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Daphne City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XXVII.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK PROVISIONS

27-1 - General.

The following regulations apply to all developments provided for the accommodation of transient recreational vehicles including travel trailers, campers, small mobile homes used for vacation purposes, motor homes, and similar transient residential vehicles.

Recreation vehicle parks are uses permitted in R-5, Mobile Home Residential, and B-2, General Business, districts subject to the approval of the planning commission and compliance with the requirements of the following provisions.

27-2 - Minimum requirements.

The following shall apply:

(a)

No recreational vehicle park shall be located without direct access to a city, county, state, or federal highway with a minimum width of not less than fifty (50) feet and shall not direct traffic into adjacent residential districts.

(b)

The minimum lot area per park shall be two (2) acres.

(c)

Use of spaces in recreation vehicles parks shall be limited to travel trailers, mobile homes, motor homes, and campers.

(d)

Users of the spaces shall meet all other applicable laws. Spaces shall be rented by the day or week only and an account of such space shall remain in the same trailer park for a period of not less than ninety (90) days.

(e)

Management headquarters, recreational facilities, toilets, showers, laundry facilities and other uses and structures customarily incidental to operation of a recreational vehicle park are permitted as accessory uses in any district which recreation vehicle parks are allowed provided:

(1)

Such establishments and the parking area primarily related to their operations shall not occupy more than ten (10) percent of the park area.

(2)

Such establishments shall be restricted in their use to occupants of the park.

(3)

Such establishments shall present no visible evidence of their commercial character which would attract customers other than occupants of the park.

(4)

No space shall be so located that any part intended for occupancy for sleeping purposes shall be within thirty (30) feet of the right-of-way line of any major, collector or minor street.

(5)

Recreational vehicle parks designed for temporary use by mobile homes for recreational or other purposes shall conform to applicable Baldwin County Health Department regulations, provided that the plan for a proposed camp site, extension, or re-plan of an existing camp site shall be submitted to the planning commission for approval prior to construction.