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El Dorado County has moved to the ORANGE Tier - How Does that Impact Travel for VHRs?
The State of California has advised that Short Term Rentals, otherwise known as Vacation Home Rentals or VHRs, reserva-tions are permitted from in-state travelers. Non-essential out-of-state travelers can reserve if it is for at least the minimum quarantine period (10 days) and they can quarantine at the property during theminimus of the first 10 days. Californians are advised not to travel further than 120 miles from home.
Useful Links for California Guidance:
Stay at home except for essential travel
California State Industry-Guidance Hotels
Travel Guidance for Californians
Due to the COVID Pandemic, Planning Services have closed the counter to the Public for Walk-in assistnace. Appointments are available for VHR inquiries in the MORNING ONLY. You can self-schedule an appointment HERE.
If you have any questions pertaining to VHR application submitions please feel free to email staff at VHRPermits@edcgov.us.
VHR Ordinance Update and Status on Available Permits for the Basin
On December 2, 2020 the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors voted to approve amendments to the Vacation Home Rental Ordinance. One of the changes was to limit the number of permits in the Tahoe Basin portion of the County to 900 permits. This website will be revised weekly to provide up-to-date information to the public with the number of available permits. As of Friday, April 9th, there are approximately 90 available permits.
****If you have already submitted a VHR permit and it is in Process, it is being counted in the total permits. You do not need to contact us to verify that your application has been counted towards the 900 cap.
Please also note that Staff is approximately 4 weeks behind in reviewing New Applications and Renewal Applications due to the extreme volume of permits being submitted and customer service inquiries. Thank you for your patience.
Once the application is deemed complete by staff applicants will be notified on how to schedule the required fire inspction. Applicants have 60 days to complete the fire inspection or their application will be denied.
A copy of the updated Ordinance is posted below as well as the guidance for Hotels, Lodging and Short Term Rentals.
VHR Ordinance adopted 12.2.2020.pdf
On May 13, 2020, District 5 Supervisor Sue Novasel held a Virtual Town Hall to provide information on options for limiting the number and density of Vacation Home Rentals in the Tahoe Basin, focusing on the guidelines from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA).
A second Tahoe VHR Virtual Town Hall was held June 10, 2020 via ZOOM.
The State issued guidelines for short-term rentals for individual, which can be found here: guidance-hotels-lodging-rentals--en.pdf VHR operators may rent as long as they have a safety plan in place which mirrors the State guidelines. Operators need no further approval from the County.
However, the statewide ban on nonessential travel remains in place. Therefore, the hope is that people will recreate and rent in their local areas and not travel across the summit into the Tahoe basin if they do not live there.
We hope people will continue to heed all the public health advice wherever they go, traveling only with household members, wearing face coverings when in public, properly washing their hands, and maintaining at least a six-foot distance from others.