Note: Prior ordinance history: Ord. 215.
The city council of the city of Rancho Mirage ("city") does hereby find and affirm that time-share or vacation ownership resort projects might differ in many aspects from other transient visitor facilities as well as residences in types of construction, forms of ownership, patterns of use and occupancy, and commercial management, and the city council determines that the unique features of the typical time-share projects can have effects on both the areas surrounding such use and the whole of the city. Therefore, this chapter and related sections in Chapter 17.08 are intended to protect the health, safety, peace and welfare of the public by providing additional land use and property development regulations for time share and vacation ownership resort projects within the city of Rancho Mirage.
(Ord. 698 § 1, 1998)
The following terms used herein shall have the meaning indicated:
The term "occupancy" means the right to use, possess, enjoy
and/or enter upon real property or improvements located thereon or
any portion thereof.
A "time-share estate" is a right of occupancy in a time-share
project which is coupled with an estate in the real property.
A "time-share interval" is the period or length of time of
occupancy or use into which a timeshare project has been divided.
A "time-share project" is one in which a purchaser receives
the right in perpetuity, for life, or for a term of years, to the
recurrent, exclusive or nonexclusive use or occupancy of a lot, parcel,
unit, room(s) or segment of real property, annually or on some other
seasonal or periodic basis, for a period of time that has been or
will be allotted from the use or occupancy periods into which the
project has been divided. Time-share project, shall include, but not
be limited to time-share estate, interval ownership, vacation license,
golf club membership, gymnasium membership, social club, vacation
lease, club membership, time share use, hotel condominium, or uses
of a similar nature wherein a right to occupy is represented by either
a time share estate or a time share right to use.
A "time-share unit" is the portion of the real property or
real property improvement in a timeshare project the use or occupancy
of which is divided into time-share intervals.
A "time-share use" is a license or contractual or membership
right of occupancy and/or use in a time-share project which is not
coupled with an estate in the real property. A time-share use shall
include any contractual right of occupancy which does not fall within
the definition of a time-share estate, including, without limitation,
a vacation license, prepaid hotel reservation, use agreement, club
membership, limited partnership or vacation bond.
means a time share project located within a resort hotel
(Rs-H) zone.
(Ord. 698 § 1, 1998)
There shall be no time-share projects and/or uses in the city of Rancho Mirage except such vacation ownership resort projects permitted and regulated only in a resort hotel (Rs-H) zone as set forth in Chapter 17.08.
(Ord. 698 § 1, 1998)
Conversion of any existing use into time-share or vacation ownership
resort units shall be prohibited in all zones and areas of the city
of Rancho Mirage.
(Ord. 698 § 1, 1998)
