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:
Occupancy.
The term "occupancy" means the right to use, possess, enjoy and/or enter upon real property or improvements located thereon or any portion thereof.
Time-share estate.
A "time-share estate" is a right of occupancy in a time-share project which is coupled with an estate in the real property.
Time-share interval.
A "time-share interval" is the period or length of time of occupancy or use into which a timeshare project has been divided.
Time-share project.
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.
Time-share unit.
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.
Time-share use.
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.
"Vacation ownership resort"
means a time share project located within a resort hotel (Rs-H) zone.
(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)