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No. The City of Monterey’s Code Compliance page, checked 2026-09-20, states that any house rental of less than 30 days is illegal in Monterey, names the ordinance at Monterey City Code section 22-19.5, and says the City actively enforces it. There is no application, licence, cap or waiting list published. A stay of 30 days or more is a different use under that rule and a separate conversation. Before you conclude either way, confirm the parcel really is inside city limits — a Monterey mailing address is not proof.

Also no, in the residential district. The City’s short-term rental page, checked 2026-09-20, states that no home or subordinate unit may be rented for less than 30 consecutive days in the residential district, and publishes no permit or exception process. Confirm which district the parcel is in, and confirm it is in the city at all: many homes with a Carmel address sit in unincorporated Monterey County, where the County’s own licence framework applies instead.

Three places, on the sources checked 2026-09-20. Pacific Grove is accepting new STR licence applications first-come, first-serve, but only for property in its Coastal or Commercial areas, under a 250 city-wide cap. The City of Santa Cruz offers 250 owner-occupied or hosted permits first come, first served, while stating it will not issue new non-hosted permits. Capitola allows vacation rentals only inside its Vacation Rental Use overlay district. Unincorporated Santa Cruz County and unincorporated Monterey County both run permit frameworks with their own limits. Whether headroom exists for your parcel today is a question for that authority.

It adds a layer. In a December 6, 2016 letter to coastal planning directors, the California Coastal Commission wrote that vacation rental regulation in the coastal zone must occur within a local coastal program or be authorised by a coastal development permit, that it constitutes development to which the Coastal Act and LCPs must apply, and that it does not believe regulation outside that context, including outright bans through other local processes, is legally enforceable in the coastal zone. That is guidance about how local programs get certified. It is not a permit, it does not override a city’s published position, and no owner should read it as permission.

No. CC&Rs, condominium rules, leases, deed restrictions and insurance conditions are private controls and can be stricter than any public rule. Around this bay that includes gated community documents, beach-adjacent condominium rules and Carmel-area deed restrictions. Read them and get any determination in writing before the home is marketed.

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