Title 22 LAND USE
Chapter 22.30 STANDARDS FOR SPECIFIC LAND USES
22.30.240 Indoor amusement and recreation facilities.
This section applies only to the specific uses listed.
A. Limitation
on Use - Office and Professional Category. Amusement and recreational service
uses allowed in the Office and Professional land use category are limited to
indoor facilities including gymnasiums, reducing salons, health and athletic
clubs (including indoor sauna, spa or hot tub facilities), racquetball, handball
and other similar indoor sports activities.
B. General Permit Requirement.
Site plan review, except where otherwise provided in Subsection
C.
C. Requirements for Specific Uses.
1. Electronic Game Arcades. These
provisions apply to establishments containing five or more electronic games or
coin-operated amusements; four or fewer are not considered as a land use
separate from the primary use of the site.
a. Limitation on Use. Arcades are
allowable only in the Recreation and Commercial Retail land use
categories.
b. Permit Requirement. Minor use permit.
c. Location
Criteria. Arcades shall be at least one thousand feet from any elementary or
secondary school site and at least two hundred feet from any Residential land
use category.
d. Building Requirements. Arcades shall be located within a
completely enclosed building, in space separate from other uses on the same
site, so designed as to prevent excessive noise, glare or other offensive factor
from affecting other uses in the immediate vicinity. The arcade shall be
designed and arranged to that there is a management attendant within the arcade
at all times. Adequate space shall be provided to allow the use of each machine
and unimpaired access throughout the arcade without
overcrowding.
e. Parking. See Chapter 22.18.
f. Signs. Arcades shall be
posted with readily visible signs, with their location, size and text described
in the minor use permit application, indicating that persons under the age of
sixteen shall not be permitted on the premises during normal school
hours.
2. Card Rooms. These provisions apply to the establishment of card
rooms. For the purposes of this section, a card room is defined as being an
establishment only for the purposes of playing card games as authorized by state
statutes and local ordinance.
a. Permit Requirement. Use permit
approval.
b. Limitation on Use. Card rooms are limited to a maximum of four
tables. A table, for the purposes of this section, is defined as serving no more
than ten seated customers at one time.
c. Location Criteria. Card rooms
shall be located at least three hundred feet from any parcel on which there is
located any public library, public, private, or parochial school or preschool,
church, city, district, county or state owned, operated and maintained public
park, playground, beach or other facility and two hundred feet from any land
located within an agriculture, rural lands or residential land use
category.
d. Measure of Distances. The distances referenced above shall be
measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the
closest exterior structural wall of the card room to closest property line of
the library, school church park, agriculture, rural lands or residential land
use category.
e. Additional findings require. The review authority may
approve, or conditionally approve a land use permit only if, in addition to the
findings of fact required to be made by Section 22.62.060.C.4, it makes the
following findings of fact:
(1) The proposed use will not be contrary to the
public interest or injurious to nearby properties.
(2) The establishment of
the use will not be contrary to any program of neighborhood preservation nor
will it interfere with any program of urban renewal.
f. Exceptions.
Alternatives to the location criteria of Subsection C.2.c may be approved by the
review authority in compliance with Section 22.30.020.B. These standards are the
only provisions of this section subject to this action. (Ord. 2982 § 1
(part), 2002)
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