Moorpark, CA Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Permits (2026)
Short-term rental permit rules in Moorpark, CA, also called Airbnb permits, vacation rental licenses, or STR registration, list the application steps, fees, and operating requirements for hosting.
Key Facts
- Residential/ag/OS zones
- Not permitted in all 9 zones (Table 17.20.050 Item 12)
- Mixed-use zones
- Also not permitted, Table 17.20.070 Item 8
- Definition threshold
- Occupancy of 30 consecutive days or less
- Permit available
- None; no AP, CUP or ZC track exists
- Related rule
- ADUs/2-unit homes separately barred <30-day rentals, § 17.28.020(H)
Summary
Moorpark's zoning code bars residential short-term rental units outright: Table 17.20.050, Item 12, marks every open-space, agricultural, residential and special-purpose zone 'Not permitted,' and Table 17.20.070 does the same for every mixed-use zone. No permit, license or zoning clearance can authorize one.
"Residential short-term rental unit" means all or any portion of a residential dwelling unit (detached or attached), or an accessory building or guest house, rented intermittently for occupancy for residential purposes for periods of 30 consecutive calendar days or less, counting portions of calendar days as full days. ... Zones O-S A-E R-A R-E R-L R-1 R-2 R-3 TPD ... 12. Residential short-term rental units — — — — — — — — —
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4978490; v10 updated 2026-07-01).
Full Breakdown
070, the parallel table for the city's mixed-use zones, repeats the identical dash across all its zones at Item 8. Together the two tables mean there is no zone in Moorpark, residential, agricultural, open-space or mixed-use, where a rental of 30 days or less is a zoning-compliant use; unlike the administrative-permit or conditional-use-permit items elsewhere in the same tables, a short-term rental cannot be brought into compliance through any discretionary entitlement, variance or zoning clearance, because the code offers none. 020(H), which independently bars renting those specific units short-term.
Violations & Fines
A property advertised or rented for 30 days or less without an underlying long-term lease is an unpermitted use citable as a zoning code violation. The community development director can pursue the code's standard nuisance-abatement and administrative-citation remedies for unpermitted uses, and because no permit exists to hold, revoke or appeal, the sole compliance path is to stop the short-term rental activity or convert to leases longer than 30 days.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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