A.

Title. This chapter shall be known and may be referred to as the Mobile Home Parks Design Standards.

B.

Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to provide regulations for the location, design and improvement of mobile home parks, as defined herein, in order to promote, protect and secure the public health, safety and general welfare.

C.

Approving Agency. The planning director is designated as the agency charged with the duty of making investigation and reports on design and improvements of proposed mobile home parks, and is authorized to approve, conditionally approve or disapprove maps prepared and filed according to this chapter; to prescribe the kinds, nature and extent of the improvements required to be installed by this chapter and to report to the applicant the action taken.

D.

Reference to Other Laws. Whenever reference is made to any portion of this chapter or other ordinance or statute, such reference applies to all amendments and additions now and hereafter made.

E.

Intent. It is the intent of this chapter to provide regulations for the location, design and improvements of mobile home parks that equal or exceed all applicable state laws. It is declared that in an instance where the provisions of this chapter do not encompass all of the state regulations insofar as the limits of this chapter apply, that such regulations are included and required for conformance as a part of this chapter.

F.

Enforcement of Other Regulations. The provisions of the Mobile Home Parks Act, California Health and Safety Code, Division 13, Part 2.1 and the applicable regulations adopted pursuant thereto by the State Department of Housing and Community Development are adopted as a part of this chapter. It shall be the duty of the building and safety department to enforce all of the provisions of the Act pertaining to construction, alteration or modification of all mobile home parks. It shall be the duty of the department of building and safety to enforce all the provisions pertaining to permits to operate, maintenance, use, occupancy, sanitation and safety of all mobile home parks.

(Amended during 1997 codification; Ord. 75 § 2 (part), 1990; SBCC § 89.0101)

Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 16.08, all terms used in this chapter which are defined in the Mobile Home Parks Act, California Health and Safety Code, Division 13, Part 2.1 and the applicable regulations adopted pursuant thereto by the State Department of Housing and Community Development are used in this chapter as so defined unless, from the context thereof, it clearly appears that a different meaning is intended.

(SBCC § 89.0105)

A.

Compliance with Laws. Each map or plan prepared pursuant to this chapter shall be in accordance with applicable state laws, the provisions of this chapter, and any other ordinance, statute or law pertaining to the establishment of mobile home parks.

B.

Compliance with Plans and Standards. Each map or plan filed pursuant to this chapter shall be in compliance with the officially adopted general plan and any amendment adopted pursuant thereto.

C.

Mobile home park applications shall be reviewed subject to the provisions of Chapter 16.12 of this code.

(Amended during 1997 codification; Ord. 75 § 2 (part), 1990; SBCC § 89.0110)

A.

Compliance to Standards. Any person desiring to enlarge or establish a mobile home park shall meet or exceed the design standards set forth in this chapter.

B.

Locations. Mobile home parks shall be located in accordance with all applicable city ordinances and state laws.

C.

Minimum Areas. Mobile home parks shall be developed on a parcel of land at least three acres in area.

D.

Drainage and Flood Hazard. A mobile home park shall be located on a well-drained site, properly graded to provide for adequate disposition of runoff. Such areas shall be free of flood hazard from external sources. The city engineer may require dedications and improvements which will insure proper protection to the park in accordance with this section.

E.

Streets and Highways. The city engineer may require additional dedication and improvements on streets and highways abutting the proposed mobile home park in accordance with the circulation element of the general plan and established widths of local and collector streets.

F.

Lot Areas and Dimensions. Each mobile home lot shall contain a minimum area of one thousand two hundred (1,200) square feet with a minimum width of thirty (30) feet fronting on a driveway; provided, however, that:

1.

Lots larger than the above minimum sizes may be required where it is determined that said lot size will:

a.

Be consistent with the general pattern established by mobile home parks in the vicinity, or

b.

Be necessary to accommodate trailer coach sizes as stated in the trailer park report submitted.

2.

Lots on curved driveways or cul-de-sacs where lot lines are either converging or diverging from the front to the rear of the lot shall have an average width of at least thirty (30) feet, but in no case shall the frontage on a driveway be less than twenty-five (25) feet.

G.

Clearances. Trailer coaches shall be located so they are at least ten feet apart from side to side, eight feet apart from side to rear, six feet apart from rear to rear, and ten feet from any building, except for accessory buildings used as private toilets or baths for exclusive use of the occupant of the mobile home site. Trailer coach hitches shall face the access driveway.

H.

Minimum Side and Rear Lot Clearances. There shall be minimum side lot clearances totaling ten feet in width; provided, however, that no trailer coach shall be closer than three feet to any side or rear lot line. Where lots abut side or rear yards as defined in subsection (J) of this section, the yard areas may be included as a part of this requirement.

I.

Occupied Area. The occupied area of each mobile home space shall not exceed seventy-five (75) percent of the total area of such mobile home lot. The area shall be deemed to be occupied when covered or occupied by a trailer coach, cabana, vehicle, ramada, awning, closet, cupboard or any other structures.

J.

Yards and Setbacks. The following yards shall be maintained on each mobile home park:

1.

Front yard of at least twenty-five (25) feet in depth, along the public street upon which the mobile home park fronts. This yard shall extend across the entire width of the park;

2.

Side yards of not less than five feet in width along each side boundary line of the mobile home park;

3.

A rear yard of not less than ten feet in depth along the rear boundary line of the mobile home park;

4.

Greater yards or setbacks may be required where, in the opinion of the planning officer, such yards or setbacks are necessary due to topographic conditions, grading, drainage or protection of adjacent property;

5.

No part of any trailer coach shall be located within any yard or required setback area.

K.

Driveways. Driveways shall be designed to provide reasonable and convenient traffic circulation and shall meet the following standards:

1.

