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Pleasant Valley City Zoning Code

SECTION 400

165 Requirements for Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Developments.

[Ord. No. 2762 §2, 3-19-2007]
A. 
The following provisions shall apply to all mobile homes and mobile home developments located within the City of Pleasant Valley.
1. 
Mobile home space requirement.
a. 
All mobile homes including structural additions thereto shall be located at least twenty (20) feet from any other mobile home, permanent building, interior roadways, or common parking lot for more than two (2) vehicles. When parking is provided on each individual mobile home space, the minimum distance from roadway or street curb to mobile home shall not be less than twenty-five (25) feet. No mobile home shall be placed closer than thirty (30) feet to any of the development property lines and the ten (10) feet nearest to the property line shall be permanently maintained as a sodded and/or landscaped area.
b. 
Mobile home parks shall be enclosed with an approved fence or planted hedge, not less than seven (7) feet in height, with no openings to adjoining property other than the required entrances and exits to streets or public spaces.
c. 
Minimum width of any mobile home space shall not be less than forty (40) feet.
2. 
Common open space. The minimum open area required for common use of the residents in the development shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the gross area of the development. Common open space shall be calculated as any open unoccupied area remaining after the dwelling spaces, buildings, roadways or streets, parking areas, general storage areas, and the ten (10) foot permanent perimeter area have been deducted. Said open space shall be sodded and/or landscaped or otherwise designed and made available for recreational use.
3. 
Accessory convenience establishments. Buildings or structure enclosing management offices, recreational facilities, laundry and cleaning facilities may be permitted, but not required, in the development, subject to the following: It shall be not occupy more than ten percent (10%) of the developments gross area and be subordinate to the development's residential character and be restricted to serve the needs of the residents with no visible evidence of any commercial activity.
4. 
Parking regulations. Two (2) parking spaces shall be provided for each mobile home space. This parking must be provided on the individual mobile home space or in common parking areas that are located off the main roadway or street used for movement of traffic through the development. The intention of this parking requirement is to preserve the roadways or street within the development for carrying of traffic and not as a space for parking or storing of vehicles.
5. 
Requirements and standards for mobile homes developments. The mobile home development shall be planned and constructed in accordance with the following minimum standards:
a. 
All utilities shall be constructed underground and out of sight except above ground connections, meters and other similar items necessary to hook up the mobile home utilities.
b. 
Concrete sidewalks shall be required along streets or roadways which have mobile home space fronting on them. The sidewalks shall be a minimum of four (4) feet wide and four (4) inches thick.
c. 
All roadways, streets and common parking areas shall be designed and constructed with concrete vertical face barrier type curbs and concrete gutters.
d. 
All parking areas and roadways shall be constructed and paved with a hard surface, bituminous or concrete material.
e. 
All interior private roadways shall be a minimum of at least twenty-eight (28) feet wide from back of curb to back of curb. In no case shall parking of vehicles be allowed within or on the roadway or street width devoted and designed for movement of traffic.
f. 
All mobile home space shall be provided with concrete, reinforced runner or pad, forty-two (42) inches wide spaced sixty (60) inches apart and of sufficient length to allow the mobile home to be positioned on the pad, blocked and leveled properly.
g. 
All mobile home developments shall provide for the skirting of all mobile homes within their developments. The skirting shall be done so that it is compatible with the mobile home units materials and it shall be of a finished nature. Composition building board and raw wood shall not be used as skirting.
h. 
All mobile home spaces shall be provided with a minimum ten (10) by fifteen (15) foot patio pad composed of concrete, brick, block or other hard surface material and a hard surface walkway shall be constructed from the patio pad to the sidewalk.
i. 
The mobile home development shall be provided with general outdoor lighting of sidewalks, general parking and storage areas, and lighting of the development entrance and exit. This level of lighting shall provide at night a minimum average illumination of three-tenths (0.3) foot-candles.
j. 
The mobile home development shall provide general storage areas, in addition to automobile parking requirements, for accessory vehicles such as trucks and boats. The minimum area required for general storage shall be equal to one (1) parking space for each four (4) mobile home spaces. No accessory storage areas required by this Subsection shall be in addition to those required in Subsection (5)(k) hereof.
k. 
Storage facilities for tenants shall be provided on the mobile home space or in compounds conveniently placed near mobile home spaces. Said storage facility shall not be located any closer than ten (10) feet from any mobile home. Storage facilities shall be constructed of suitable weather-resistant materials appropriate for the use and maintenance contemplated. Tenant storage facilities shall be discharged under mobile home space requirements. A building permit shall be obtained from the City Clerk by the mobile home developer before any storage facility is constructed.
l. 
The development shall provide general refuse storage area either on each individual space or in a common storage area serving no more than fifteen (15) mobile home spaces. The storage area base shall be a concrete four (4) inch slab enclosed by walls or screens and shall have a means or method of raising any individual refuse containers off the ground at least eight (8) inches.
m. 
All yard areas and other open space not otherwise paved or occupied by structures shall be sodded and/or landscaped and shall be so maintained.
n. 
The mobile home development shall be served by the public water supply. The water distribution system shall be a looped system without the dead end main, adequate in size to supply water to each and every mobile home space.
o. 
All individual mobile home units shall be provided with tie-downs in accordance with the requirements set out by the State of Missouri.
p. 
The mobile home development shall discharge all sewered wastes to a public sewer system, except that if a public sewer system is not available to serve the development, the owner shall provide a private system of sewers and sewage treatment plant approved by the Clay County Health Department and Missouri Clean Water Commission. A house service connection shall be provided for each parking space.