These regulations shall govern the location and occupancy of manufactured homes within the city. All manufactured homes located within and outside of manufactured home parks and all travel parks shall be governed by the regulations within this article.

(Ord. No. 548, § 20.01, 1-8-01)

(a)

Building and construction code compliance.

(1)

Age limit. No mobile home or manufactured home more than ten (10) years of age shall be placed on a lot within the municipal limits of the City of Cairo, except upon approval by the mayor and council. The mayor and council shall establish procedures and standards so as to permit mayor and council to make uniform decisions regarding the exceptions.

(2)

HUD approval. All manufactured homes placed within the municipal limits of the city shall bear an insignia issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) certifying that the unit has been inspected and is constructed in conformance with the Federal Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards in effect on the date of manufacture.

(3)

Compliance with codes and ordinances of the city. All manufactured homes placed within the city shall be in compliance with all other applicable codes and ordinances adopted by the city.

(b)

Utilities and services.

(1)

Electrical. All electrical work and wiring done on manufactured homes located within the city and served by the electrical distribution system shall be under the rules and regulations as published in the Code and promulgated by the governing authority and under the direction of the electrical inspector.

(2)

Water and sewer. All plumbing done on manufactured homes located within the city shall be under the rules and regulations as published in the Code and as promulgated by the governing authority and under the direction of the plumbing inspector. Provided, however, that prior to the permanent occupancy of a manufactured home within the city such home shall be connected to an approved water source and an approved sewage system in such a manner as to comply with state adopted building codes, insofar as they are applicable.

(c)

Fire and safety.

(1)

Rules and regulations. All manufactured homes shall be under rules and regulations as published in the Code for fire prevention and any such rules and regulations promulgated by the governing authority. Said rules and regulations to be administered under the direction of the city fire marshall and building officials.

(2)

Safety tie-downs required. All manufactured homes placed on a lot for permanent occupancy within the municipal limits of the city shall be attached with tie-downs, in such a manner as to comply with the requirements set forth in mobile home tie down standards of the standard building code.

(3)

Skirting. At the time of installation, all manufactured homes within the city must have installed a skirting which completely encloses the undercarriage. For those homes located within manufactured home parks, acceptable materials include masonry, stone, and may include metal or other materials compatible with the siding of the particular manufactured home unit. All manufactured homes located outside of manufactured home parks must have installed a permanent masonry skirting. Masonry material must be used if any part of such manufactured home is over thirty (30) inches from ground level regardless of location. The city building official must approve all skirting.

(4)

Foundations. All manufactured homes placed within the city for permanent occupancy shall be placed on approved permanent foundations and constructed according to state adopted building codes, insofar as they are applicable. The city building official will inspect foundations.

(5)

Undercarriage. The undercarriage (wheels, axles, tires, and tongue) shall be removed from each manufactured home placed for permanent residency on a residential lot.

(d)

Permits and fees.

(1)

Building permit required. All manufactured homes intended for placement on a lot within the city must first obtain a building permit and in so doing comply with all applicable regulations of the code. Such permit shall be valid for a period of three (3) months and shall be accompanied by a plat showing the approved location of the home or proposed construction.

(2)

Additions. Any additions to a manufactured home or accessory building constructed on a lot shall comply with the requirements of the building, electrical, plumbing, and gas codes.

(3)

Inspection approval. Before a certificate of occupancy is issued, the required permits and inspection approval must be obtained from the building department.

(4)

Fees. There shall be charged and collected by the city such fees and costs as are authorized by the code or as promulgated by the governing authority for the permits, inspections, and services provided by the city in accordance with this chapter.

(Ord. No. 548, § 20.02, 1-8-01; Ord. No. 644, § 1, 8-14-06; Ord. No. 668, § 1, 8-27-07)

Any travel trailer located within the city shall meet the following general requirements:

(a)

Occupancy. For sites specifically designed for travel trailers within travel trailer parks, the residential occupancy of a travel trailer shall be limited to a short term occupancy of one hundred eighty (180) days. Each travel trailer shall be owned by its occupant as no rental travel trailers shall be permitted.

(b)

Storage. Travel trailers, when stored on a residential lot, shall be located at least ten (10) feet from adjoining property lines and at least ten (10) feet from any residence unless stored within a portion of the dwelling or accessory structure. No plumbing facilities (both water and sewerage) in such trailers may be connected while they are stored. Storage of same on public rights-of-way is hereby prohibited. When a travel trailer is stored on a lot in any residential district it shall not be utilized as a residence or occupied by household members, their guests, or as a rental unit.

(c)

Density. A maximum of eight (8) travel trailer stands per acre is allowed.

(d)

Walks.

1.

General requirements: All travel trailer park developments shall be provided with safe and convenient, pedestrian accesses of adequate width for their intended use and same shall be durable and convenient to maintain.

2.

