(a)   Will be designed, constructed, operated and maintained so as to be harmonious and appropriate in appearance with the existing or intended character of the general vicinity and that such use will not change the essential character of the same area.

   (b)   Will not be hazardous or detrimental to existing or future neighboring uses.

   (c)   Will be served adequately by essential public facilities and services such as highways, streets, police and fire protection, drainage, refuse disposal and schools; or that the person or agencies responsible for the establishment of the proposed park shall be able to provide adequately any such services.

   (d)   Will not create excessive additional requirements at public cost for public facilities and services and will not be detrimental to the economic welfare of the community.

   (e)   Will be consistent with the intent and purpose of this Zoning Ordinance and the Comprehensive Plan.

   (f)   Will have vehicular approaches to the property which shall be so designed as not to create an interference with traffic on surrounding public streets or roads.

   (g)   Will not result in the destruction, loss or damage of natural, scenic or historic features of major importance.

   (h)   Will meet all applicable codes and ordinances.

      (Ord. 33-72. Passed 8-7-72.)

   (a)   Not later than thirty days after the date upon which Council has approved an application to amend the Zoning Map and thereby establish a Mobile Home Park District, the property owner of record shall cause a deed restriction to be placed upon the property and recorded in the County Recorder's Office. Such deed restriction shall read as follows:

      "The present owner or owners, and all successors, grantees and assignees shall comply with all Federal, State and local laws prohibiting discrimination or segregation by reason of race, religion, color or national origin in the sale, lease rental, use or occupation of all properties or any part thereof located within the boundaries of the mobile home park."

   (b)   Evidence that such deed restriction has been recorded shall be required to be shown prior to acceptance by the Planning Commission of an application for a mobile home park plan approval for the property involved.

   (a)   Any enlargement or extension to any existing mobile home park shall require application for a zoning certificate, as if it were a new establishment.

   (b)   No enlargements or extensions to any mobile home park shall be permitted unless that existing facility conforms substantially with all requirements for new construction for such an establishment.

   (c)   Except as provided in this chapter, no person shall park or occupy any mobile home on any premises in any district outside an approved mobile home park. The parking of an unoccupied mobile home in an accessory private garage building, or in a rear yard shall be permitted in any district, provided no living quarters shall be maintained or any business conducted in such mobile home while so parked or stored.

   (a)   "Density" means a unit of measurement and means the number of dwelling units per acre of land.

   (b)   "Density, gross" means the number of dwelling units per acre of the total land within boundaries of the area concerned.

   (c)   "Density, net" means the number of dwelling units per acre of land when the acreage involved includes only the land devoted to residential uses.

   (d)   "Mobile home" means any vehicle manufactured as a single-family dwelling, comprised of one or more units but excluding recreational vehicles, which has been designed and manufactured for transportation on the public streets and highways on its own wheels arriving at the site complete and ready for occupancy where it is to be occupied as a dwelling except for normal unpacking, assembly operations and connections to utilities. The towing hitch, wheels, axles and other running gear may be removed for the mobile home's placement on its pad and may be reinstalled to permit the mobile home's further movement. The mobile home, without losing its designation as such, for reasons of public and personal safety shall be mechanically affixed, or put into place, to its pad, or levelers placed thereon, but in such a manner as to permit its release without substantial alteration. This definition shall not include a modular home.

   (e)   "Mobile home pad" means that portion of a mobile home site that is designed, constructed and improved in such a manner as to provide a base upon which a mobile home shall rest, and which also serves as a base upon which blocks or other materials are placed to assist in leveling the floor of the mobile home and provide a temporary type of foundation.

   (f)   "Mobile home park" means one or more contiguous parcels of land under a single management which have been designed and developed in such a manner as to provide individual mobile home sites for one or more mobile homes. The term "mobile home park" shall mean the same as a trailer park, trailer court or trailer camp.

   (g)   "Mobile home site" means an area of land within a mobile home park that is designed and developed in such a manner as to provide a location for one mobile home.

   (h)   "Modular home" means a structure manufactured and intended for use as a dwelling, and which may be comprised of one or more units transported on a vehicle of some type from the place of manufacture to a site where it is to be occupied as a dwelling, and where assembly operations on a permanent foundation and connections to utilities will be made. This definition shall not include a mobile home.

   (i)   "Recreational vehicles" means a vehicle manufactured or modified to contain temporary living quarters for travel, recreation or vacation purposes. This definition shall include but is not necessarily limited to campers, travel trailers, truck campers and motor homes.

   (j)   "Roadway" means a privately owned and maintained strip of land designed, improved and intended to be used for vehicular traffic.

   (a)   One permanent type house or modular home if such house or home is to be occupied by a resident-manager.

   (b)   Buildings or permanent type structures used exclusively to provide services for occupants of the park such as a recreation building, swimming pool and bath house, laundry room, mobile home park office, storage rooms and the like.

   (c)   Accessory buildings or structures that are clearly incidental and attached to a mobile home such as a carport, cabana, Florida room and the like.

   (d)   Advertising signs subject to all of the following provisions:

   (a)   A modular home of any type, except a single-family dwelling to be occupied by a resident-manager of the park.

   (b)   Boats and recreational vehicles of any type, except those owned by occupants of the park and stored in the area within the park designed and intended as a common storage area for such vehicles.

   (c)   Repair or sale of vehicles of any type, including mobile homes, except for the repair or sale of an individual vehicle by the owner or occupant thereof.

   (d)   Buildings or permanent type structures for uses other than those listed as permitted uses.

   (e)   Any advertising sign other than that listed as a permitted uses.

      (Ord. 33-72. Passed 8-7-72.)

