7.17.01 Title.

This section shall be known as the mobile home park land use ordinance of the City of New Port Richey, Florida, and shall be designated as the MHP Zoning Ordinance.

7.17.02 Definitions.

Definitions as used in this section are as follows:

Licensee shall mean any person licensed to operate and maintain a mobile home park under the provisions of section 13-9 of this Code of Ordinance.

Mobile home means any vehicle or similar portable structure having been constructed with wheels (whether or not such wheels have been removed) and having no foundation other than wheels, jacks or skirtings, and so designed or constructed as to permit occupancy for dwelling or sleeping purposes. These do not include recreational vehicles as defined herein. Mobile homes are considered a single dwelling unit for the purposes of calculating density.

Dependent mobile home means any mobile home or travel type equipment without inside toilets and bath.

Mobile home park shall mean any plot of ground upon which two (2) or more mobile homes occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes are located, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodation.

Mobile home space shall mean a plot of ground within a mobile home park designed for the accommodation of one (1) mobile home.

Park shall mean a mobile home park.

Permanent legal residence means the one permanent home where the resident exercises his or her political rights and is liable to taxation and to where, whenever the resident is absent, he or she intends to return.

Permittee shall mean any person to whom a temporary permit is issued to maintain or operate a mobile home park under the provisions of this section.

Person shall mean any natural individual, firm, trust, partnership, association or corporation.

Recreational vehicle means a vehicle, including a park trailer, which is: [See F.S. § 320.01.)

(1)

Built on a single chassis;

(2)

Four hundred (400) square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection;

(3)

Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light-duty truck; and

(4)

Designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for recreation, camping, travel, or seasonal use.

(Ord. No. 2016-2083, § I, 5-3-2016)

7.17.03 Plans and specifications of all buildings, improvements and facilities constructed or to be constructed within mobile home park.

1.

Such further information as may be requested by the city manager to enable him to determine if the proposed park will comply with this section. The application and all accompanying plans and specifications shall be filed in triplicate. The city manager shall investigate the applicant and inspect the application and the proposed plans and specifications. If the applicant demonstrates financial responsibility, and the proposed mobile home park will, when constructed or altered in accordance with such plans and specifications be in compliance with all provisions of this section, and all other applicable ordinances and statutes, the city manager, according to the plans and specifications, shall issue the license.

7.17.04 Location.

Mobile home parks shall be located only in a district designated for their use and approved by the city council as a MHP Zoning District.

7.17.05 Mobile home park plan.

Each mobile home park within an MHP district classification shall conform to the following requirements:

1.

Minimum site area of ten (10) acres.

2.

Minimum lot area of four thousand (4,000) square feet with 40-foot lot width.

3.

Maximum possible gross density 8.8 dwelling units per acre.

4.

Mobile homes located in mobile home parks developed prior to 2000 shall be separated from each other and other structures by at least ten (10) feet. Mobile homes located in mobile home parks developed after 2000 shall be separated from each other and other structures by at least fifteen (15) feet.

5.

(a)

A setback of fifteen (15) feet in width from all property lines of parcels of different use except for public streets shall be provided and maintained in each mobile home park. Such setback shall not be considered to be part of an abutting mobile home space; nor shall said setback be used as part of the recreation area.

(b)

Front setbacks from existing or planned center lines of rights-of-way or public thoroughfares shall be required if the setbacks in subsection 5(a) above are less than the following:

1.

Local streets: Twenty-five (25) feet from property line.

2.

Collector streets and all others: Thirty-five (35) feet from property line.

6.

No more than sixty-five (65) percent of the land area of each mobile home lot shall be devoted to the mobile home coach, carport, cabana, or other similar improvements.

7.

Permissible uses shall not be construed to include display or sale of mobile homes or motor vehicles or storage of unoccupied mobile homes except such mobile homes that may be vacant when the same are set up and erected on a regular site. Recreational vehicles may not be used for permanent legal residence within mobile home parks.

8.

The maximum height of a structure shall not exceed 25 feet.

9.

The maximum number of mobile homes permitted on each lot is one.

(Ord. No. 1514, § I, 1-4-2000; Ord. No. 2016-2083, § II, 5-3-2016)

7.17.06 Park streets and roads.

Roadways or streets within a mobile home park may be private, but the following requirements shall apply.

1.

Internal collector streets shall be thirty (30) feet in width, with a minimum of twenty (20) feet of paved surface.

2.

Internal minor street shall be twenty-five (25) feet in width, with a minimum of twenty (20) feet of paved surface.

7.17.07 Other regulations.

The mobile home park shall be subject to the sign, off-street parking and building height regulations appropriate to the specific district in which the mobile home park is rezoned.

7.17.08 Existing parks and subdivisions.

Mobile home parks shall be located only in a district designated for their use and approved by the city council as a MHP Zoning District. Those mobile home parks or subdivisions approved or in existence at the time of adoption of this section shall be zoned in accordance with the above criteria as practically as possible, provided, however, that such parks or subdivisions may be completed and operated in accordance with plans for development as previously approved, or can continue to be operated in such manner as they were as of the date of adoption of this section and provided further, that such parks and subdivisions may be modified and changed in such a way as not to conflict with building or zoning requirements as adopted in this section.

(Ord. No. 1268, § 13, 11-19-91)

7.17.09 Other uses.

Single- or one-family dwelling units, other than mobile homes, shall be permitted provided that they meet the requirements set forth for this use in the R-3 Residential District, and further provided the lot or lots to be developed for such use are not part of a recorded mobile home subdivision or park.

Recreational vehicles may not be used for permanent legal residence within mobile home parks.

(Ord. No. 1311, § 1, 4-6-93: Ord. No. 2016-2083, § III, 5-3-2016)