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ORDINANCE NO. 2155
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO ZONING, DEFINING
"BED AND BREAKFAST INN", ADDING NEW SECTIONS
17.08.043, 17.16.040, AND 17.28.085, AND
AMENDING SECTIONS 17.08.240, 17.08.485,
17.16.010, 17.28.020, 17.28.060, AND
17.64.050 OF THE PORT TOWNSEND MUNICIPAL
CODE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1 A new Section 17.08.043 is hereby added to the
Port Townsend Municipal Code as follows:
17.08.043 Bed and Breakfast Inn. "Bed and breakfast inn"
means a building with a central kitchen which provides the
primary residence for the owner or operator and which offers
guest rooms for travellers and transient guests for
compensation. Food service may be offered exclusively to
people registered to use the inn for lodging or special
events. Accessory buildings which were lawfully established
prior to June 1, 1989, may be considered part of a bed and
breakfast inn.
Section 2.
Section 17.08.240 of the Port Townsend Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
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17.08.240 Hotel. "Hotel" means any building or portion
thereof containing five or more rooms which share a common
entry to the buildinq that are rented, or hired out to be
occupied for sleeping purposes for compensation. ((whe~he~
~he-eem~e~se~-~e-p~-~ee~y-e~-~ee~)) A central
kitchen and dining room and accessory shops and services
catering to the general public ((emm)) may be provided. Not
included are institutions housing persons under legal
restraint or requiring medical attention or care.
Section 3.
Section 17.08.485 of the Port Townsend Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
17.08.485 Tourist home. "Tourist home" means a ((~¥a~e
~es~e,ee-ha~,~)) ~ildinq which provides the primary
residence for the owner and which offers not more than
((~h~ee)) ~_.q~9_~rooms for hire to
transient quests for ((em~y)) sleeping purposes only ((7mm~
whese-~e~e-~s-seesema~-~m-ehe~ee~e~)). A tourist home or a
portion ~hereof may be located in an accessory buildinc
which was lawfully establ%sh~ prior to June 1, 1989.
section 4.
Section 17.28.020 of the Port Townsend Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
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17.28.020 Location. Off-street parking facilities shall be
located as hereinafter specified; where a distance is
specified, such distance shall be the walking distance
measured from the nearest point of the parking facility to
the nearest ((De~-e~)) entrance to the building that such
facility is required to serve:
(1) For one and two family dwellings: on the same lot
with the building they are required to serve;
(2) For multiple dwellings and tourists homes: not
more than one hundred feet;
(3) For hospitals, sanitariums, homes for the aged,
rooming and boardinghouses, fraternity and sorority houses:
not more than three hundred feet;
(4) For uses within the Downtown Parking District:
within or immediately adjacent to the Downtown Parking
District;
(5) For uses other than those specified above: not
more than five hundred feet;
f6% For bed and breakfast inns: not more than two
hundred feet,
Section 5.
Section 17.28.060 of the Port Townsend Municipal
Code is hereby amended as follows:
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17.28.060 Joint use. The board may authorize the joint use of
parking facilities for the following uses or activities under
conditions specified:
(1) Up to fifty percent of the parking facilities
required by this chapter for primarily "nighttime" uses such
as theaters, bowling alleys, bars, restaurants and related
uses, may be supplied by certain other types of buildings or
uses herein referred to as "daytime" uses such as banks,
offices, retail and personal service shops, clothing, food,
furniture, manufacturing or wholesale and related uses;
(2) Up to fifty percent of the parking facilities
required by this chapter for primarily "daytime" uses may be
supplied by primarily "nighttime" uses;
(3) Up to one hundred percent of the parking
facilities required by this chapter for a church~
b~-e~~, ~_-. or for an auditorium incidental
to a public or parochial school, may be supplied by the off-
street parking facilities proved by uses primarily of a
"daytime" nature.
Section 6.