   (a)   Five copies of an application form provided for this purpose shall be completed by the applicant and submitted to the Planning Commission.

   (b)   The application shall be accompanied by a receipt from the City Office indicating that a processing fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) has been paid. This fee is to cover the costs involved in reviewing the plans, and shall be in addition to any other required fees for other services. Once this processing fee is paid, it shall not be refundable or transferable as a credit towards any other required fee, nor shall payment of the fee imply in any way that the plans are to be approved.

   (c)   The application shall be accompanied by five sets of complete plans and one sepia copy, and whatever additional documents are necessary, to show all of the following information:

   (a)   Approving it as submitted and issuing a plan approval;

   (b)   Approving it as revised by mutual agreement and issuing a plan approval; or

   (c)   Denying it and refusing to issue a plan approval.

   (a)   He shall issue an order to abate the violation and to comply with all applicable provisions of the Zoning Ordinance.

   (b)   He shall cause the property to again be inspected not later than thirty days from the date of issuance of the above order to determine if the violation has been abated. If the violation is still in existence, then he shall refer the matter to the Law Director for prosecution.

      (Ord. 33-72. Passed 8-7-72.)

   (a)   If the mobile home park has been developed in full compliance with all development standards contained in this chapter, then the Building and Zoning Inspector shall submit an application on behalf of, and at no cost to, the property owner to change the zoning classification on the property to MHP, Mobile Home Park District.

   (b)   If the mobile home park has been developed in such a manner that it is not in full compliance with all development standards contained in this chapter, then it may be continued as a nonconforming use subject to all of the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance pertaining to nonconforming property, but shall not be enlarged or expanded in accordance with the provisions of the following section.

   (a)   If a fence is used, such fence shall have a height of not less than four feet and shall be maintained in a neat, clean, and orderly manner; or

   (b)   If the shrubbery is used, it shall be of a type and planted in such a manner that the shrubs will reach a height of not less than four feet in a year's time, and will grow towards each other to result in a solid hedge in a year's time. Such hedge shall be kept trimmed and maintained in a neat, clean and orderly manner.

   (c)   Either the fence or shrubbery shall be of a type that is seventy-five percent (75%) or more opaque and shall be approved prior to installation by the Building and Zoning Inspector to assure compliance with the standards on file in his office.

   (a)   The recreation area may be composed of more than one specific area.

   (b)   The recreation area may consist of open land, or land set aside for visiting mobile libraries or similar facilities, or land containing tennis courts, putting greens, and the like, or land containing swimming pools, club-houses, and similar structures or any combination of such recreational facilities.

   (c)   The total amount of land to be set aside for recreation purposes shall be not less than ten percent (10%) of the area of land to be used for a Mobile Home Park.

   (d)   A portion of the required ten percent (10%), not to exceed one-half, may be located within certain of the Mobile Home Park yard areas subject to compliance with all of the applicable provisions contained in the section of this article.

   (a)   The open storage of yard maintenance equipment, household effects, garbage and trash cans, butane gas tanks and other items similar in nature to those listed shall be prohibited.

   (b)   Enclosed storage in which residents of the park may store houshold and personal effects shall be provided, and such storage facilities shall be designed, in such a manner as to provide not less than 200 cubic feet of storage area for such mobile home site in the park. Such storage facilities may be located on each mobile home park site, or in a centralized location not more than 500 feet from the mobile home sites they are intended to serve.

   (c)   In addition to the above storage facilities, each mobile home site shall be provided with an on-site enclosed storage facility with a capacity of not less than fifty cubic feet in which garbage and trash cans may be stored.

   (d)   An open storage area for the storage of boats and recreational vehicles shall be provided and maintained by the mobile home park owner. Such storage area shall be readily accessible to all residents of the park, shall be surrounded by screening of some type to result in seventy-five percent (75%) opaqueness, and shall be of such a size as to provide 100 square feet of open storage space for each mobile home site in the park.

   (e)   Prior to installation of the screening material, plans showing the proposed materials to be used and method of installation shall be submitted to the Building and Zoning Inspector for approval to assure compliance with the standards on file in his office.

      (Ord. 33-72. Passed 8-7-72.)

   (b)   The improved width shall be constructed of asphaltic concrete or Portland cement concrete.

   (c)   Curbs and gutters, made of Portland cement concrete, shall be required along each side of the improved portion whenever such improved portion has a required width of thirty feet or more. Such curbs and gutters shall be of the integral type.

   (d)   Improved roadways with a required width of less than thirty feet may be of the V section type, or the crown type with curbs and gutters each side, whichever is preferred by the developer.

   (e)   Local access one-way roadways shall be limited to:

   (f)   No portion of any roadway located between the improved portion and the boundary lines of the roadway shall be used for any purpose other than sidewalks, driveways, lawns, the planting of shrubbery or the installation of street lights and underground utility lines.

   (g)   The design and improvement of all proposed roadways shall be subject to the approval of the City Engineer and the Division of Streets.

      (Ord. 33-72. Passed 8-7-72.)

   (a)   All such walks shall be made of Portland cement concrete and shall have a thickness of not less than four inches.

   (b)   Common sidewalks, with a minimum width of four feet, intended to provide pedestrian circulation from one mobile home to another or to various locations throughout the park, shall be required to serve all mobile homes and common use areas that front upon or have access from a roadway improved with curbs and gutters. Such sidewalks shall be located in either of the following locations, depending upon the design of the park and the preference of the developer:

   (c)   A private sidewalk, with a minimum width of two feet, intended to provide a walkway from a mobile home to a roadway or the common sidewalk system, shall be required to serve each mobile home site.