Division VII. - Master Planned Resort (MPR)


17.04.701 - Purpose.

The master planned resort district provides for self-contained and fully integrated planned unit development in a setting of significant natural amenity, with the primary focus on destination resort facilities consisting of short-term visitor accommodations associated with a range of developed on-site indoor or outdoor recreational facilities.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).

17.04.702 - Uses permitted.

(a)

Uses. Recreation facilities; lodging facilities including hotel, motel, RV park, campgrounds; restaurant; retail; marina - sales, service and storage; golf course; casino; gas.

(b)

Accessory Uses. Employee housing.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).

17.04.703 - Lot requirements.

(a)

Density and Lot Size. Dependent on subject property location.

(b)

Lot Width and Depth. Designate limited and safe access(es) to roads.

(c)

Front Yard Setback. Minimize clearing of vegetation buffer and integrate parking to side or rear of building.

(d)

Side and Rear Yard Setbacks. The side setback shall be twenty feet and the rear setback shall be twenty feet. At minimum, buffer plantings shall be in the first five feet of this setback.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).

17.04.704 - Building regulations.

(a)

Floor Area Ratio. One is to twenty.

(b)

Size. Reviewed through special use permit.

(c)

Height. Thirty-five feet maximum except for agricultural buildings, cell towers, antennas or water tanks.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).

17.04.705 - Signs.

Reviewed as part of special use permit. Temporary signs permitted by section 17.05.025 are allowed. Signs prohibited by section 17.03.203 are not allowed.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).

(Ord. No. 134-08, 12-16-2008)

17.04.706 - Off-street parking.

Off-street parking (stall number and arrangement) shall be provided according with the provisions of the Mason County parking standards.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).

17.04.707 - Special provisions.

(a)

Master planned resorts must be designated by plan amendment and consistent with the Mason County comprehensive plan policies for master planned resorts.

(b)

RV parks existing at the date of development regulations adoption will comply with the existing standards of the mobile home and recreational vehicle parks ordinance. RV parks reviewed after this date of adoption shall comply with the following additional standards:

(1)

No recreational vehicle shall remain in the RV park for rental purposes or for a time period of more than one hundred twenty consecutive days and one hundred eighty days in a three hundred sixty-day period. The RV park management shall maintain daily rental records identifying each RV and shall present them to the county on written request. Failure to maintain or to present these records on request shall be sufficient grounds to rescind the RV park permit;

(2)

The recreational vehicle shall be built on a chassis and self-propelled or permanently towable, and shall not be set up in an RV park as a permanent structure for limited use.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).