Lewiston City Zoning Code
MOBILE HOME
PARKS
§ 152.225 DEFINITIONS.
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MOBILE HOME, TRAILER COACH or TRAILER OR AUTOMOBILE TRAILER. Any vehicles or structures so designed and constructed in such manner as will permit occupancy thereof as a dwelling, or sleeping quarters for one or more persons, or the conduct of any business or profession, occupation or trade (or use as a selling or advertising device), and so designed that it is or may be mounted on wheels and used as a conveyance on highways or city streets, propelled or drawn by its own or other motive power, or any such structure designed and constructed in such manner that it can be transported in one or more segments by some other means than its own power, but excepting a device used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
MOBILE HOME PARK. Any park, trailer park, trailer court, trailer camp, court, camp, site, lot, parcel or tract of land designed, maintained or intended for the purpose of supplying a location or accommodations for any mobile home and upon which any mobile home is parked and shall include all buildings used or intended for use as part of the equipment thereof whether or not a charge is made for the use of the MOBILE HOME PARK and its facilities. MOBILE HOME PARK shall not include automobile or mobile home sales lot on which unoccupied mobile homes are parked for purposes of inspection and sale and where the person using or owning such lot is a duly authorized or franchised dealer in mobile homes.
UNIT. A section or plot of ground within the boundaries of any mobile home park including off-street parking space for one automobile and other uses considered pertinent to the establishment and use of a mobile home residence.
(Prior Code, § 914.01)
§ 152.226 LOCATION OUTSIDE MOBILE HOME PARK.
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to park any mobile home on any street, alley or highway or other public place or on any tract, lot, piece or parcel of land and whether the same is occupied or unoccupied within the city limits, except as provided by this chapter.
(B) Emergency or temporary stopping or parking is permitted on any street, alley, highway or lot for not longer than 48 hours subject to any other and further prohibitions, regulations or limitations imposed by the traffic and parking regulations or ordinances for that street, alley or highway.
(C) No persons shall park or occupy any mobile home on the premises of any occupied dwelling or upon any lot which is not a part of the premises of any occupied dwelling either of which is situated outside of an approved mobile home park except, the parking of only one mobile home, unoccupied, in a private garage building, or upon the rear of a yard or any occupied dwelling constructed of conventional wood frame or masonry material is permitted providing no living quarters shall be maintained or any business practiced in, or advertising displayed upon said mobile home while such mobile home is so parked or stored.
(D) Temporary special permits may be issued by the City Council for the temporary use of a mobile home as a dwelling, office or for temporary advertising or display purposes when said mobile home is located outside of an authorized mobile home park. Such temporary special permit shall be limited to periods of not more than 90 days and must be removed at the end of said period. Not more than two such temporary permits shall be issued consecutively to one person except upon a showing by such person that a residential building permit has been applied for, approved and issued on such other special circumstances as the Council may, in its discretion, deem to be good cause.
(Prior Code, § 914.02) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 152.227 APPLICATION FOR PERMIT.
(A) Applications for a permit to establish, construct and maintain a mobile home park under the provisions of this chapter shall be made to the City Council.
(B) The application for a permit shall be accompanied by five copies of the mobile home park plan showing the following either existing or proposed:
(1) The extent of area proposed for home park purposes;
(2) Existing city roads, streets and alleyways adjacent to or abutting upon the proposed park;
(3) The location of sites or units for mobile homes;
(4) The location and number of sanitary conveniences proposed to be placed within the park;
(5) Roads, driveways, alleyways and off-street automobile parking facilities within the boundaries of the proposed park;
(6) Proposed street surfacing and lighting; and
(7) Such other information as may be requested by the Council.
(C) Each application for such permit shall be accompanied by a certificate of ownership prepared by the owner or operator of such trailer coach park or all of the property within 300 feet of any boundary line of the proposed home park site.
(D) Each applicant shall be required to pay a fee in an amount set by Council resolution from time to time at such time such application is filed with the City Administrator. This money shall be used by the city to defray the expense of processing such application and of conducting and providing notice for a public hearing as herein provided.
