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San diego county STR
Hi guys, looking at the latest news on San Diego county's ordinance regarding STR. I hear they are only approving license's up to 1% of the total number of dwelling units of the entire county. I believe less than 10,000. Does anyone know the process of applying for a license and how difficult these changes have made it to get approved for one? Or what is the process/likeliness of being approved? Is it impossible to even bother there anymore?
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The ordinance is not county wide. It is for the city of San Diego. You can probably google it, but from memory I will cover the key aspects:
- 1% of units, but Mission Beach is excluded from the Quota
- Good actors have priority. This implies that if you do not have an existing STR it will be virtually impossible to get one because as @Bruce Woodruff indicated there is already a lot of STRs. Assuming that virtually all of the existing STRs get priority, it will leave few, in any, of the quota for new STR units.
- Only 1 STR allowed. I need to read the text to be sure, but I have been interpreting this a per person such that a married couple could have 2. I do need to verify this as we currently have 3, but our intent is to convert one to 30+ day furnished rental. I do not know what we will do if wife and I can only have 1 between the two of us (a marriage penalty would seem unfair).
- It is planned to go into effect in July.
I am sure I missed some item that is important to someone, but suspect I hit the items that would matter to most people.
Good luck