§ 21.52.235. Hotels/motels.

A.

Intent. Long Beach strongly encourages the development and expansion of the travel industry for vacation, convention and business travel. Hotels and motels are an integral and desirable part of the travel industry. However, as hotels and motels can also be incompatible with nearby residential communities, and can also become inadequately designed permanent housing, it is necessary to provide site-by-site analysis and decisions of the nature and design of such business facilities. Also, as such uses provide a twenty-four (24) hour business environment, careful review is required to ensure compatibility with residential uses. All proposals for new hotels, motels or inns shall comply with the following conditions.

B.

Intensity. The density of rooms, intensity of facilities, and scale and design of buildings shall be harmonious with surrounding uses and development.

C.

Location. The location of the use shall be reasonably related to destinations of the traveling public, such as proximity to tourist attractions, convention facilities, business centers, the airport or cruise terminals, or medical centers and shall also be adequately buffered from any incompatible adjoining uses.

D.

Crime. The site shall not be associated with a location known to have a high concentration of reported crimes.

E.

Design. The design shall be attractive so as to present a positive image of Long Beach to the traveling public, shall be appropriate to transient occupancy without conversion to long-term occupancy (more than thirty (30) consecutive days), and, where appropriate, shall contribute to an active retail frontage by providing stores, coffee shops or convenience retail on the ground story of major streets. Enriched materials, roof overhangs, windows and doors with jams and sills, architectural protrusions and other detailing and lush landscaping are desirable in making the design attractive. All designs shall also comply with the privacy standards of Section 21.31.240.

F.

Open Space. The use shall provide not less than one hundred twenty-five (125) square feet of usable open space per guestroom, suite or unit. Not less than fifty (50) square feet of such open space shall be private usable open space according to the provisions of Section 21.31.230. For buildings of three (3) stories or more, all open space may be common open space. Areas used for health clubs or recreation rooms may be counted as common usable open space.

G.

Parking. All parking designs shall provide through-flow circulation or maneuvering space in a cul-de-sac or "hammerhead" design to allow exiting in a forward direction when all parking spaces are full. Parking spaces shall be provided in adequate number to serve the use according to the following requirements: for hotels/motels less than sixty (60) rooms, suites or units, the minimum parking shall be not less than 1.25 spaces per guestroom, or per two (2) room suite or unit, and 2.00 spaces per suite or unit of three (3) or more rooms, plus parking figured separately for other facilities.

For hotels/motels of sixty (60) rooms or more, see Table 41-1C.

H.

Security. Project security shall be designed to the satisfaction of the Chief of Police and shall include surveillance of arrivals, departures, and parking areas from the office, and security hardware, alarms and lighting.

(Ord. C-6684 § 8, 1990)