(E) No permit for any mobile home park shall be issued by the City Council until after a public hearing has been held on the matter by the Council. Such hearing shall be advertised in the official newspaper of the city for at least ten days prior to the public hearing. The Council shall mail a notice of said hearing to each of the property owners shown on the certificate at their last known address so that they might appear and be heard.
(Prior Code, § 914.03)
§ 152.228 BUILDING PERMIT FOR MOBILE HOME PARK.
(A) In addition to an application for a permit to establish a mobile home park as provided in § 152.227, an application for a zoning permit for the construction of the park shall conform to the requirements of this chapter generally.
(B) Every application for a building permit to construct a mobile home park or to expand an existing mobile home park shall be accompanied by plans approved by the State Department of Health showing that the applicant is complying with all recommendations, suggestions, regulations and laws under the jurisdiction of that department.
(C) The City Council may refer any applications for mobile home park building permit to the Planning and Zoning Commission of the city for recommendation.
(D) The building permit shall be issued by the City Administrator or his or her deputy upon approval by the City Council.
(Prior Code, § 914.04)
§ 152.229 LOT DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS.
(A) Lot size: for homes less than 61 feet in length, the minimum lot size is 4,400 square feet; for homes greater than 61 feet in length, the minimum lot size is 5,100 square feet.
(B) Lot width: for homes less than 61 feet in length the minimum lot width is 47 feet; for homes more than 61 feet in length, the minimum lot width is 50 feet.
(C) Minimum front yard setbacks: 15 feet for dwellings and 20 feet for accessory structures.
(D) Minimum rear yard setback, dwelling: ten feet.
(E) Location of garages: garages shall be separated from structures on the same lot as is required by the Building Code, and shall be set back from property lines six feet if facing a home window on the adjacent lot or three feet in all other cases.
(F) Accessory buildings and structures other than garages: these uses are subject to the same setbacks as garages, 5% of the lot area.
(G) Total lot coverage, all buildings and structures: 45%.
(H) The recreation space required by the Council for any subdivision shall be provided in a single consolidated area with a minimum dimension of 150 square feet for every five home lots, with an additional 30 square feet for each additional lot in the contiguous (no required street crossings) area.
(I) All dwellings shall be equipped with an anchoring and support system as defined and approved by the Minnesota Department of Administration Building Code Division rules for mobile home support and tie-down systems. All homes shall bear a seal or label as defined in M.S. § 327.31, Subd. 8 and 13, as they may be amended from time to time. Dwellings placed on foundations shall have a minimum width of 20 feet, measured between non-intersecting exterior walls.
(J) Each manufactured home lot shall have a mobile home stand with a surface graded for proper drainage and covered by a paved slab or compacted earth, gravel or crushed stone. Skirting shall be installed around all sides of each manufactured home within a manufactured home subdivision. SKIRTING means a rigid waterproof material designed and installed so as to provide a solid or visual barrier between the underside of a manufactured home and its stand.
(K) Lot sizes smaller than those required in division (A) above may be permitted if requested during the initial land subdivision review upon finding that:
(1) The developer has demonstrated that the natural or dimensional characteristics of the tract are such that strict adherence to the minimum lot size requirement would prevent or interfere with the design of a plan more appropriate to the land; and
(2) The amount of area by which any and all spaces are reduced shall be consolidated into common open or recreational areas according to a comprehensive plan for the manufactured home subdivision. The combined area of manufactured home lots and the common open or recreational areas shall maintain an average lot area density equal to or greater than the minimum required lot size.
(L) A storm shelter meeting the requirements adopted by the state pursuant to M.S. § 327.20, as it may be amended from time to time, shall be provided. In addition, the storm shelter must be constructed to accommodate the following number of people: the shelter space (no. of people) = 0.75 x no. of dwelling units x 2.5 people per dwelling unit.
(M) A concrete slab or surface patio shall be constructed in either one or more segments on the ground beside each mobile home parking space; this slab or patio or slabs or patios shall be not less than 160 square feet and shall be a minimum of two inches thick.
