For the Bed & Breakfast Home use, yes — Guilford County's UDO requires the bed-and-breakfast to be the permanent residence of the owner or manager. The UDO does not impose a primary-residence rule on ordinary whole-house short-term rentals.
Guilford County's UDO ties its hosted lodging use to owner or manager residency. Section 5.9.A states the bed-and-breakfast "must be the permanent residence of the owner or the manager of the business, operating as a home occupation." That is a genuine primary-residence requirement for that use. The UDO does not, however, impose a general primary-residence-only mandate on non-hosted, whole-house short-term rentals; under NC case law (e.g., Schroeder v. City of Wilmington) and NC Gen. Stat. 160D-1207, counties regulate STRs mainly through zoning-district lodging standards rather than blanket owner-occupancy caps. Confirm your parcel's zoning district before relying on either path.
Running a bed-and-breakfast where the owner or manager does not permanently reside violates UDO Sec. 5.9.A and is enforceable as a zoning violation by Guilford County Planning & Development.
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