HomeMy WebLinkAbout1772ORDINANCE NO. 1772
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 5.26.020 OF,
ADDING SUBSECTION (d) TO SECTION 5.26.030 OF,
AND ADDING SUBSECTION (E) TO SECTION 5.24.040
OF, THE PALM SPRINGS MUNICIPAL CODE, ADDING
BOUTIQUE HOTELS AS HOTELS COVERED BY THE
CITY'S HOTEL OPERATIONS INCENTIVE PROGRAM.
City Attorney's Summary
This Ordinance amends the existing hotel incentive program
by adding boutique hotels as hotels covered by the City's
Hotel Operations Incentive Program under specific terms
and conditions.
The City Council of the City of Palm Springs ordains:
Section 1. Section 5.26.020 is amended by amending the definition for "Hotel" and
adding new definitions for the terms "Boutique Hotel" and "Qualified Boutique Hotel
Renovation Program" as follows:
"Boutique Hotel" means any property containing at least four (4) guest rooms and
no more than forty-nine (49) guest rooms for compensation and where the guest rooms
are designed and intended as transient occupancy accommodations.
"Hotel" means any property containing fifty (50) or more guest rooms used by fifty
(50) or more guests for compensation and where the guest rooms are designed and
intended as transient occupancy accommodations.
"Qualified Boutique Hotel Renovation Program" means a property improvement
program undertaken by a Boutique Hotel which invests no less than ten thousand
dollars ($10,000.00) per room, or invests no less than five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000.00) in ancillary non -hotel room facilities and/or space. The property
improvement program shall be comprehensively executed in a single renovation project
on the property, commenced on or after January 1, 2008 and be completed no later
than December 31, 2012.
Section 2. Subsection (d) is added to Section 5.26.030 of the Palm Springs Municipal
Code to read:
(d) To qualify for the Hotel Operations Incentive Program for Boutique Hotels, the
Operator shall:
(1) Complete and submit to the City Manager, the City's application for
the Hotel Operations Incentive Program, including documentation satisfactory to
the city certifying the renovation project for an existing hotel as a qualified
renovation program;
(2) If requested by the City Manager, subscribe to the Palm Springs
Convention Center's committable rooms program;
(3) Execute the operating covenants which shall include provisions regarding
continuing use, maintenance, non-discrimination, and such other provisions as
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the city council in its sole discretion, may reasonably determine are necessary or
appropriate to preserve the goals and intent of this Chapter.
Section 3. Subsection (e) is added to Section 5.26.040 of the Palm Springs Municipal
Code:
(e) Boutique Hotels. The City shall pay to an Operator of a Boutique Hotel an
amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the Transient Occupancy Tax Increment collected
and remitted to the City pursuant to Chapter 3.24 of this Code. Such payments shall be
made for ten (10) years, or until the Operator has received Twelve Million, Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($12,500,000.00), whichever occurs first. Without regard to any
preceding conditions of this Section, the Program shall terminate at any point the
Boutique Hotel is not operated as a Hotel.
Section 4. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and
adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause the same, or the summary thereof, to be
published and posted pursuant to the provisions of law and this Ordinance shall take
effect upon adoption.
APPROVED, PASSED, AND ADOPTED THIS 5th DAY OF MAY, 2010.
ATTEST:
ames Thomps�nC,ty Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS)
Steph n P. Pougnet, ayor
CERTIFICATION
I, JAMES THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, California, do hereby
certify that Ordinance No. 1772 is a full, true, and correct copy, and was introduced at a
regular meeting of the Palm Springs City Council on the 21st of April, 2010, and adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 5th of May, 2010, by the following
vote:
AYES: Councilmember Foat, Mills, Weigel, Mayor Pro Tern Hutcheson, and
Mayor Pougnet
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
;lames Thompson, City Clerk
City of Palm Springs, California l