RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) iverside County supervisors are taking up three items Tuesday that hit the Coachella Valley: new vacation rental rules, results from this year’s fireworks crackdown, and $325,000 for a Mecca sports park.
Vacation Rentals
Supervisors are scheduled to vote on a rewrite of the county’s short-term rental rules. Adopting it would end a freeze on new rental permits in Thousand Palms and B Bar H Ranch that started in March 2025.
The freeze only blocked new permits. Existing rentals kept operating and could renew.
In B Bar H Ranch, 37 of 328 homes hold rental certificates — 11.28%, according to a county staff report. Thousand Palms sits at 2.7%…