Charlotte does not formally distinguish host-occupied from whole-home short-term rentals in the UDO, and NC court rulings limit cities from imposing primary-residence requirements. Host presence is therefore voluntary, not regulated.
Following Schroeder v. City of Wilmington (NC Court of Appeals, 2021), North Carolina courts have struck down municipal STR rules that effectively ban whole-home rentals through registration-based primary-residence tests. Charlotte's UDO permits short-term lodging in residential districts subject to use standards but does not classify hosts by on-site presence. A host renting a spare room while living in the home faces the same UDO use-permission analysis as one renting an empty house, though HOA covenants may impose tighter rules privately. The city instead enforces nuisance, parking, and noise rules uniformly regardless of host presence.
There is no host-presence violation; complaints typically focus on noise, parking, or trash, which the city pursues under existing chapters regardless of whether the host is on-site.
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