(a) Location adjacent to residential district. Where a hotel, motel or inn is less than 1,000 feet from any one- or two-family district, or public and private, primary and secondary educational facilities providing education up through and including the twelfth grade, a planned development district shall be created for such use. This regulation shall not apply to the following:
(1) When the property in the one- or two-family district is used for utilities, waterways, public parks, railroads or other nonresidential public use or separated from the hotel, motel or inn by a public right-of-way of at least 300 feet; or
(2) The Central Business Zoning District; or
(3) The following mixed-use or form-based zoning districts:
a. MU-1;
b. MU-2;
c. Panther Island;
d. Near Southside;
e. Camp Bowie;
f. Trinity Lakes;
g. Berry/University; or
h. Stockyards.
(b) Planned development hotel use. The following criteria shall be applicable to any planned development hotel use:
(1) Ingress/egress should be taken from the major street furthest from the residential district;
(2) No screening fence shall be erected along the perimeter of the hotel property adjacent to a street, alley or right-of-way; provided, however that a screening fence shall be permitted around swimming pools, tennis courts and other recreational facilities; and a screening fence shall be permitted along property lines adjacent to other lots;
(3) Incidental businesses may be conducted within the hotel, provided that the principal entrance to the business shall be from the inside of the building;
(4) A secondary entrance to the hotel may be provided from a court or from the principal frontage but from no other street and shall not face any residential district. Exception: Emergency egress only when required by the building code and only when no other emergency egress can be designed; and
(5) Any other conditions required by the city council as a condition of site plan approval.
(Ord. 13896, passed 10-12-1999; Ord. 15622, § 2, passed 7-15-2003; Ord. 20453-10-2012, § 4, passed 10-9-2012; Ord. 27096-08-2024, § 1, passed 8-27-2024, eff. 9-19-2024)