The County incorporated new vacation rental rules into the updated Los Osos Community Plan and into County regulations. These were approved by the Coastal Commission in 2022 and the new regulations are now in effect. They include a cap on the number of vacation rentals as well as stipulations about how close they can be to one another.

Read board-adopted code (as of September 17, 2022).

Read this excellent article in the Estero Bay News by Neil Farrell for more information plus background on the long process to get these rules adopted.