A.   This chapter specifies the requirements of the City to maintain and encourage a suitable family environment and affordable housing throughout the community, to ensure the health, safety, convenience, and general well being of the City. This chapter also specifies the requirements of the City providing for the use of mobile and manufactured structures for nonresidential uses, including, but not limited to, business offices and portable classrooms.

      1.   Manufactured and modular homes are permitted in the Residential (R) Zone, subject to the requirements stated in section 8-10-2 of this chapter.

      2.   Nonresidential mobile structures, manufactured structures and modular structures are permitted in the Commercial (C) and Light Industrial (LI) Zones, subject to the requirements stated in section 8-10-2 of this chapter.

   B.   Mobile, manufactured and modular homes or structures not meeting the requirements of section 8-10-2 of this chapter will only be allowed to be sited in existing manufactured/mobile home parks. (Ord. 416, 3-21-2018)

   A.   Residential Uses, Outside Of An Existing Manufactured Or Mobile Home Park: Manufactured or modular homes may be used as a place of human habitation outside of a manufactured or mobile home park in the City upon compliance with the standards set forth herein:

      1.   The mobile or manufactured home shall enclose a space of not less than eight hundred fifty (850) square feet.

      2.   The mobile or manufactured home shall be placed on an excavated and backfilled foundation and enclosed at the perimeter such that the home is located not more than twelve inches (12") above grade, except when placed on a basement foundation.

      3.   The mobile or manufactured home shall have a pitched roof with a slope of three feet (3') in height for each twelve feet (12') in width, or greater.

      4.   The manufactured home shall have exterior siding and roofing which in color, material and appearance is similar to the exterior siding and roofing material commonly used on residential dwellings within the City or which is comparable to the predominant materials used on surrounding dwellings as determined by the Administrator.

      5.   The structure shall be set in accordance with the requirements of the State of Idaho Division of Building Safety.

      6.   The structure shall comply with all setback requirements and all other standards and requirements of this Code as if it were a permanent structure built on-site.

   B.   Residential Uses, Within Existing Manufactured Or Mobile Home Park:

      1.   The mobile or manufactured home shall have a pitched roof with a slope of three feet (3') in height for each twelve feet (12') in width, or greater.

      2.   The manufactured home shall have exterior siding and roofing which in color, material and appearance is similar to the exterior siding and roofing material commonly used on residential dwellings within the City or which is comparable to the predominant materials used on surrounding dwellings as determined by the Administrator.

      3.   The structure shall be set in accordance with the requirements of the State of Idaho Division of Building Safety.

      4.   The structure shall comply with all setback requirements and all other standards and requirements of this Code as if it were a permanent structure built on-site.

   C.   Non-Residential Uses: Commercial coach structures may be used for non-residential purposes, to serve any use permitted within the zone it is located, in compliance with the standards set forth herein:

      1.   The structure shall be set in accordance with the requirements of the State of Idaho Division of Building Safety.

      2.   The structure shall comply with all setback requirements and all other standards and requirements of this Code as if it were a permanent structure built on-site. (Ord. 416, 3-21-2018)