(a) Intent. The R-3 Resort Residential District is established as a district in which the principal use of land is for residential and commercial hospitality purposes to include multifamily structures, hotels, motels, and lodges. Uses in conjunction with hotels, motels, and lodges may also be allowed when approved as a special use.
(b) Permitted uses. Within the R-3 Resort Residential District, a building or land shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Single-family dwellings, excluding mobile homes.
(2) Multifamily dwellings, including duplexes.
(3) Family care homes.
(4) Hotels, lodges, motels, boardinghouses, roominghouses, bed and breakfast establishments, private clubs to provide lodging, services and board for the general public.
(5) Customary accessory buildings, including private garages, storage buildings, and noncommercial workshops, shall be allowed for home occupations subject to all provisions of section 36-232.
(6) Residential vacation rentals subject to special requirements contained in section 36-72(1).
(7) Basement or garage apartments, one per lot.
(8) Telecommunications facilities and antennae (see section 36-72(4)).
(c) Special use permit. The following uses require a special use permit subject to a finding by the board of adjustment that all applicable provisions of article IV of this chapter have been met:
(1) Non-customary accessory uses.
(2) Home occupations as defined in section 36-5 and subject to all conditions stated therein.
(3) Public utility buildings and facilities as previously described in section 36-56(c)(4).
(4) Planned unit developments.
(5) Restaurants, golf courses, and other uses designed in response to the unique natural setting of the area, when in conjunction with a hotel, motel or lodge.
(6) All telecommunications tower requirements listed in section 36-72(4).
(7) Camps.
(8) All new commercial buildings; new building additions with a gross floor area of 1,000 square feet, or more, to an existing commercial building; or any new addition to an existing commercial building where the building facade length, as existing in December 2005, will be increased by more than 50 percent as a result of an addition or multiple additions.
(9) Common amenities for residential developments provided that they are situated within the residential development so as not to adversely impact existing and/or reasonably foreseeable uses on adjoining properties. Such amenities shall be set back a minimum of 30 feet from such adjoining properties and a minimum of 60 feet from Lake Lure. Buffering may be utilized to ensure compatibility with adjoining uses.
(10) Accessory residential event venue. In issuing a special use permit for an accessory residential event venue, the board of adjustment may impose reasonable conditions, including a maximum number of events per year and a maximum number of attendees which shall be based on the availability of parking, safe ingress and egress, sanitary facilities, potential impacts to adjacent properties and similar site-specific conditions.
(11) Primary event venue. In issuing a special use permit for a primary event venue, the board of adjustment may impose reasonable conditions, including a maximum number of events per year and a maximum number of attendees which shall be based on the availability of parking, safe ingress and egress, sanitary facilities, potential impacts to adjacent properties and similar site-specific conditions.
(12) Campgrounds.
(Code 1989, § 92.029; Ord. of 1-22-1991; Ord. of 9-27-1994; Ord. of 1-28-1997; Ord. of 11-15-2005; Ord. of 1-8- 2008; Ord. of 10-13-2009; Ord. of 4-10-2012; Ord. of 7-14-2015; Ord. of 11-10-2015; Ord. No. 21-05-11, 5-11-2021)