Division 16 — MOTELS AND HOTELS

All hotels and motels shall comply with the following standards:

A.

On-site management shall be available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

B.

Not less than weekly maid and housekeeping service shall be provided for each guest room. "Maid and housekeeping service" means basic cleaning, including but not limited to vacuuming, sweeping and/or mopping, dusting, and changing of bed linens and towels.

C.

No hotel/motel room shall be rented more than once in a twenty-four-hour period.

D.

All hotels/motels shall maintain daily records reflecting the names and permanent addresses of hotel/motel guests, as verified by valid driver's license or other valid identification along with the license number, state of license, make, model, and year of any guest's vehicle parked on-site or the corporate account information and guest names, the dates of occupancy, length of stay, and room rate. This registration information shall be maintained for at least one year past the last day of stay for each guest and shall be made available for review by any duly sworn peace officer of the city, state, or federal government or any authorized official of the city's code enforcement or finance department during normal business hours. Any person who knowingly or intentionally misrepresents any material facts required in this subsection shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. 544 § 1(part), 2000).

A.

As used herein, the term "long-term occupancy" shall be defined as any stay in a hotel/motel exceeding either thirty consecutive days or sixty days per calendar quarter.

B.

No hotel/motel shall permit any long-term occupancy of any room unless all the following conditions are met, in which case a maximum of fifteen percent of the rooms may be rented for residential tenants subject to approval of a conditional use permit.

In-room telephone service shall be provided for each long-term occupancy guest room.

Each room rented for long-term occupancy shall be a minimum of two hundred seventy-five square feet.

Each room rented for long-term occupancy shall contain a kitchenette (portion of the room containing any combination of facilities of sufficient size for the preparation of meals) or shall have on-site room service available.

(Ord. 544 § 1(part), 2000).

A.

Any hotel or motel not in compliance with this Division 16 shall be brought into compliance in accordance with the following schedule:

Within one year, all hotels/motels shall comply with the required standards of Section 19.31.510; and

Within one year, the number of guest rooms rented for long-term occupancy in each hotel/motel shall not exceed thirty percent of the total number of guest rooms in the hotel/motel, and such long-term occupancy guest rooms shall comply fully with Section 19.31.520(B)(1), (B)(2) and (B)(3); and

Within two years, the number of guest rooms rented for long-term occupancy in each hotel/motel shall not exceed twenty percent of the total number of guest rooms in the hotel/motel, and such long-term occupancy guest rooms shall comply fully with Section 19.31.520(B)(1), (B)(2) and (B)(3); and

Within three years, the number of guest rooms rented for long-term occupancy in each hotel/motel shall comply fully with Section 19.31.520.

B.

The provisions of Chapter 19.37 (Nonconforming Uses and Structures) of this Title 19 shall also apply.

(Ord. 544 § 1(part), 2000).