The RMH residential district is established as a district in which the principal use of land is for single-family mobile home dwellings. For the RMH residential district the specific intent of this section is:

A.

To encourage the placement of, and the continued use of the land for single-family mobile home dwellings located within mobile home parks or mobile home subdivisions;

B.

To prohibit commercial and industrial uses of the land;

C.

To encourage suitable and proper development of mobile home parks or mobile home subdivisions.

(Prior code § 17.52.010)

For the purposes of this section:

"Mobile home park" also means "mobile home court."

"Mobile home subdivision" means a surveyed, approved, and filled subdivision where the lots are primarily for sale rather than individual spaces for rent.

(Prior code § 17.52.020)

The following use is permitted:

Single-family mobile home dwellings when located within mobile home parks or on individual lots within a mobile home subdivision.

(Prior code § 17.52.030)

The maximum allowable density for all mobile home parks shall be nine mobile homes per net acre.

(Prior code § 17.52.040)

A.

For single-wide mobile home dwelling units, minimum site dimensions shall be forty feet wide and one hundred feet deep with a minimum site area of four thousand square feet.

B.

For double-wide mobile home dwelling units, minimum site dimension shall be fifty feet wide and one hundred feet deep with a minimum of five thousand square feet.

(Prior code § 17.52.050)

A.

The ground area occupied by a mobile home, attached storm shed, patio, storage building and off-street parking spaces shall not exceed fifty percent of the total area of the site. In computing the ground coverage, four hundred square feet shall be added to actual area of the mobile home and the accessory buildings for the two required off-street parking spaces. This provision limits to one storm shed, not over ten feet by twelve feet or one hundred twenty square feet in area per site and the utility building shall be placed on a proper foundation.

B.

No mobile home, storm shed or other legal attachments to the mobile home shall be located less than seven feet six inches from the side site line. Detached tool sheds shall be located not less than five feet from the side or rear site lines. The ends of the mobile homes shall be at least ten feet apart when opposing rear walls are staggered, otherwise fifteen feet apart. No portion of a mobile home, or attachment thereto, or tool shed, or any other structure shall be located less than fifteen feet away from any site or property line adjacent to a public right-of-way.

(Prior code § 17.52.060)

A.

The minimum total area of a mobile home park shall be at least ninety thousand square feet, including alleys and/or roadways.

B.

The minimum street roadway shall conform to the requirements found in the city-county subdivision regulations.

C.

All entrances, exits, lanes and driveways between rows of mobile homes shall be lighted to provide an intensity of five footcandles. Mobile home parks shall be provided with, at minimum, two walkways at least three and one-half feet wide between the mobile home sites and each service building; roadways and sidewalks within the parks shall be hard-surfaced, either concrete or bituminized; and shall conform to the requirements found in the city-county subdivision regulations.

D.

All provisions of water supply, laundry, sewage and fire protection to be provided in any mobile home park shall have been approved by the appropriate city department.

E.

Off-street parking areas shall be provided in all mobile home parks at a ratio of at least two car spaces per mobile home site. At least two car spaces shall be provided on each mobile home site. The area per one car space shall be at least ten feet wide and twenty feet deep, plus ingress and egress.

F.

There shall be provided, unless previously provided by a park dedication as required by the subdivision regulations, within each mobile home park an adequate site or sites for recreation for the exclusive uses of the park occupants. Such recreation site or sites shall have a minimum area in aggregate of four thousand square feet plus one hundred square feet for each mobile home site in the park. The recreation sites shall be of appropriate design and provided with adequate equipment; and may be used to meet the one-ninth minimum area requirement of the subdivision regulations.

G.

All mobile home parks must provide a completely and permanently landscaped setback area of at least fifteen feet in width around those portions of the park perimeter which border public right-of-way. Such areas may contain trees, shrubbery, grass, benches, fences, landscaped water resources and the like. Setback areas not bordering public rights-of-way may be used to fulfill the recreation area requirements of the subsection F.

H.

All mobile home parks shall have near their main entrance, a marquee or sign on which there shall be an up-to-date list of the addresses and a diagram of the park layout.

I.

All mobile home parks shall provide one additional parking space for every five sites as a main parking area to be used by visitors or in the storage of recreational vehicles.

(Prior code § 17.52.070)

Existing mobile home parks shall not be enlarged or extensively altered unless such alteration complies with the provisions of this chapter.

(Prior code § 17.52.080)

A.

All lots in a mobile home subdivision shall conform to the requirements set forth in Section 17.16.020.

B.

All lots shall be served by the city's water and sewer systems.

C.

All lots shall be provided with direct access to a public street unless a home owner's association has been set up to maintain a private street.

D.

All mobile home subdivisions shall be designed in accordance with the criteria established in Title 16 of this code.

(Prior code § 17.52.090)

A.

All mobile homes, whether located in a mobile home park or a mobile home subdivision, shall be set up and skirted in one of the following ways:

1.

Individual concrete pads with cinder blocks used for supports, coupled with coordinate skirting;

2.

Permanent concrete foundation;

3.

A dug-out style area with cinder blocks for support, designed to lower the unit to ground level:

a.

The owner of a mobile home park shall be required to establish one of these methods for exclusive use throughout the park,

b.

Individual lot owners in a mobile home subdivision will be required to indicate which of the three methods they will use prior to receiving a permit to move a mobile home onto the lot.

B.

Each mobile home, whether located in a mobile home park or a mobile home subdivision, shall be anchored to the ground for purposes of withstanding wind pressures specified for such mobile home by the city building inspection department prior to occupancy of the unit.

(Prior code § 17.52.100)