Lynwood has no host-presence rule for short-term rentals because STRs are not permitted. The only residential lodging use, a bed and breakfast, requires the operator to live on or next to the property.
The Lynwood Municipal Code contains no hosted-versus-unhosted STR distinction, since short-term rentals are not an authorized use in any zone. The closest on-site requirement appears in the Chapter 25 definition of bed and breakfast, which permits rooms and meals for short-term stays only where the operator lives on the premises or adjacent premises. That use is limited to R-3 by conditional use permit and to certain commercial zones. For hotels and motels, Section 3-31 requires on-site management and continuous operational oversight, but those are commercial conditional uses, not homes. No provision lets an ordinary residence be rented to overnight guests whether or not a host is present, so there is no hosted-STR allowance to rely on.
Transient rental of a residence is a zoning violation regardless of host presence; bed and breakfast operation without the required on-site operator breaches its use definition and CUP.
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