This section creates the Hotel Overlay District which shall be an overlay district supplementing, and cumulative to, the development regulations of the underlying zoning district. Designation of any property as part of a Hotel Overlay District does not change the effective land use plan designation or the underlying zoning district. These provisions are intended to supplement underlying zoning regulations in order to support the stated purpose of the overlay district, and shall control in the event of conflict.

(Ord. No. 2010-20, § 2(Exh. A), 9-14-10)

(A)

Purpose. The Hotel Overlay District is designed to apply where coordination is needed between separately developed projects to address issues such as infrastructure, environmental protection, signage, pedestrian movement, parking, access, or employment activities, to facilitate the provision of hotel and ancillary service areas supporting city tourism as deemed appropriate by the city commission. The city commission, in its implementation of these districts, seeks to provide safety measures and controls for the protection and convenience of out-of-town travelers, unfamiliar with the city.

(B)

Encouraged development components. In order to achieve high-quality development and promote innovative design concepts and flexibility, the following components shall be encouraged within the Hotel Overlay District:

(1)

The arrangement of uses and structures designed to encourage compatible mixed-use and multiuse developments within a master-planned style of environment, regardless of the existence of multiple site ownerships or separately developed lots.

(2)

The provision for adequate transportation systems to serve the development including sufficient rights-of-way, street extensions, shared access, cross access, internal circulation, capacity improvements, and pedestrian circulation.

(3)

The provision of shared infrastructure for parking and stormwater management facilities as well as public utilities.

(4)

The provision of coordinated landscaping, parking facilities, pedestrian amenities, and signage controls.

(Ord. No. 2010-20, § 2(Exh. A), 9-14-10)

(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)

(A)

On-site location of required parking spaces. Parking spaces for all uses or structures which are provided to satisfy the schedule of off-street parking and other applicable provisions shall be located on the same lot as the principal use or structure they are intended to serve, except as provided in this section.

(B)

Off-site location of required parking spaces. Establishment of required parking facilities on off-site properties may be permitted as follows:

(1)

Two (2) or more abutting properties within the Hotel Overlay District may enter into a cross-access agreement with each other providing for the shared use of excess parking pursuant to section 265-80 (Off-site parking).

(C)

Number of required parking spaces. The city commission may authorize a different quantity of off-street parking spaces than required in article 265 as being sufficient for the uses in the overlay district, based upon an engineer's parking study, after considering the recommendation of the community development director.

(Ord. No. 2010-20, § 2(Exh. A), 9-14-10)

(A)

Generally. Signage shall meet all the requirements of article 505, Sign Regulations, based on the underlying zoning district and use, except as provided in this section. In the event of conflict between this section and article 505, this section shall prevail.

(1)

In the event a commercial use is designed to front both the hotels and Griffin Road or Stirling Road, article 505 may be applied to allow individual signage on both sides of the commercial building.

(B)

Shared district monument sign. The properties within the Hotel Overlay District shall provide one (1) shared district monument sign, subject to the requirements of the underlying sign regulations as modified in this section:

(1)

The shared district monument sign shall be located on a property adjacent to Griffin Road or Stirling Road, as applicable, and shall be substituted for a monument sign which would otherwise be permitted on that property. This does not preclude the placement of additional signage, identifying the Griffin Road or Stirling Road property only, if additional signage would be otherwise permitted under the sign regulations of article 505.

(2)

The shared district monument sign shall meet the requirements of subsection 505-140(C) (Principal arterial design standards) except that the shared district monument sign is permitted to be seventy-eight (78) square feet in area and eight (8) feet in height.

(3)

The city commission may approve a larger monument sign than that permitted in this section if it determines that the additional area is necessary to legibly identify all the shared overlay district uses on the sign.

(4)

The location, design, and size of the shared district monument sign shall be approved at the time application for the Hotel Overlay District is made.

(5)

Only hotels and tourist supportive services, as defined in section 315-30(A)(2), may have signage on the shared district monument sign.

(C)

Shared district pole sign. If any property within the Hotel Overlay District is located within one thousand (1,000) feet of Interstate 95, a single pole sign shall be permitted in the district, which pole sign shall be a shared district pole sign.

(1)

The shared district pole sign shall identify every use within the designated Hotel Overlay District which:

(a)

Has greater than sixty thousand (60,000) square feet of enclosed area under roof;

(b)

Has no other existing pole sign identification within the Hotel Overlay District; and

(c)

Is a hotel or a tourist supportive service as defined in section 315-30(A)(2).

(2)

The shared district pole sign shall not exceed a height of fifty (50) feet or twenty-five (25) feet above the height of the elevation of the abutting interstate highway, whichever is less, and fifty (50) square feet in area per eligible advertised use.

(3)

No use shall be advertised on more than one (1) pole sign within the overlay district.

(4)

The city commission may approve a maximum size or height of this pole sign larger than that permitted in this section, if it determines that the additional area or height is necessary to legibly identify all the eligible shared overlay district uses on the sign.

(5)

No new pole signs except a single shared district pole sign as permitted above shall be permitted within the overlay district.

(6)

Legal pole signs existing at the date of designation as a Hotel Overlay District shall become nonconforming signs with regard to the requirements of this overlay district, and shall be subject to the nonconforming sign provisions of section 505-180, unless one (1) such sign is modified and utilized as the sole shared pole sign for the overlay district.

(7)

A shared district pole sign may be a digital sign in accordance with the requirements of subsection 505-140(B).

(Ord. No. 2010-20, § 2(Exh. A), 9-14-10; Ord. No. 2010-025, § 5, 11-23-10; Ord. No. 2013-001, § 4, 2-26-13)

(A)

Section 110-50 of the Land Development Code, which provides distance separation requirements for alcoholic beverage establishments, shall not apply to establishments located on the premises of a hotel within a Hotel Overlay district.

(Ord. No. 2010-025, § 5, 11-23-10)