For the purposes of this article, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this article are defined as follows:
APPURTENANT SERVICE USES: Those service uses which are customarily supplied in a hotel, or related to hotel functions, such as restaurants/bars to the extent used primarily by the hotel guests; public meeting rooms; beauty salons; shops selling such items as newspapers, magazines, toiletries, pharmaceuticals, and sundries; reservation services for automobile rentals, travel, theaters, and tour reservations; and exercise or similar healthcare facilities; provided, however, with the exception of restaurants/bars located in the triangular area bounded by Wilshire Boulevard, South Santa Monica Boulevard, and the alley between Crescent Drive and Cañon Drive, no appurtenant service use shall have any direct entry onto any street, nor shall such appurtenant service use have any display or signage of any kind which is visible from any street. Except for restaurants/bars located in the triangular area bounded by Wilshire Boulevard, South Santa Monica Boulevard, and the alley between Crescent Drive and Cañon drive, any service use which has such entry, display, or signage shall be deemed a retail store. Public assembly areas shall not constitute an appurtenant service use.
CAPACITY (Relative To Public Assembly Areas, Restaurants/Bars, Or Public Meeting Rooms Or Restaurants/Bars Designated As Appurtenant Service Uses): The maximum number of persons permitted to occupy such areas as authorized by the conditional use permit issued to the hotel. The capacity shall be conspicuously posted in each such area.
GROUND FLOOR STREET FRONTAGE: Frontage adjacent to the street level or within a vertical distance of eight feet (8') above the curb level or five feet (5') below the curb level.
GUESTROOM: A room or suite of rooms designed for occupancy as a single unit, exclusive of units designed or used for occupancy by on site management and/or maintenance personnel.
PUBLIC ASSEMBLY AREA: Any area or room without fixed seating, excluding foyers or anterooms not designed for concurrent public assembly, for routine use as a meeting place for scheduled events or functions, whether or not such room contains movable partitions. Public meeting rooms which qualify as appurtenant service uses shall be excluded from this definition.
PUBLIC MEETING ROOM: A room which cannot be expanded by movable partitions, the use of such room which is primarily by hotel guests, and the maximum capacity of such room or the aggregate capacity of rooms within any hotel does not exceed one-half (1/2) the number of guestrooms in the hotel. A public meeting room which fails to meet the criteria for appurtenant uses shall be considered a public assembly area.
RETAIL STORE: A retail facility which carries on as its principal business the selling of tangible commodities in small quantities directly to consumers and including restaurants/bars. (Ord. 84-O-1937, eff. 11-1-1984)