§ 315-30. Hotel overlay district designations.

(A)

Applicability. A petition for rezoning to Hotel Overlay District may be made pursuant to the procedures of article 645 (rezoning), only for properties intended to operate and perform as a cohesive development site, regardless of the existence of multiple uses, land owners and site developers. In order to qualify for designation, the proposed area shall meet the criteria below:

(1)

Any Hotel Overlay District shall include a minimum of two (2) hotels.

(2)

Properties may be included in a Hotel Overlay District as appropriate based on proximity of location of the property to one or more hotels, and the use or access relationships between the hotels and such properties. The majority of uses within a Hotel Overlay District must be hotels or tourist supportive services. For purposes of this article, a "tourist supportive service" shall be defined as an office use, restaurant use, retail use or any other use which is determined by the community development director to provide support services to tourism.

(3)

In order to provide a unity, connection and identification with the primary street system, any area proposed for designation as a Hotel Overlay District shall include at least one (1) property adjacent to either Griffin Road or Stirling Road.

(4)

Hotels shall provide shuttle service to the airport.

(5)

Uses adjacent to hotels in the proposed district shall provide safe and convenient pedestrian paths between the hotels and such adjacent uses.

(6)

All property owners whose property is proposed for inclusion in a Hotel Overlay District must join in the application for designation.

(7)

The location, design and size of the shared monument sign, pursuant to the requirements of section 315-50, shall be submitted for approval with the application for a Hotel Overlay District.

(8)

All properties included in the district must be immediately contiguous.

(Ord. No. 2010-20, § 2(Exh. A), 9-14-10; Ord. No. 2013-001, § 4, 2-26-13)