Where is a rooming or boarding house allowed in Santa Rosa?

Find your lot's zone on the city zoning map, then read its row. Every status below was read from the Santa Rosa Municipal Code use tables (read October 2026). Base zones only. General information, not legal advice — check with the city before you apply.

Santa Rosa's code calls this use “Rooming or boarding house”. Each row links to the use table it comes from. A zone marked “see note” has a condition in the code, for example upper floors only or a larger lot.

MH.

• Single Room Occupancy Facility (8) [20-42.164]: S3 RR -, R-1 MUP, R-2 MUP, R-3 MUP, MH -, TV-R MUP; S4 CO -, CN -, CG CUP, CV -, CMU MUP, SMU MUP, MMU MUP, NMU MUP, CSC CUP, TV-M -. 'Rooming or boarding, accessory' (S3): P in RR, R-1, R-2, R-3, TV-R. Organizational house (dormitory, sorority, monastery): S3 MUP in RR..R-3, TV-R.
• Not covered here: Planned Development (PD) zones, specific plan areas and combining districts (e.g. -SH Senior Housing, 20-28.080) are not in the packet. Several notes give different rights inside Planned Developments and Priority Development Areas; these are carried in the notes but not decided here.; Division 7 land-use definitions, 20-42.040 (animal keeping), 20-42.190 (emergency shelter), 20-42.230, 20-42.050, 20-42.080, 20-42.164 are cited by the tables but NOT in the packet.. Overlay zones and specific plans can also change the answer.

• Single-family home
• Duplex
• Bed and breakfast
• Kennel
• Private school