The purpose and intent of the Hotel Overlay District is to provide opportunities within the City of Southgate for the development of medium-density hotels where such uses are desirable based on visibility from Interstate 75. It is further intended that accessory uses typically located with hotels shall also be permitted to develop.

(Ord. 08-871. Passed 8-20-08.)

   (a)   The Hotel Overlay District shall encompass all parcels located within the Hotel Overlay District boundaries as defined on the City of Southgate Zoning Map.

   (b)   The provisions of this Overlay District shall supplement the underlying zoning district in which a property is located. The standards prescribed herein shall control the overall development in this Overlay District. Where there may exist any conflict between the provisions of this chapter and those of the underlying zoning district, the provisions of this chapter shall prevail. This chapter shall not change the status of any existing use, lot, or structure established prior to the effective date of this chapter.

(Ord. 08-871. Passed 8-20-08.)

   (a)   “Extended stay hotel” means any structure consisting of one or more buildings, with more than five specific dwelling units with provisions for living, and contain kitchen facilities for food preparation including, but not limited to, refrigerators, stoves, and ovens, sanitation, separate bathroom and kitchen sink, and sleeping in each unit, that is specifically constructed, kept, used, maintained, advertised, and held out to the public to be a place where temporary residence is offered for pay to persons, for a maximum stay of six months within the dwelling units of the structure.

   (b)   “Hotel” means a building or part of a building that is a franchise from a nationally recognized chain, with a common entrance, in which the dwelling units or rooming units are used primarily for transient occupancy, and in which one or more of the following services are offered: maid service, furnishing of linens, telephone, secretarial or desk service and bellboy service. A hotel may include a restaurant or cocktail lounge, public banquet halls, ballrooms or meeting rooms.

   (c)   “Motel” means a series of attached, semidetached or detached rental units containing a bedroom, bathroom and closet space. Units shall provide for overnight lodging, are offered to the public for compensation and shall cater primarily to the public traveling by motor vehicle.

(Ord. 08-871. Passed 8-20-08.)

   (a)   Hotels and motels.

   (b)   Extended stay hotels.

   (c)   Accessory uses typically developed with hotels such as retail stores, sit-down restaurants, meeting rooms, conference rooms, banquet halls, exhibit halls, and personal service establishments which serve the business, personal, and convenience needs of the hotel guests and are completely enclosed within the principal use.

(Ord. 08-871. Passed 8-20-08.)

   (a)   The minimum setback requirements for the principal use shall be as required by the C-2, General Business District.

   (b)   The maximum height shall be 40 feet, with no maximum story requirement.

   (c)   Off-street parking shall be provided and shall be laid out as provided in this section and in Chapter 1292.

   (d)   Off-street parking may be located in a front yard and in an exterior side yard to a point 20 feet from the street right-of-way line. Off-street parking may be located in a rear yard and in an interior side yard, except when these yards abut a Residential District. No off-street parking shall be permitted within the minimum required setback.

   (e)   Whenever off-street parking is required to be set back from a property line, the set back shall be landscaped and all landscaping shall be maintained in a living, growing condition, neat and orderly in appearance.

   (f)   The intensity of all exterior lighting shall be of a type that shall not present a potential safety hazard to traffic on adjoining streets, nor shall any such lighting adversely impact abutting properties. All lighting shall be shielded and directed downward. Properties adjacent to residential uses shall install dimmers to reduce parking lot lighting from dusk to dawn.

   (g)   All development within the Hotel Overlay District shall be required to submit a site plan to be reviewed and approved by the Building Department, planning consultants, and the Planning Commission.

   (h)   All uses permitted in Section 1289.02 shall be subject to all other applicable requirements of this Zoning Code relating to site plan review, improvement guarantees, landscape planting standards, corner clearance, screens, walls, earth berms, exterior building wall materials, signs, and the like.

(Ord. 08-871. Passed 8-20-08.)

   (a)   Each unit shall be a minimum of 275 square feet in area, exclusive of bathroom, closet, or balcony space.

   (b)   No occupant shall be permitted to stay in any unit of an extended stay hotel or extended stay motel in excess of six months each calendar year.

   (c)   Occupancy limits shall be established for each unit based on available sleeping space and fire safety to be approved by the Fire Marshall for extended stay temporary residence purposes.

   (d)   Daily or weekly services for each dwelling unit of linen change, towel change, soap change, and general clean-up shall be provided.

   (e)   A registration lobby staffed on a 24 hour daily basis shall be provided.

   (f)   A minimum of six secured parking spaces shall be developed immediately adjacent to the loading/unloading zone for resident use.

(Ord. 08-871. Passed 8-20-08.)

   (a)   No person owning, controlling, managing, or having charge of any hotel, extended stay hotel, or motel within the City shall allow or permit an hourly charge for any room within said establishment.

   (b)   No person owning, controlling, managing, or having charge of any hotel, extended stay hotel, or motel within the City shall allow or permit any room or rooms within said establishment to be rented more than twice in any 24-hour period commencing at 12:01 a.m.

(Ord. 08-871. Passed 8-20-08.)