(a) Hotels shall be permitted in the I-2 intensive industrial district and IMX-1 industrial-commercial mixed-use district; provided that:
(1) They are within 0.5 mile by the usual and customary route of vehicular travel from the principal entrance of an airport used by commercial airlines, having regularly scheduled flights. For Honolulu International Airport, the principal entrance shall be the intersection of Paiea Street and Nimitz Highway;
(2) They have frontage on a major or secondary street or highway;
(3) They have a minimum lot area of 15,000 square feet and minimum lot width of 70 feet;
(4) The maximum floor area ratio shall be 2.0;
(5) Parking requirements of at least one space per two lodging or dwelling units shall be provided;
(6) Front yards shall have a minimum depth of 10 feet, and except for necessary driveways and walkways, shall be maintained in landscaping; and
(7) Signs shall conform to the sign requirements applicable within B-2 community business district regulations.
(b) Hotels shall be permitted in the BMX-3 community business mixed-use district; provided that:
(1) They are located within the Primary Urban Center Development Plan, the Ewa Development Plan, or the Central Oahu Sustainable Communities Plan areas, as established by Chapter 24;
(2) Hotels with more than 180 dwelling and/or lodging units shall require a conditional use permit (major);
(3) When eating or drinking establishments, meeting facilities, retail establishments, or other commercial establishments are on the same zoning lot, these uses shall be treated as separate permitted uses for purposes of this chapter;
(4) Multi-family dwellings and hotel use shall not be permitted on the same floor level; and
(5) No hotel unit shall be used as a time share or transient vacation unit.
(1990 Code, Ch. 21, Art. 5, § 21-5.360) (Added by Ord. 99-12; Am. Ord. 13-10)