Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, there is hereby created a H Resort-Hotel Zone for the purpose of being applied to areas to accommodate the needs and desires of visitors, tourists and transient guests.

(a) Purpose.

(1) It applies to specific areas where public roads and public utilities are available or where suitable alternative private facilities are assured. It may apply to a single isolated hotel or resort with or without a commercial mall or shopping section.

(2) This Zone provides for high-intensity development in a compatible arrangement of structures and uses in a unique setting. It shall be designed to promote a superior level of convenience, comfort and amenity within the zone; to encourage safe and pleasant pedestrian circulation; to preserve existing attractions; and to assure beneficial visual relationships from principal viewpoints.

(3) Development shall be designed to establish an open character, with higher portions of buildings well spaced and oriented with respect to principal views from within the zone. Pedestrian circulation systems shall form a convenient and coordinated network through buildings and landscaped open spaces, supplementing sidewalks along streets; and where extensive areas of the shoreline are in such configuration as to allow it conveniently, walkways and/or bikeways shall be

provided along the waterfront on both public and private property.

(4) Since hotels complement other activities in this zone without creating excessive automotive traffic, it is intended to permit higher floor-area ratios for hotel uses than for other uses within the zone.

(5) Since the zone is separated from major parking facilities in adjoining areas, it is intended that off-street parking requirements shall apply within its boundaries. It is further intended in view of the unusual visual exposure that adverse visual influences such as excessive signs, inappropriate lighting and open-storage shall be prohibited.

(b) Permitted Uses.

(1) Cultural and recreational facilities, hotels, restaurants, tourism related shops and offices, dwellings, parks, marinas, zoos, amusement activities and supportive services.

(2) Permitted Accessory uses and Structures. Uses and structures which are customarily accessory and clearly complementary to permitted principal uses and structures shall be permitted. Service stations shall be permitted only within, and as accessory to, parking garages containing two hundred fifty (250) or more parking spaces.

SOURCE: GC § 17110 enacted by P.L. 14-041.

2017 NOTE: Subitem designations added in subsection (a) pursuant to the authority of 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606.