Common walk system: A common walk system shall be provided and maintained between locations where pedestrian traffic is concentrated. Such common walks shall have a minimum width of three and one-half (3½) feet.

3.

Individual walk: All travel trailer stands shall be connected to common walks, or to streets, or to driveways, or to parking spaces. Such individual walks shall have a minimum width of two (2) feet.

(e)

Travel trailer parks: Each travel trailer park development shall be required to be provided with the following minimum accommodations:

1.

Interior street access: Each stand shall be provided with access frontage of at least twenty (20) feet.

2.

Electric power supply: Each stand shall be provided with a properly grounded, waterproofed electrical receptacle. A properly sized over-current device shall be installed as a part of each power outlet. Said fixtures shall meet the standards established by applicable city codes.

3.

Stand identification: A property and street number designation or other appropriate numbering device properly identifying each travel stand shall be placed at the interior side lot line at a point ten (10) to fifteen (15) feet from the interior road system of the park. Such device shall be clearly visible from the street and shall be embossed with reflectorized glaze for the numbers. Such numbers shall be a minimum of three (3) inches in height.

4.

Each stand shall be constructed so that same shall be connected to the city sanitary sewer system.

5.

All access streets shall be paved or have a prepared all-weather surface as may be determined by the city building inspector according to the quantity of traffic that will be using the street. The design of such access streets shall be consistent with the requirements of the city regarding access and site distance.

6.

Each stand shall be constructed so that same shall be connected to the city water supply system. A fire hydrant shall be placed so that all stands located within the travel trailer park are within four hundred (400) feet of an operating fire hydrant.

7.

All water, sewer, or gas line shall be buried a minimum of eighteen (18) inches below the finished ground surface of the travel trailer park. Each stand shall have an adequate valve system so as to permit disconnection of utility service to the travel trailer. If overhead service lines are provided within the travel trailer park, such line shall be a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet above the grade of interior streets and placed so that no wires extend over a travel trailer parking stand.

8.

All recreation areas, park entrances, park streets, and pedestrian easements shall be illuminated to provide at least three-tenths ( 3/10 ) footcandle of lighting.

9.

Construction and operation of the trailer park shall permit garbage and refuge service shall conform with all city ordinances.

10.

All public dedicated easements shall be of proper size for their respective intended purpose and shall be provided within the travel trailer park to permit adequate service of travel trailer stands.

11.

There shall be a minimum of thirty-five (35) feet of green buffer space between the travel trailer park and city streets or adjacent land owners.

(Ord. No. 548, § 20.03, 1-8-01; Ord. No. 709, § 1, 5-11-09)

The following establishments of a commercial nature may be permitted as customary accessory uses in a travel trailer park, provided such uses do not occupy more than ten (10) percent of the area of the park, are located a minimum distance of one hundred (100) feet from any adjoining property line or street or highway right-of-way, and are primarily intended for the convenience of and service to the occupants of the park:

(a)

Coin-operated laundry.

(b)

Coin-operated vending machines of types allowed under applicable codes of the city, provided such are located within a building and are not visible from the street or from adjoining property lines.

(c)

One (1) or more signs identifying the name of the park and the services provided therein; signs regulating traffic or provided for the convenience and welfare of park residents.

(Ord. No. 548, § 20.04, 1-8-01)

All manufactured home parks located within the city shall meet the following general requirements:

(a)

Establishment of manufactured home parks.

(1)

From and after the adoption of this chapter [Ordinance No. 548], each proposed manufactured home park development shall be presented in site plan form by the developer to the planning commission/mayor and city council for review and approval and shall conform to the minimum design and improvement standards required herein. Site development plans of the proposed manufactured home park shall include at least the following items:

a.

A site plan at a scale no smaller than one (1) inch equal to fifty (50) feet.

b.

The title under which the developer is to be recorded, the legal description of the land to be developed, the name of the present owner and the name and address of the technical author of the plan.

c.

All property lines and dimensions; the location and dimensions of each building and unit.

d.

The layout and location of off-street parking, total number of spaces, ingress and egress lanes, pedestrian ways, sidewalks and curb lines.

e.

The proposed method of water supply, sewage disposal and storm drainage and other data as may be required to clearly indicate the general design of said utility services.

f.

All proposed uses of property and buildings to be developed shall be indicated on the plan.

(2)

No private construction or public improvements shall commence on any land to be used as a manufactured home park prior to the approval and certification of the required development plans.

(3)

A person, firm or corporation desiring to develop a manufactured home park within the city shall provide appropriate copies of a sketch plan of a proposed layout which shall conform to the minimum requirements stated herein and shall file said copies of said sketch plan with the planning commission for review.

(b)

Expansions of manufactured home parks. A person, firm or corporation desiring to expand a manufactured home park to include more manufactured homes or manufactured home sites, shall submit plans and specifications for such improvements to the planning commission for review prior to initiating construction and improvements.

