Board of Supervisors' Consideration of
Short Term Rentals

On August 7, 2018, the Marin County Board of Supervisors adopted the County’s first Short Term Rental Ordinance with a limited, two-year term. The ordinance requires that there be a Local Contact Person designated for the rental, and that neighbors be notified of short term rentals and provided the Local Contact Person phone number, as well as requiring that renters be provided with “good neighbor” house rules. The ordinance also provides for the establishment of a short term rental hotline for complaints, which is currently operated by Host Compliance, the County’s third party STR monitor. Overall, the main components of the existing ordinance will remain in place. While the ordinance has satisfied many of its original objectives, minor refinements are proposed to require the information about the Local Contact Person be provided at the time the application for a Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) certificate and when reporting TOT, rather than at the time a business license is issued or renewed. The Local Contact Person information will be used by the County or its compliance agent and be made available to the general public. The proposed ordinance would not have an expiration date.

A first reading of the ordinance is scheduled for the Board of Supervisors hearing on July 14, 2020 and a Board hearing on the merits of the ordinance is scheduled for July 28, 2020. The most recent draft of the proposed Ordinance is provided through the link below.

Draft Short Term Rental Ordinance

Kathleen Kilgariff
Planner
County of Marin
Community Development Agency
3501 Civic Center Drive, Suite #308
San Rafael, CA 94903
415-473-7173 

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