(A) Purpose. The B-4, Service-Recreational Business District, is designed to accommodate the location of recreational camping areas. The words RECREATIONAL CAMPING AREAS shall mean any area, whether privately or publicly owned, used on a daily, nightly, weekly or longer basis for the accommodation of five or more units, consisting of tents, travel trailers, pickup coaches, motor homes or camping trailers and whether use of the accommodation is granted free of charge or for compensation. It is intended that the B-4, Service-Recreational Business District, be located in separate areas which may be adjacent to other retail business districts or in close proximity to a major thoroughfare. The purpose of this section is to make provision for recreational camping areas on larger tracts of land under single or unified ownership. Camping areas shall be developed in accordance with an overall design and an integrated general development plan, be consistent with the intent and purposes of this chapter and not adversely affect adjacent properties.
(B) Permitted uses. Within a B-4, Service-Recreational Business District, no building or land shall be used except for one or more of the following use:
(1) Recreational camping areas; and
(C) Uses by conditional use permit. Within a B-4, Service-Recreational business district, no building or land shall be used for one or more of the following uses, except by conditional use permit: accessory uses customarily incident to the uses permitted in division (B) above.
(D) Regulations.
(1) Statutory regulations. M.S. §§ 327.10 through 327.28, as they may be amended from time to time, which pertain to hotels, motels, resorts and manufactured home parks and camping areas, are hereby adopted by reference. Minn. Rules parts 4630.0200 through 4630.2210, as they may be amended from time to time, which pertain to camps and mobile home parks, are also adopted by reference. A copy of this chapter shall be available at the Zoning Administrator’s office.
(2) General regulations; recreational camping areas.
(a) A recreational camping area development shall consist of a harmonious selection of uses and grouping of buildings, services and parking areas, circulation and open spaces, and shall be planned and designed as an integrated unit, in a manner as to constitute a safe, efficient and convenient living area. The project shall be consistent with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan for the city.
(c) The minimum area of land to be included in a recreational camping area development shall be at least two acres.
(d) The recreational camping area development shall be served by public sewer and water system.
(e) Private roadways within the development shall be installed to city specifications for public roadways.
(f) In order that the purposes of the recreational camping area development may be achieved, the land and buildings and appurtenant facilities shall be in a single ownership, or under the management and supervision of a central authority or otherwise subject to supervisory lease or ownership control as may be reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
(3) Administrative procedure.
(a) The proponents of a recreational camping area development shall submit a general development plan along with the application for rezoning or conditional use permit to and secure the approval of the city’s Planning Commission and the Council. The general development plan shall be drawn to scale with topography of a contour interval not greater than two feet. The plan shall show:
1. The proposed site and existing development on adjacent properties;
2. The proposed size, location and arrangement of buildings;
3. Parking areas and stall arrangement;
4. Entrance and exit drives;
5. Off-street parking areas shall be so designed that vehicles can be parked in a convenient and orderly fashion and so the traffic may move from one part of a parking lot to another without using a public street;
6. Landscaping;
7. Dimensions;
8. Proposed sewer and water systems; and
9. Recreation areas.
(b) If the zoning change and conditional use is approved, the general development plan is attached to and is a part of the ordinance establishing the zoning change. Any substantial change to the plan will require a resubmission to and approval by the Planning Commission.
(c) The owner or developer must agree to comply with all requirements of the city regarding lighting, noise abatement, traffic control and regulations maintaining order and keeping the premises free from debris and any other conditions that the Council may require.
(d) The development of the general development plan shall be in substantial compliance with the approved final development plan.
(2002 Code, § 7.23) (Ord. 26, Second Series, effective 3-1-1972)