Unincorporated Lane County imposes no blanket primary-residence-only rule for short-term rentals, but rural residential ADUs approved under SB 391 / Ordinance 23-05 are barred from vacation occupancy, effectively restricting many rural units to owner or long-term use.
There is no general owner-occupancy mandate on stand-alone dwellings in the unincorporated county. The key restriction is on ADUs: Lane County's rural-residential ADU pathway under SB 391, adopted by Ordinance 23-05 (August 29, 2023), prohibits vacation occupancy and requires recording a restrictive covenant that the ADU will not be used for vacation occupancy. So an ADU cannot be short-term rented at all, while a primary dwelling generally can be, subject to zoning and tax registration. Incorporated cities may separately impose primary-residence or hosted-only STR rules.
Renting a covenant-restricted rural ADU as a vacation unit violates the recorded covenant and the land-use approval, subject to land-use enforcement and covenant remedies.
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Lane County allows residential backyard composting and actively promotes it through its Waste Management program. There is no compost permit for home use, bu...
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Lane County has no ordinance regulating, requiring, or banning artificial turf for residential landscaping. Ground-cover choice is unregulated on ordinary lo...
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Lane County does not require homeowners to plant native species, and the noxious-vegetation code exempts nothing based on native status. In forest and ripari...
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Rainwater harvesting is legal statewide. ORS 537.141 exempts collecting precipitation from an artificial impervious surface, like a rooftop, from Oregon's wa...
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Oregon has no statewide homeowner lawn-watering ban, and Lane County sets no county-wide outdoor-watering schedule. Restrictions come from your local water u...
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Lane Code 9.057.574 defines weeds more than ten inches high as "noxious vegetation," along with poison oak or ivy, tansy ragwort, thistle, and encroaching bl...
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