Reports are that Marriott is looking to locate a hotel/timeshare on the Island. Rumor also has it that management at the Beachcomber Resort is trying to convert the older mobile home section into a hotel/timeshare. Anybody know or heard anything??????????
Village, hotel project before board
By Brian DiTullio
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 10:50 PM MDT
The English Village owner and the Marriott Corporation both want a few changes to city zoning codes.
A development plan for the English Village and an unrelated proposed high-rise hotel at Pittsburg Point are scheduled to dominate today's meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission.
John Parrott and Tom Kack are listed as the applicants for two requested text amendments to zoning codes that would allow for unlimited stays and buildings up to 220 feet high in resort-related areas.
Parrott represents CHOP LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company.
In a letter to the city, they state their intention to build a 400-unit, 20-story high rise Marriott Timeshare Hotel with all amenities on 17 acres of land located at Pittsburg Point on the Island.
Today's News-Herald was unable to contact CHOP LLC on Tuesday for further comment.
Kack has been listed as a legal representative of Chris Reed, owner of the English Village.
Conceptual drawings unveiled last year by the former owners of the English Village showed multi-leveled condominiums being erected on the sight as well as a clock tower. This drawing sparked immediate negative reaction from council members and the public.
Reed said on Tuesday that there is a misunderstanding about the term "condominium."
"It's a method of ownership, we are planning a hotel," said Reed. "Our intent is not to do any kind of permanent residence."
In a letter to the city, Kack states he's interested in clarifying the definition of "condominium," and that Meritan, LLC, the company formed to develop the English Village "can not engage in residential use of its property and that others may not do the same on their property."
Kack goes on to say "The English Village needs longer stays and I expect the City would like to accommodate winter and other longer stay visitors to foster tourist income and longer stays for consultants etc. at hotels and motels to foster bed tax and sales tax dollars and the local economy."
Kack also gives some recommendations on how the city can "police" the zoning code and ensure there are no permanent residency structures built in the area.
Reed said he is hoping his request is not being confused with the Marriott request.
City staff took the applicant's requests under consideration and came up with some analysis.
"The current definition of 'hotel'is not well written and vague with regard to maximum length of stay," states the report. "Many hotel stays in Lake Havasu City exceed the traditional transient, daily, weekly stay, especially in the winter months."
City staff addresses the height exception request by noting that few properties in the city meet the 10-acre minimum required for such an exception.
Staff is recommending the Planning and Zoning Commission create a definition for a Resort-Hotel and add the new definition to the list of permitted uses. They also recommend allowing sites of only seven acres or more be eligible for the height exceptions.
The meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Police Facility (2360 McCulloch Blvd.).
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