A hotel district is a high density multiple-family area bordering business districts and ocean fronts. This district includes public and semi-public institutional and accessory uses. This district is basically residential in character and, as such, should not be spotted with commercial enterprises. (Prior code § 8-1.7(a))

Within hotel districts, the following uses shall be permitted:

A. Any use permitted in residential and apartment districts;

B. Hotels;

C. Apartment-hotels;

D. Auditoriums and theaters;

E. Automobile parking lots and buildings;

F. Bona fide nonprofit clubs and lodges;

G. Nonprofit museums, libraries and art galleries and philanthropic institutions;

H. Accessory uses:

1. Bar,

2. Barber shops,

3. Beauty parlors,

4. Dancing and hula studios,

5. Flower shops,

6. Gift and curio shops,

7. Haberdasheries,

8. Massage studios,

9. Music stores and studios,

10. Newsstands and magazine stands,

11. Pharmacies and drug stores,

12. Restaurants, with or without nightclub facilities,

13. Sandwich or coffee shops,

14. Tour service agencies and travel ticket offices,

15. Wearing apparel shops,

16. Other accessory, business or service establishments which supply commodities or perform services primarily for the hotel guests; however, such uses shall be approved by the commission as conforming to the intent of this title;

I. Restrictions on accessory uses:

1. All such hotel and apartment-hotel buildings in which such accessory uses shall be permitted and allowed shall contain more than twenty rooms, and such accessory uses shall be permitted and allowed only as an adjunct to, and as part of, the main building and no other,

2. All such personal service shops and businesses shall be operated primarily as a service to, and for the convenience of, the tenants and occupants of the buildings in which such services are located,

3. Where the lot area is in excess of twenty thousand square feet, doors and entrances to such shops and businesses may be allowed to open to the public street, further, the shops and businesses may be constructed as separate buildings; provided, that location of such shops and businesses shall have been approved by the commission. (Ord. 2030 § 4, 1991: prior code § 8-1.7(b))

The minimum lot area shall be ten thousand square feet in H-1 hotel districts, fifteen thousand square feet in H-M, and twenty thousand square feet in H-2 districts. The minimum lot frontage shall be seventy feet for H-1, eighty-five feet for H-M, and one hundred feet for H-2 districts. (Prior code § 8-1.7(c))

No building shall exceed two stories in H-1, six stories in H-M, and twelve stories in H-2 districts. (Prior code § 8-1.7(d))

The total ground area occupied by all buildings shall not exceed twenty-five percent of the lot area in H-1, thirty percent in H-M, and thirty-five percent in H-2 districts. (Prior code § 8-1.7(e))

The gross floor area of all buildings shall not exceed fifty percent of the lot area in H-1, one hundred percent in H-M, and one hundred fifty percent in H-2 districts. (Prior code § 8-1.7(f))

Minimum yard spacing shall be provided in accordance with the following table:

(Prior code § 8-1.7(g))