No hotel, motel, or extended stay hotel/motel shall be constructed, altered, or used without complying with the following regulations:

(1)

The common areas and unoccupied rooms of any hotel, motel, and extended stay hotel are subject to inspection by the City of Gladstone Fire/EMS, Police, and the community development departments if there is reasonable cause to suspect that such area or room is being used for criminal activity, a homeless shelter, housing and treatment for mental illness/behavioral health and housing and treatment for alcohol and drug addiction, and transitional housing or in violation of this chapter or condition of zoning.

(2)

Hotels, motels and extended stay hotels operate for the benefit of travelers and transient parties conducting legitimate business or recreation in the surrounding area. No hotel, motel, or extended stay hotel may be used as transitional housing, a homeless shelter, housing and treatment for mental illness/behavioral health and housing and treatment for alcohol and drug addiction.

(3)

No hotel or motel may be converted to be and operated as an extended stay hotel.

(4)

No owner, operator, keeper, proprietor, or employee of a hotel, motel, or extended stay hotel shall provide lodging at an hourly rate.

(5)

Each hotel, motel, or extended stay hotel shall have a minimum of 60 rooms.

(6)

No hotel or motel located within the City shall allow any person to occupy such hotel or motel for more than 30 consecutive days, nor more than 60 days during a 180 day period. No guest residing for 30 consecutive days shall begin a new rental agreement with the hotel or motel without a two week (14) day vacancy between stays. Exceptions to this condition include circumstances where a home is uninhabitable and is being repaired or rebuilt due to fire, flood, or a situation similar in nature.

(Ord. No. 4.600, § 1, 6-27-2022)