NS-2471 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

enlargement, major rehabilitation, or if totally closed for business for more than one year period. Thirteen (13) motels and hotels currently exist in the City which serve as the primary residence of a large percentage of their guests. A list of these thirteen (13) facilities is attached to this ordinance as Exhibit 1 and incorporated herein by this reference as though fully set forth. These hotels and motels lack amenities necessary for the health and safety of families and particularly children. The City Council also desires to update the zoning code to provide a definition of transient/residential hotels, and to ensure that such hotels are permitted only when they provide appropriate amenities for children and families, such as open space, laundry rooms, landscaping and kitchens (as defined in section 310.7.2 of the California Building Code). The City Council desires to have all existing transient/residential hotels either obtain a CUP and be added to a SD or SP zoning district, or reduce, over a three year period, the number of long-term guests to below twenty- five percent (25%) of the total hotel guests, so that existing long-term guests will not be displaced but rather have an extended opportunity to make plans to leave of their own accord. The City Council also desires to include the possibility of an extension of this three (3) year period within which to come into compliance for special cases. The City Council finds that the three (3) year amortization period set forth in this Ordinance is appropriate for the following reasons: (1) the hotel occupancy rate for 2000 in Orange County increased by 8.2% to 73.9%, with the highest occupancy rates, 75%, in the airport area of the County (Orange County Register, February 28, 2001), (2) as set forth in part in the Motel Families Report prepared by the Orange County Social Services Agency, there are numerous programs available in the County for guests staying at transient/residential hotels, (3) according to the 2000 Orange County Apartment Survey, compiled by Research Network, Ltd. and the Real Estate & Land Use Institute of California State Fullerton, 13% of Orange County apartment complexes offered incentives for new tenants and over 7,700 apartments were in the planning states, permitted or being constructed in the first quarter of 2000, and (4) this Ordinance provides a case-by-case opportunity for any aggrieved owner of a property to be amortized to seek an extension. The reports referenced above are incorporated herein by this reference as though fully set forth. Nothing herein is intended, nor shall it be interpreted, to conflict with state law on the rehabilitation of "residential hotels," set forth at California Health & Safety Code section 50519 et seq. Ordinance No. NS-2471 Page 2 of 10