Charlotte-area leaders appear limited in what they can do to regulate residential swimming pool rentals after a fatal weekend shooting at a pool party.
Police said a 20-year-old man was killed and four other people were wounded in a shooting Sunday at a “party gone wrong” in north Charlotte. A man who rents a room in the house where the shooting happened told The Charlotte Observer the property owner rents the home’s pool out online.
Mecklenburg County previously barred residents from renting out residential pools by the hour, an increasingly popular practice nationwide. But a change in state law last year forced the county to roll back its regulations…