17.28.085
A new Section 17.28.085 is hereby added to the
Port Townsend Municipal Code to read as follows:
Residential transient accommodations--parkina
requirements
A bed and breakfast inn or a tourist home shall provide
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two off-street parking spaces for the owner's use plus one
parking space for each guest room, provided that for a bed
and breakfast inn in a building which is:
a. Individually listed on the National Register of
Historic Places, or
b. Identified as either a pivotal, primary or secondary
building on the map which accompanied the certification of
the Port Townsend Historic District on May 17, 1976;
the required number of off-street parking spaces shall be
reduced by the number of on-street parking spaces which are
located on that portion of the public street right-of-way
which is abutting the front and side lot lines of the
property. In such instances, one on-street parking space
shall be counted for each continuous twenty feet of abutting
street frontage, less the twenty feet closest to each street
intersection and any frontage which may not be safely used
for on-street parking due to the presence of driveways,
hydrants or other conflicting uses.
Section 7.
Section 17.16.010 of the Port Townsend Municipal
Code is hereby amended as follows:
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pERMITTED AND CONDITIONAL USES
Bed and breakfast inn
Hotels and inns and similar
uses not otherwise listed in
this table
Motels and motor hotels
Tourist homes((7-eaee~-~
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Section 8. A new Section 17.16.040 is hereby added to the Port
Townsend Municipal Code to read as follows:
17.16.040 ~wisting Bed and Breakfast INns and Tourist Homes.
Any and all conditional use permits which are valid on June 1,
1989, and which authorize an existing bed and breakfast inn or
tourist home shall remain in effect and may be revised as follows:
(1) any condition contained therein requiring periodic
renewal is hereby cancelled, and
(2) the board may grant revision to any conditions relating
to parking requirements contained therein to adjust such
requirements to the parking requirements provided in this
title. Any such bed and breakfast inn or tourist home may
make application for revision directly to the board upon
submission no later than December 31, 1989, of a parking plan
prepared pursuant to this title and upon payment of a fee in
the amount of $75.00. The board, upon a finding that the
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revision requested would not substantially change the nature
of the use, may grant such revision without hearing. The
board, in its consideration of such applications for revision,
shall follow the standards and criteria for the issuance of a
conditional use permit pursuant to section 17.64.040 of this
title.
Section 9.
17.64.050
Section 17.64.050 of the Port Townsend Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Conditional use permit--Denial or Recision. If the
board denies or rescinds the conditional use permit, the reasons
therefor shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting at which
the permit is denied:
(A) Th~ board may .rescind any conditional use permit uDon a
findina that the permit holder failed to c0mplv with the specific
plans approved bv the board or with any conditions imposed upon the
conditional use permit; ((~-~he-e~e~-~-~a~e-~-e~m~-w~h
~he-~ams-a~eve~-B~-~he-Bea~-e~-w&~h-am~-eem~&e&ems-&mpese~-mDem
beeeme-~e~-em~-e~-me-e~eee~))
(B) In the event the board becomes aware of possible adverse
effects resul~ina from a conditional use, the board may, after
hearing, impose additional conditions or rescind any conditional
use permit uDon a findinc that. due to chan~ed circumstances since
crantin~ such permit, the use no longer meets the standards and
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criteria qovernina conditional use permits pursuant to section
~7.64.040 of this title.
(c) Where plans are required to be submitted and approved as
part of the application for a conditional use permit, modifications
of the original plans may be made by the board after review.
Section 10. Severability. In the event any one or more of the
provisions of this ordinance shall for any reason be held to be invalid,
such invalidity shall not affect or invalidate any other provision of'
this ordinance, but this ordinance shall be construed and enforced as if
such invalid provision had not been contained therein; provided, that
any provision which shall for any reason be held by reason of its extent
to be invalid shall be deemed to be in effect to the extent permitted by
law.
Section 11. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective
five days after its passage and publication.
Read for the first time on
May 16~ 1989 ., the second time on
3une 6~ 1989 , and the third time and passed by the City Council of
the City of Port Townsend, Washington, at a regular meeting thereof,
held this ~or, day of ~-~ ., 19 ~ .
ATTESiient S~~e~
Approved ala~iod f~~m~r°~i'~Y~~//
Keith C. Harper, City Attorney
((~e~e~e~-eex~))
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6/6/89
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