(c)

Design. The design of a manufactured home park shall conform to the following design requirements:

(1)

Setback. The manufactured home park shall be so designed that manufactured homes (and travel trailers) and their accessory structures shall be a minimum distance of twenty-five (25) feet from adjoining property lines, ten (10) feet from internal park streets and at least twenty-five (25) feet from any publicly dedicated street. Manufactured home stands shall be designed so as to provide a distance of at least thirty (30) feet between manufactured homes.

(2)

Access. The manufactured home park shall front upon a public street. Each manufactured home site and its parking area shall have direct access to the internal street system of the park.

(3)

Streets. Streets within a manufactured home park shall be privately owned, privately constructed and privately maintained. Such private streets shall be well drained and provided with a hard surface treatment with a minimum surface of ten (10) feet for one-way streets and twenty (20) feet for two-way streets.

(4)

Parking. Each manufactured home stand shall be provided with a minimum of two (2) off-street parking spaces. Parking on interior streets within a park is hereby prohibited. The required front yard may be used for the minimum parking.

(5)

Minimum area of tract. A manufactured home park shall have a minimum size of five (5) acres.

(6)

Length of residential occupancy. No space within a manufactured home park shall be rented for residential use of a manufactured home except for periods of thirty (30) days or longer.

(7)

Manufactured home inspections. It shall be the initial responsibility of each manufactured home or trailer park operator to notify the building official to inspect manufactured homes being placed within the confines of any park under this jurisdiction, control or supervisions, for compliance with the provisions of this article, prior to the placement of any such manufactured home on its stand and within such park and to the connection of utility services to and occupancy of the manufactured home.

(8)

Issuance of permit. At least once each year, the building official at his/her convenience shall inspect each manufactured home park and the manufactured home units within said parks to determine that same are in full compliance with the codes of the city. The building official shall issue a permit for such use for each manufactured home park and each manufactured home unit which in the course of each such inspection he/she finds to be in full compliance with the requirements of this chapter, and such permit shall be valid for a period of one (1) year from the date of its issue.

(Ord. No. 548, § 20.05, 1-8-01)

Manufactured home parks constructed or reconstructed within the city shall be provided by the developer with the following minimum improvements:

(a)

Sewage: The manufactured home park shall be provided with an approval sewage collection system.

(b)

Water: A potable water supply shall be provided by the park operator. If city water is available at the proposed site, water service shall be connected to the systems and fire hydrants shall be placed within four hundred (400) feet of each manufactured home stand. If the proposed park is located within one thousand (1,000) feet of a public system, the owner or developer shall promptly enter into negotiations to receive service and shall take all steps necessary to promptly obtain same.

(c)

Easement: Public dedicated easements of proper size for their respective intended purpose shall be provided within the park if individual manufactured home strands and accessory park uses are to be serviced by a public utility system.

(d)

Utility placement: All water, sewer or gas lines shall be buried a minimum of eighteen (18) inches below the finished ground surface of the manufactured home park and shall be provided with adequate valve systems to follow the cutoff of utility service to a manufactured home space at the manufactured home space and at the entrance of the utility service from the space to the trunk line of the utility system. If overhead service lines are provided within the park, such lines shall be a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet above the grade of interior streets and so placed that no wires extend over a manufactured home space.

(e)

Lighting: All recreation areas, park entrances, park streets and pedestrian easements shall be illuminated to provide at least three-tenths (0.3) footcandles of lighting,

(f)

Garbage and refuse: Garbage and refuse service shall conform with all city ordinances.

(Ord. No. 548, § 20.06, 1-8-01)

Any nonconforming manufactured home park in the city which becomes vacant and remains unoccupied due to abandonment or discontinuance for a period of six (6) months shall not begin new operations until the park is brought into compliance with these regulations. All nonconforming manufactured home parks which are in existence on the effective date of this chapter, shall be required to meet all the conditions set forth in this article within one (1) year from the effective date of this chapter.

(Ord. No. 548, § 20.07, 1-8-01)

(a)

Location of manufactured homes.

(1)

All manufactured homes (single- or double-wide) will be permitted only in R-1, single-family residential districts; R-2, two-family residential districts; or R-3, multiple-family residential districts.

(2)

Manufactured homes (single- or double-wide) will be permitted in R-1, single family residential districts, provided the same must be at least seven hundred (700) square feet in size.

(3)

Manufactured homes (single- or double-wide) of less than seven hundred (700) square feet in size will only be permitted in manufactured home parks.

(b)

Reserved.

(Ord. No. 548, § 20.08, 1-8-01; Ord. No. 644, § 2, 8-14-06; Ord. No. 709, § 2, 5-11-09)

The procedures set forth for approval of a PUD Development as set forth in sections 22-135 to 22-138 shall be applicable to travel trailer parks.

(Ord. No. 709, § 3, 5-11-09)