Long Beach will begin enforcing its short-term rental policy, which regulates which properties can be listed on sites like Airbnb, later this month.
The City Council first approved a short-term rental ordinance in June, and then voted to amend it in December. But to give property owners time to adjust and come into compliance with the law, officials held off on enforcing it. That’s set to change, though, on April 22.
Long Beach’s law allows property owners to rent out their own primary residences as short-term rentals on an unlimited basis if the owners are present during guests’ stays. It also allows those owners to rent out their homes for up to 90 days per year when they will not be present.
Folks who want to rent out a property that is not their primary residence can do so year-round, but all short-term rentals must have a local contact available on a 24/7 basis that can respond to complaints within one hour. Owners are limited to offering only one property where they don’t live as a short-term rental, and Long Beach capped the total number of those secondary-property listings to 800 citywide.
All short-term rental properties must be registered with the city. As of April 22, all listings that are not registered will be removed from Airbnb and other sites.
The enforcement will go into effect even as Long Beach’s regulations don’t yet apply to the whole city.
The California Coastal Commission still must approve the city’s ordinance before it can be implemented in Long Beach’s coastal zone; the state commission has until April 14, 2022, to approve the law. Because of that delay, property owners in Long Beach’s coastal zone can’t yet register with the city, but folks who are interested in offering short-term rentals can be placed on a waiting list to register once the California Coastal Commission weighs in.
So far, Long Beach has received 123 applications for people to rent out their own homes and 87 applications to rent out properties where the owner doesn’t reside, according to a memo the city’s development services director, Oscar Orci, wrote this week.
Most of those applications — 84 of the primary residences and 45 of the secondary properties — have been approved, while 11 of the primary residence applications and one of the applications for a secondary property have been denied. The rest are still pending.
Information on Long Beach’s short-term rental program: longbeach.gov/lbds/enforcement/strs.
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