Woodbury has no host-presence or local-contact requirement for short-term rentals because STRs are not an allowed use. There is no hosted-vs-unhosted distinction to regulate. The closest concept in city policy is the owner-occupancy that exempts a home from rental licensing altogether.
Cities that allow STRs often require the host to be on-site, or to name a 24/7 local contact. Woodbury has neither, because it does not permit sub-30-day non-primary rentals in the first place — there is no hosted/unhosted framework to apply. The city's residence-based policy works in two directions instead. On one side, a home occupied by the owner and/or qualifying relatives meeting the Chapter 24 'family' definition is exempt from rental licensing, so an owner living in their own home needs no license and faces no host-presence rule. On the other side, a property let to tenants for 30 days or more requires a rental license, but the owner is not required to live on-site; the owner instead carries responsibility for self-certifying property-maintenance compliance and for the property's condition and conduct. For licensed long-term rentals, the owner or a designee is the point of accountability the city expects, but this is a maintenance-and-licensing duty, not a guest-stay host-presence mandate. Anyone seeking to operate a hosted short-stay arrangement should confirm with Code Enforcement (651-414-3414) that the activity is not a prohibited transient rental.
No violation arises from host presence or absence as such, because the regulated activity (a conforming STR) does not exist in Woodbury. Operating a transient short-stay rental — hosted or unhosted — is itself the violation, abatable through code enforcement. Failing to maintain a licensed long-term rental can lead to rental-license consequences.
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