Residential streets are not a hotel district.
The pattern is the same from one block to the next. A house that should have a neighbor starts taking guests. The people next door deal with the traffic, the noise, and strangers at the door.
Guests at the wrong house
Listing pins are vague. Directions get copied wrong. A guest party follows a map to a private home, knocks, and tries the door. Then a different group does it again on another night. The people who live there did not list the house, and they should not have to wonder who is on the porch at midnight.
That is a safety problem. Treat an attempt to enter as one. If it is happening now, call Metro police non-emergency, 615-862-8600. Then write down the date, the time, and what the guests said they were looking for.
What a rental does to the block
- Late noise, trash left out, and cars that do not belong to the street.
- A house that sits empty through the week and fills on the weekend.
- A home removed from the neighborhood and run as lodging, whether or not a permit is taped to the fridge.
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The current rule is not stopping it
Metro’s permit page says new not-owner-occupied permits are not allowed in AR2A, R, RS, and RM. That sentence has not cleared residential streets. Permits already issued in those zones can still be renewed. Owner-occupied permits are still issued there. Listings still show up, including listings with no legible permit number. Guests still arrive.
A paper restriction that leaves the houses operating is not a ban. We are demanding a ban on every short-term rental permit in non-commercially zoned residential areas. Commercial and mixed-use zones are where this use belongs. Conservation overlays are the first place we press that demand, because an overlay does not itself prohibit the use.
What the ordinances actually do