The purpose of the H-1 Hotel District is to provide medium-density hotel areas for general application in the city where such uses are desirable and where public facilities are available to meet their needs.

(a)

Principal and conditional uses. The following chart lists those uses permitted within the H-1 Hotel District. Those uses and structures in the district shall be permitted as either principal uses indicated by a "P" or as conditional uses indicated by a "C." Uses and structures indicated by an "X" shall be prohibited in the district. No uses or structures other than as specified shall be permitted.

(b)

Accessory uses and structures. Uses and structures which are customarily accessory and clearly incidental and subordinate to principal uses and structures, including but not limited to:

(1)

Within the H-1 Hotel District, establishments for sale of gifts, clothing, drugs, photographic supplies, newspapers, and magazines and convenience goods, eating and drinking establishments and professional and personal service establishments; provided that such uses are accessory to hotels having fifty (50) or more dwelling or lodging units for sale or for rent; and provided further, that all such establishments shall be designed and scaled only to meet the requirements of occupants and their guests; and provided also that there shall be no evidence of the existence of such establishments from outside the property line; and provided finally that the floor area occupied by such establishments shall not exceed twenty (20) percent of the floor area of the hotel or motel.

(Ord. No. 2299, 11-8-94; Ord. No. 2427, 10-29-96; Ord. No. 2513, 10-27-98; Ord. No. 2968, 1-23-07; Ord. No. 3046, 8-26-08; Ord. No. 3102, 9-8-09; Ord. No. 3403, 4-21-15; Ord. No. 3514, 7-11-17; Ord. No. 3661, 5-18-21)

(a)

The following chart lists the requirements within the H-1 Hotel District for minimum lot area, width, yard spacing, maximum lot coverage and maximum lodging unit density for all uses and structures.

(9)

For each dwelling unit contained in a combination development the number of allowed lodging units shall be reduced by two (2).

*Where applicable, newly created corner lots must also adhere to section 4.4(c) of the Subdivision Ordinance, requiring lot width on certain corner lots.

(b)

Front and side-yard setbacks adjacent to a street may be reduced in accordance with the provisions of Part H of Article 2.

(Ord. No. 1945, 2-12-90; Ord. No. 3384, 12-2-14)

When a zoning lot within a H-1 Hotel District adjoins a residential or apartment district without an intervening street, alley or body of water over twenty-five (25) feet in width, a fifteen-foot minimum yard shall be required along all lot lines adjoining the residential or apartment district. Category IV landscape screening shall be required within the yard area. No other uses or structures shall be permitted in such yards.

(a)

Where a zoning lot within the H-1 Hotel District adjoins the side or rear yard of a zoning lot in a residential or apartment district without an intervening street or alley over twenty-five (25) feet in width or body of water over fifty (50) feet in width, the following maximum height regulations shall apply on that portion of the H-1 zoning lot within one hundred (100) feet of the adjoining residential or apartment district.

(1)

When adjacent to a Residential District, the maximum height shall be thirty-five (35) feet.

(2)

When adjacent to A-12 or A-18 Apartment District, the maximum height shall be thirty-five (35) feet.

(3)

When adjacent to A-24 Apartment District, the maximum height shall be forty-five (45) feet.

(4)

When adjacent to A-36 Apartment District, the maximum height shall be one hundred twenty (120) feet.

(b)

Except as specified in item (a) hereinabove, there shall be no maximum height regulations in the H-1 Hotel District.

(c)

Notwithstanding the above, no building or other structure shall exceed the height limit established by section 202(b) regarding air navigation.

(Ord. No. 1786, 6-13-88)

(a)

Within the H-1 Hotel District, the same regulations that apply in the Residential Districts and the Apartment Districts shall apply, except as follows:

(1)

For each twenty (20) feet of frontage and for each forty (40) feet of lot line adjoining a street, but not constituting frontage, not more than one (1) sign and not more than forty (40) square feet of signage shall be permitted; provided, however, that no establishment shall have more than four (4) signs, of which one (1) may be a freestanding sign; and provided further, that no establishment having a frontage of less than one hundred (100) feet shall have a freestanding sign. No establishment having a frontage of at least one hundred (100) feet but less than or equal to two hundred (200) feet shall have a freestanding sign exceeding thirty-two (32) square feet in area per face, and no establishment having a frontage of more than two hundred (200) feet shall have a freestanding sign exceeding seventy-five (75) square feet in area per face. No freestanding sign shall exceed two (2) faces, and no sign of any other type shall exceed one hundred fifty (150) square feet in area. Any establishment or property having less frontage or lot line adjoining a street than required above may have one (1) sign not exceeding thirty (30) square feet in area.

(2)

Signs located on property for sale, lease or rent shall be permitted, provided that no such sign shall exceed thirty-two (32) square feet in area, that not more than two (2) such signs shall be erected for each one hundred (100) feet of lot line adjoining the street, and that not more than four (4) such signs shall be erected on any property. Any property having lot line adjoining a street may have one (1) sign not exceeding thirty-two (32) square feet of surface area.

(b)

Signage allowances for uses other than hotels and motels shall be the same as in the most restrictive district in which the use is permitted as a principal use.

(Ord. No. 3442, 4-19-16)

Parking shall be required for all uses and structures permitted in the H-1 Hotel District in accordance with section 203.