User's Guide: This article contains the standards and requirements for hotels, motels, cabins, hospitals, nursing or convalescent homes, inns, bed-and-breakfast establishments, congregate dwelling facilities, apartment house and other multiple dwelling facilities and lodging whether for transient or permanent residence.
Multiple dwelling facilities shall not be located in the Resource Protection, Limited Development, Meadow Pond, or Maritime Activities Districts.
A. 
Rooming houses and bed-and-breakfast facilities are considered to be customary home occupations, and therefore, no additional lot size requirements, beyond those required for a residence, shall apply.
[Amended 6-6-2012; 5-10-2014]
B. 
Hotels, motels, hospitals, cabins, nursing or convalescent homes, and other commercial lodging whether for transient or permanent residence shall be located on lots of not less than 65,340 square feet (1.5 acres) in area for each building not accessory to the principal use.
(1) 
In addition to the minimum lot size of 65,340 square feet each lot shall contain the following additional minimum lot areas for the facilities listed below:
(a) 
Each bedroom: 8,000 square feet.
(b) 
Each public room: 8,000 square feet. Note: "Public rooms" shall include but not be limited to conference rooms, lobbies, restaurant/coffee shops, shops, exercise rooms, recreation rooms, and indoor swimming pools. The term "public room" shall not include rest rooms or rooms incidental to a use requiring additional lot square footage such as changing rooms, restaurant kitchens and office space used in the operation of the business.
(2) 
Cabins, as defined below, shall meet the requirements of this chapter that apply to motels and hotels. The aggregate number of cabins shall be considered one principal use.
C. 
Apartment houses, congregate dwelling facilities, and other similar multiple dwelling facilities not connected to a public sewer shall be located on lots of not less than 65,340 square feet (1.5 acres) in area per apartment. The Planning Board may permit a lesser minimum lot size for efficiency or one-bedroom apartments and for apartments designed for and to be occupied by the handicapped as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
(1) 
Each apartment permitted a lesser lot size by the Planning Board shall have not less than 21,780 square feet (0.5 acre) in lot area for each designated apartment and a total lot area of not less than 65,340 square feet per building not accessory to the principal use.
(2) 
In permitting the lesser lot size per apartment, the Planning Board shall consider the number of apartments designated and the effect on the neighborhood that the higher density would create.
D. 
Apartment houses, congregate dwelling facilities, and other similar multiple dwelling facilities connected to a public sewer shall be located on a lot of not less than 65,340 square feet in area per building not accessory to the principal use and that has not less than 21,780 square feet (0.5) acre per apartment.
All parking facilities referred to in this section shall be off street and on site.
A. 
All multiple dwelling units shall be provided with 1.5 parking spaces per dwelling unit consistent with Article XV of this chapter.
B. 
The Planning Board may require more or fewer than 1.5 spaces per dwelling unit for good cause.
The Planning Board shall require all multiple dwelling units to meet all requirements of the State Fire Marshal's Office, Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The Planning Board may stipulate additional safety requirements.
An applicant for multiple dwellings bears the burden of proof that there would be no undue adverse effects on the aquifer, ferry, parking, roads, public facilities, etc.