No driveway shall be less than thirty-three (33) feet in width if car parking is permitted on one side of the driveway and not less than forty-one (41) feet in width if car parking is permitted on both sides of a driveway;

2.

Driveway widths to provide for parking on one side shall be deemed necessary when lots abut the driveway on one side only. Driveway widths to provide for parking on both sides shall be deemed necessary when lots abut the driveway on both sides;

3.

The entire width of the driveways shall be surfaced with a minimum of two inch thick asphalt, concrete, plant mix or other approved material.

L.

Parking. There shall be provided one parking space on each lot. There shall also be established and maintained within each mobile home park automobile parking area for the use of guests. The number of such spaces shall be equal to one for every ten lots or fraction thereof, within the mobile home park. Each parking space shall be ten by twenty (20) feet in size, plus such additional area as is necessary to afford adequate ingress and egress.

M.

Walkways. Walkways shall be provided to permit reasonably direct access to all lots, service buildings and other areas or buildings used by occupants of the trailers. Collector walkways serving utility buildings, playgrounds and other general areas shall be four feet in width or more and individual entrance walks to each trailer coach site shall be at least two feet in width. All walkways shall be constructed of asphalt, concrete, plant mix or other approved materials which will permit all-weather pedestrian movement.

N.

Enclosures of Mobile Home Park. A wall or fence six feet in height shall be erected and maintained along each side and rear boundary of a mobile home park except along the portion of such side or rear boundary line which either abuts a public street or is within a front yard or side yard adjacent to the street, in which case, a wall or fence may be required. A wall or fence shall be solid and of concrete, brick or other masonry construction, or of chain link metal construction with an evergreen hedge planted. Where, in the opinion of the planning officer, it is unreasonable to require the construction of a fence or wall, the officer, at his discretion, may waive or modify the requirements as specified in this subsection (N).

O.

Service Area (Enclosure). The planning officer may require fencing or screen planting around areas containing garbage, rubbish or waste disposal or ground service or recreational areas as a condition of approval of a mobile home park.

P.

Modifications in Design. Where mobile home parks are submitted for approval which, although not complying with the requirements of design as stated herein, are consistent with the general intent and purpose of this chapter, the city may approve such parks with conditions and restrictions which will insure that the general purposes herein set forth will be satisfied.

1.

Park designs utilizing cell-type groupings or mobile home lots or other modified designs may be approved under the provisions of this section;

2.

Modifications of the above standards of design may be approved under the provisions of this section for mobile home parks, travel trailer parks, recreational trailer parks, temporary trailer parks and tent camps. However, in no case shall such modifications be in conflict with minimum requirements of the Mobile Home Parks Act, California Health and Safety Code, Division 13, Part 2.1 and the applicable regulations adopted pursuant thereto by the State Department of Housing and Community Development.

(Ord. 250 (part), 1997; SBCC § 89.0115)

A.

Structural Requirements. The erection, construction, reconstruction, repair, relocation or alteration of all permanent buildings and structures located within a mobile home park shall conform to the requirements of the Building Code as adopted by Chapter 15.04.

B.

Plumbing Requirements. The construction, installation, arrangement, alteration, repair, use and operation of all plumbing, water and sewage systems within, on or pertaining to all permanent buildings and structures located within a mobile home park shall be designed and installed in accordance with the requirements of the Uniform Plumbing Code as adopted by Chapter 15.04 and as herein provided.

1.

Floor drains of a type approved by the building and safety department shall be installed in all concrete floors of rooms containing sanitary plumbing fixtures. Hose bibs shall be installed near each floor drain. Sanitary facilities within a mobile home park shall be for the exclusive use of tenants of the mobile home park.

C.

Electrical Requirements. The construction, installation, arrangement, alteration, repair, use and operation of all electrical wiring and electrical equipment within, on or pertaining to all permanent buildings and structures located within the mobile home park shall be designed and installed in accordance with the requirements of the National Electrical Code as adopted by Chapter 15.04.

D.

Certificate of Occupancy. Upon completion of any mobile home park and prior to the use thereof, the owner or operator of said park shall make an application to the building and safety department for a certificate of occupancy, the application to be in writing upon the form provided by the building and safety department, and shall be filed not less than ten days nor more than twenty (20) days before the mobile home park is ready for use. The building and safety department shall thereupon make a final inspection of the mobile home park referred to in the application and if found to be in conformity with the requirements of this chapter and other ordinances of the County of San Bernardino and the laws of the state of California, the office shall forward to the building and safety department a written certificate of occupancy.

E.

Public Address Systems. Public address systems or loudspeakers shall not be permitted if audible outside the boundaries of the mobile home park.

(Ord. 250 (part), 1997; Ord. 75 § 2 (part), 1990; SBCC § 89.0120)

(Ord. No. 2021-01, 3(Exh. A), 6-1-21)

A.

Filing of Approved Maps. A reproducible tracing of the map of the mobile home park as approved by the planning officer shall be filed with the building and safety department for construction permits. Blue line prints, in an amount determined to be necessary for processing of the application, shall be submitted together with the tracing.

B.

Checking of Approved Map. The approved map shall be checked for compliance with all the conditions set forth by the planning officer. When it is determined that all conditions have been met, construction permits may be issued by the building and safety department.

(Ord. 250 (part), 1997; Ord. 75 § 2 (part), 1990; SBCC § 89.0130)

If all improvements required as a condition of approval of mobile home park are not satisfactorily completed at the time an operating permit is requested, the owner or owners of the mobile home park shall, prior to the issuance of the permit, enter as contractor into an agreement with the city guaranteeing that the required work will be accomplished.

(Ord. 250 (part), 1997; SBCC § 89.0135)