(N) At least one shade tree (minimum diameter of two inches at time of planting) shall be placed and maintained on each unit.
(O) Except for the area used for the mobile home, patio, sidewalk and any off-street parking space, the entire unit shall be sodded or seeded and maintained with grass.
(P) Each unit shall abut on and have access to a street within the boundaries of the trailer coach park, which shall be at least 37 feet wide between gutters. The construction of said street shall conform to the standards established by the city and specified as a five-ton street. The streets are to be built and maintained by the owner of the mobile home park. All streets and ways established by such mobile home park are hereby declared public to the extent that they shall be under the supervision and control of the police enforcement powers of the city with respect to traffic laws and such other laws as shall be applicable to public ways and places.
(Q) A curb shall be constructed on each side of the street according to the specifications required by the City Council.
(R) A cement sidewalk, not less than 30 inches wide shall be constructed adjacent to the concrete curb and on the unit side thereof. This sidewalk shall be connected to the unit patio by a cement walk of not less than 24 inches in width.
(S) There shall be an unused area of not less than three feet in depth along each public street or way and this area shall be sodded or planted in grass.
(T) The parking of more than one mobile home on any single unit shall not be permitted.
(U) No mobile home may be inhabited by a greater number of occupants than that for which it was designed.
(V) Water facilities, sewage disposal and street lighting shall be installed and maintained by the owner of the mobile home park site and shall be constructed in accordance with the laws of the state, the recommendations of the State Health Department and the ordinances and requirements of the city.
(W) Fire hydrants shall be placed throughout the area in such a way as to satisfy the district Fire Marshal that adequate fire protection is achieved.
(X) All boats, boat trailers, hauling trailers and all other equipment not stored within the mobile homes or the utility enclosure that may have been provided shall be stored in a separate place provided by the park owner and not upon the plots occupied by mobile homes nor upon the streets within the mobile home park.
(Prior Code, § 914.05)
§ 152.230 RESTRICTION.
(A) Where natural gas or other central fuel supply system is not provided by the mobile home park owner for use by each mobile home within the park, individual fuel containers shall be firmly fixed to metal stands.
(B) The owner of the trailer coach park shall cause the rear inside boundary lines thereof to be planted with shrubbery or trees so as to effectively delineate the boundaries of the trailer coach park and to create a buffer zone between such park and any adjacent or abutting residential homes except that such landscaping shall not be required where interference with the free and unobstructed ingress and egress to said trailer home park or where such landscaping is in conflict with existing city ordinances.
(C) The owner or occupant of any mobile home parked upon or within an approved mobile home park shall cause such mobile home to be skirted around the bottom thereof with a non-combustible or fire resistant material so as to enclose the space between the floor or bottom of such mobile home and the ground.
(D) No construction of any foyer, vestibule or other accessory structure constructed, placed or erected outside of the mobile home and placed upon the unit shall be permitted except upon the approval of the City Council being first obtained.
(E) The removal of running gear or wheels from any mobile home placed within any approved mobile home park shall be prohibited.
(Prior Code, § 914.06) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 152.231 ADMINISTRATION.
(A) This chapter shall be administered and enforced by the Mayor who may institute in the name of the city any appropriate actions or proceedings against a violator as provided by law.
(B) Any person who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects or refuses to comply with, or who resists the enforcement of any of the provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Each day a violation continues to exist will constitute a separate offense.
(C) The provisions of this chapter are hereby declared to be severable and any section, division, clause or provision which may be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid shall not render any other section, division, clause or provision or the whole of this chapter invalid or unconstitutional.
(D) The City Council shall have the power to revoke any mobile home park permit which as heretofore or hereafter shall be issued to any person failing to conform to the requirements of this chapter or to any other municipal or state law applicable.
(Prior Code, § 914.07) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 152.232 RIGHT TO MODIFY.
The City Council shall have the right to vary or modify the strict application of any of the regulations or provisions contained in this chapter, in cases in which there is practical difficulties or unnecessary hardships in the way of strict application.
(Prior Code, § 914.08)