San Diego County Municipal Code Part Six Resort Services Regulations

The provisions of Section 6400 through 6449, inclusive, shall be known as the Resort Service Regulations. The purpose of these provisions is to ensure that transient habitation uses providing resort services meet minimum standards of habitability and do not adversely impact surrounding property.

The section shall apply only to those uses classified in the Transient Habitation: Resort Use Type.

a. Minimum Site Area. Each resort services use shall occupy a site not less than 5 acres in area.

b. Density. A resort services use shall not have a density of transient habitation units greater than the higher of the following:

1. Five transient habitation units per acre, or

2. The number specified by the applicable Density Designator or the General Plan.

c. Setbacks from Property Lines. No building or structures, except a fence or wall, shall be located closer than 30 feet to any property line except that in the C42 Zone, setbacks shall comply with those specified by the applicable setback designator.

d. Campground Space. Each campground space which may be provided shall accommodate only one recreational vehicle or tenting party, be clearly designated, be not less than 1,500 square feet in area, and front on a roadway not less than 25 feet wide that affords access to a street.

e. Occupancy Limitations. No person or group of persons shall occupy any transient habitation unit as a permanent family residential or group residential use. No person shall occupy one or more transient habitation units anywhere within a resort services facility for more than a total of 90 days in any 12 month period, nor shall the cumulative occupancy by any person of different transient occupation units anywhere within the use exceed a total of 90 days in any 12 month period.

f. Interior Roadways. Interior roadways in a resort services use shall have a minimum width of 15 feet for one-way roads with no side parking, and a minimum width of 24 feet for two- way roads with no side parking.

g. Common Open Space. Of the total site area of any resort services use not less than 60 percent shall be developed as picnic grounds, outdoor sport or recreation facilities and/or private park.

h. Completion of Improvements. None of the transient habitation units of a resort services use shall be occupied until all improvements otherwise required by this ordinance have been completed.

(Amended by Ord. No. 5508 (N.S.) adopted 5-16-79) (Amended by Ord. No. 6761 (N.S.) adopted 4-25-84) (Amended by Ord. No. 10162 (N.S.) adopted 8-3-11)

a. Public Address Systems. Public address systems shall not be used by resort services at such a volume as to allow words to be understood outside the boundaries of the lot or parcel on which the activity is located.

b. Outdoor Lighting. Outdoor lighting used by resort services uses shall be adjusted to reflect light away from roads and driveways and from adjoining property, except that a bona fide system of street lights may be used if it does not cause light to be reflected on adjoining property.

A resort services use may include the following accessory uses.

a. Food Services. Restaurants, lunch counters, and/or snack bars.

b. Assembly. A building or buildings designed for use for indoor meetings, entertainment and/or recreation.

c. General Store. If 50 transient habitation or more units have been lawfully established in the resort services use, a general store having a total floor area of not more than 1,000 square feet.