Regulated by San Luis Obispo County (unincorporated). Oceano is unincorporated and sits in the County’s non-coastal zone, so the route is an Inland Vacation Rental Clearance plus a business licence and a Transient Occupancy Tax certificate. One restriction rules out a lot of properties here and is worth checking before you plan anything: a vacation rental is not permitted in an accessory dwelling unit, a guesthouse, or agricultural worker housing. If the space you had in mind is an ADU, the answer is no regardless of anything else.
9% county Transient Occupancy Tax plus 1.5% Tourism Marketing District, and a further 2% Tourism Business Improvement District in some areas.
New permits are available in Oceano, so you can start from scratch here — but if you already hold one, switching is the faster route. Your permit stays in your name either way. How switching works.
Seven minutes from us and genuinely open, which makes Oceano one of the more interesting south-county markets — dunes access, lower entry prices than Pismo, and county permitting rather than a city freeze.
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Permit rules and tax rates change. Confirm current requirements with San Luis Obispo County (unincorporated).