Thank You Brenda Mayette for inspiring this post with your questions!
STRO's = Short-term Residential Occupancy Dwellings
This affects residential properties in the City of San Diego, not the County, so areas like Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Santee, that do not fall within the City of San Diego jurisdiction are so far exempt. In other words if you write San Diego on a letter to mail it, that property is subject to it.
For "Vacation Rentals" in the City San Diego (STRO's) located in the City of San Diego and rented out to Transient Guests for less than one month, beginning October 3, 2022 - must apply for and obtain a Transient Occupancy Registration Certificate.
They start enforcing this law in May 2023 though and no one knows how they will go about enforcing it in 2023 since it's so new and the industry so massive.
Also, if people are operating STRO's under the radar, they are at risk but probably harder to catch. I'm sure many who either apply and are denied or do not apply at all will take their chances. Others will apply and get licenses so in February 2023 it's business as usual and you should be fine.
We're taking bookings at our STRO confidently through May 2023 and then pausing bookings beyond until we sort out our STRO dwelling.
The official date of implementation is May 1, 2023.
We're taking bookings at our STRO confidently through May 2023 and then pausing bookings beyond until we sort out our STRO dwelling.
The official date of implementation is May 1, 2023.
A summary of what owners are applying for between Oct - Dec 2022
- Tier 1 Licenses are required for owners that share their dwelling partially or simply only rent it completely out 20 days or less per year and there are no license availability limits. You may live on or offsite.
- Tier 2 for permanent resident hosts that live on site at least 275 days per year and only rent out rooms. You may live offsite no more than 90 days per year and there are no license availability limits. The 90 days per year you live off site, hosts can rent the entire house. Duplexes and pre-2017 permitted ADU's qualify if an owner lives in one dwelling and STRO's the second unit.
Triplexes and larger ones require additional owner-occupied hosts. - Tier 3 Licenses (the golden goose) Licenses are required for owners that live off site more than 20 days per year. Limited licenses to 1% of the total dwellings in The City of San Diego except Mission Beach which has its own limits separately.
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Additional Resources: https://www.sandiego.gov/treasurer/short-term-residential-occupancy
Photo 1 by Frans van Heerden: https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-house-near-body-of-water-1438834
Photo 2 by Hoàng Chương: https://www.pexels.com/photo/multicolored-wooden-houses-2374652
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