The MH Manufactured Home District is established for the purpose of ensuring and promoting the living environment for occupants of manufactured homes. The MH Manufactured Home District is characterized by single-family, manufactured home parks in a landscaped setting with landscaped off-street parking areas. Site improvements, including landscaping shall be provided and designed to minimize the impact on adjacent residential uses. A site development plan is required prior to development. Typical structures include single-family manufactured homes and other accessory uses. Development or use of land in the MH Manufactured Home District is permitted only in accordance with the provisions herein.

(Ord. No. 2019-028, § 2, 9-17-2019)

As used in this Chapter, certain words or phrases are defined as set forth below:

Manufactured home means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, that in the traveling mode is 8 body feet (2438 body mm) or more in width or 40 body feet (12 192 body mm) or more in length, or, where erected on site, is 320 square feet (30 m ² ) or more, and that is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation where connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; except that such term shall include any structure that meets all the requirements of this paragraph except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the secretary (HUD) and complies with the standards established under this Title. For mobile homes built prior to June 15, 1976, a label certifying compliance to the Standard for Mobile Homes, NFPA 501, in effect at the time of manufacture is required. For the purpose of these provisions, a mobile home shall be considered to be a manufactured home.

Manufactured home park shall mean a semi-permanent or permanent location within a MH Manufactured Home District for manufactured homes.

(Ord. No. 2019-028, § 2, 9-17-2019)

Subdivisions, lots, uses, private streets and structures in a manufactured home park which were existing, in use, erected, or created prior to 1974 shall be considered a legal, nonconforming subdivision, lot, use, private street, and structure and shall not be required to comply with any provisions of this Chapter 17.26 when in conflict with an existing condition. By way of example, but not limitation, because manufactured homes are not permanent structures and may be removed from lots, a manufactured home and its accessory structures which are of the same dimensions as a manufactured home and accessory structure that has been removed from a lot in a manufactured home park shall be entitled, regardless of the length of time the lot was vacant, to continue any non-conformity of the prior manufactured home and its accessory structures. This Section 17.26.030 shall be the sole provision governing the continuance of existing uses, subdivisions, lots, private streets and structures in a manufactured home park.

(Ord. No. 2019-028, § 2, 9-17-2019)

The following uses are permitted upon approval of, and in accordance with an approved Site Development Plan (see Chapter 17.38 of this Code):

A.

One single-family manufactured home per lot.

B.

Manufactured home park.

C.

Public facilities.

D.

Home occupation.

E.

Accessory structures and uses.

(Ord. No. 2019-028, § 2, 9-17-2019)

Uses permitted by special review in the MH Manufactured Home District are:

A.

Private campgrounds.

B.

Day care centers.

C.

Public facilities.

D.

Place of worship.

(Ord. No. 2019-028, § 2, 9-17-2019)

Manufactured home park requirements shall be as follows:

A.

Maximum density shall not exceed seven mobile homes per gross acre.

B.

No manufactured home shall be occupied unless situated on a manufactured home space, within a manufactured home park.

C.

Minimum area of lot shall be 5,000 square feet.

D.

Minimum width of lot shall be fifty feet.

E.

Minimum front yard setback:

1.

Principal and accessory structures: Five feet.

F.

Minimum side yard setback:

1.

Principal and accessory structures: Five feet.

2.

Principal and accessory structures: Fifteen feet where lot line is abutting a public right-of-way or where lot line is adjacent to exterior boundary of the manufactured home park.

G.

Minimum rear yard setback:

1.

Principal and accessory structures: Five feet.

2.

Principal and accessory structures: Fifteen feet where lot line is abutting a public right-of-way or where lot line is adjacent to exterior boundary of the manufactured home park.

H.

The minimum required setback shall be measured from the lot line to the foundation of the structure horizontally and perpendicular to the lot line; and the minimum required setback shall be measured from the lot line to the exterior wall of the structure horizontally and perpendicular to the lot line, if there if there is no foundation.

I.

Steps (without decking) and awnings may encroach into the minimum required setbacks.

J.

All manufactured homes and accessory structures or uses shall face upon and take access from an interior roadway.

K.

A manufactured home park shall have two separate entrance and exit roadways; each of which shall be not less than forty feet wide from flow line to flow line, and shall connect to a dedicated public right-of-way and shall be hard surfaced with asphalt or concrete.

L.

Maximum height:

1.

Principal structure: Thirty-five feet.

2.

Accessory structure: Twenty feet.

M.

All trash, refuse and storage shall be kept in closed containers or within a building or area enclosed by a solid fence at least six feet in height.

N.

Wheels may be removed from manufactured homes, but running gear may be removed only for reasonable period of time for repair purposes.

O.

No permanent addition of any kind shall be built onto, nor become part of, any manufactured home. Skirting of a manufactured home is permissible, but such skirting shall not be attached to the manufactured home permanently to the ground, provide harborage for rodents, or create a fire hazard. All manufactured homes must have secure tie-downs or be installed on a permanent foundation for wind and storm protection.

P.

Exposed ground surfaces in all areas of a manufactured home park shall be hard surfaced with asphalt or concrete or other solid material, or shall be protected with vegetative growth which will prevent soil erosion and eliminate dust.

(Ord. No. 2019-028, § 2, 9-17-2019)