5.06.020(B)“Hotel accommodation means any room or rooms in any structure, or any portion of a structure, which is occupied or intended or designed for occupancy for dwelling, lodging or sleeping purposes, and includes any hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, studio hotel, lodging house, rooming house, apartment house, dormitory, public or private club, mobile home or house trailer at a fixed location, or other similar structure or portion thereof.” source
5.06.020(F)(1)“Any person who, by way of advance monthly payment, is entitled to and actually does occupy a hotel accommodation for a calendar month or, in the alternative, for 30 consecutive calendar days” source
18.08.070 Table 18.08.02“Uses not listed here, but consistent with the character and density and intensity of zoning districts, defined in Sections 18.08.010 through 18.08.040, may be permitted through the administrative review process.” source
21.04.020“Short term rental means renting vessel to another person for nightly accommodations.” source
Citation: No STR ordinance. TOT is Chapter 5.06 (Ord. 591 section 1 (part), 1991). Residential use table is Table 18.08.02 in 18.08.070. Marina vessel STR definition is 21.04.020.
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