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Packet · Sep 11, 2012

Conference/Public Meeting Agendas/Documents — Packet

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(5) A landscape plan, which provides substantial buffering of the parking area, must be approved by the Planning Board or Board of Adjustment and kept on file in the Department of Planning and Development. All plantings shall be maintained in perpetuity and all plants must be replaced in kind when necessary. (e) Hotels and Restaurants. In any R-5 District, a hotel on a land area of ten (10) acres or more in extent, and located on a County road, provided that such use shall be approved by the Department of Health and Welfare. In addition such use shall be subject to conditions and safeguards imposed by the Planning Board including but not limited to: (1) The location and adequacy of entrances and exits for vehicular traffic and the safety of customers and guests. (2) Adequate buffers including a landscaped buffer of one hundred fifty (150) feet around the sides and rear of the property line. (3) A maximum building coverage of twenty (20%) percent. (4) A maximum of forty (40%) percent impervious surface coverage. (5) If any adjoining lot is in a residential district there must be a three hundred fifty (350) foot rear and side yard set- back to any hotel or restaurant or ac- cessory use or structure. (f) Banquet and Conference Center. A development consisting of a banquet and dining facility, conference center and guest rooms for overnight accommodations in one (1) or more buildings shall be permitted in the R-4 District as a conditional use subject to the following requirements: (1) The minimum lot size shall be twenty-five (25) acres and the minimum lot depth shall be one thousand five hundred (1,500) feet. (2) The property shall have frontage on a County road. (3) The maximum building ground coverage shall be ten (10%) percent and the maximum lot coverage shall be twenty-five (25%) percent. In no case shall the gross floor area of all buildings exceed one hundred thirty-six thousand (136,000) square feet. (4) The maximum building height shall be the same as for the R-4 District except that existing buildings shall be exempt from this requirement. (5) The total number of guest

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(4) The maximum building height shall be the same as for the R-4 District except that existing buildings shall be exempt from this requirement. (5) The total number of guest rooms for overnight accommodations shall not exceed fifty (50) rooms. (6) All principal buildings shall be set back at least one hundred twenty-five (125) feet from any property line and all parking areas, parking access aisles and new accessory buildings shall be set back at least fifty (50) feet from any property line. (7) There shall be a fifty (50) foot wide buffer adjacent to all property lines which shall consist of natural vegetation and, if required by the Planning Board, new vegetation to supplement existing vegetation. Roadways, driveways and existing structures shall be permitted within such buffer areas provided they are designed to minimize disruption of such areas, except that a seventy-five (75) foot wide buffer shall be required adjacent to any existing multifamily development and no roadways, driveways or structures shall be allowed in the seventy-five (75) foot wide buffer area. 95

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