Selah City Zoning Code
10.56 Mobile
Home Parks
10.56.010 Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "License" means any person licensed to operate and maintain a mobile home park under the provisions of this chapter.
(2) "Mobile home park" means any plot or ground upon which two or more mobile homes, occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes, are located, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodation.
(3) "Mobile home space" means a plot of ground within a mobile home park designed for the accommodation of one mobile home.
(4) "Multiple dwelling" means any structure designed and intended to accommodate more than one family and includes but is not limited to duplex buildings, group houses, and apartment buildings.
(5) "Natural or artificial barrier" means any river, pond, canal, railroad, levee, embankment, fence or hedge.
(6) "Park" means mobile home park.
(7) "Permittee" means any person to whom a temporary permit is issued to maintain or operate a mobile home park under the provisions of this chapter.
(8) "Person" means any natural individual, firm, trust, partnership, association or corporation.
(9) "Health officer" means the State Director of Health, or the city, county, or district health officer, as defined in Sections 70.04.030, 70.06.020, and 70.04.020 of the Revised Code of Washington and/or Chapter 183, Sessions of Laws, 1945, or his authorized representative. (Ord. 1637, § 4, 2004.)
10.56.020 Mobile home parks.
Mobile home parks shall only be located within planned development zones created by Selah Municipal Code, Chapter 10.26 and the guidelines established by Resolution No. 435 or subsequent resolution modifying or adding to proposed guidelines. (Ord. 1637, § 5, 2004.)
10.56.030 Common ownership.
The applicant for a mobile home park shall apply pursuant to Selah Municipal Code, Chapter 10.40 for a rezone to planned development. On approval of the rezone of a planned development zone, the applicant shall maintain a common ownership of the entire mobile home park. An approved mobile home park shall not be eligible for approval for subdivision or short platting and maintain its status as a mobile home park. (Ord. 1637, § 6, 2004.)
10.56.040 Responsibility of applicant.
The requirements of Resolution No. 435 concerning guidelines for mobile home parks or any subsequent resolution on the same subject shall be the personal responsibility of the applicant, his successors and assigns. Violations of any of the guidelines shall be a violation of this chapter. (Ord. 1637, § 7, 2004.)
10.56.050 Location of mobile home parks.
Mobile home parks may be created pursuant to Selah Municipal Code, Chapter 10.26 and the guidelines established by Resolution No. 435 or subsequent resolution modifying or adding to the proposed guidelines. (Ord. 1637, § 8, 2004.)
10.56.060 Performance bond.
The applicants shall have twelve months from the approval by the city council to complete the minimum requirements of the guidelines and shall file with the city clerk-treasurer a performance bond in the minimum sum of ten thousand dollars per acre for the performance of the minimum requirements and delegating to the discretion of the city administrator the authority to increase performance bond requirements, if in his opinion it is justified. (Ord. 1879, § 1, 2012; Ord. 1637, § 9, 2004.)
10.56.100 Service buildings.
(a) Service buildings housing sanitation and laundry facilities, or any of such facilities, shall be permanent structures complying with all applicable ordinances and statutes regulating buildings, electrical installations and plumbing and sanitation systems.
(b) The service buildings shall be well lighted at all times of the day and night, shall be well ventilated with screened openings, shall be constructed of such moisture-proof material including painted woodwork, as shall permit repeated cleaning and washing, and shall be maintained at a temperature of at least sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit during the period from October 1st to May 1st. The floors of the service buildings shall be of water-impervious material.
(c) Service buildings housing sanitation facilities shall be located not closer than ten feet nor farther than two hundred feet from any mobile home space upon which a dependent mobile home is harbored.
(d) All service buildings and the grounds of the park shall be maintained in a clean, sightly condition and kept free of any condition that will menace the health of any occupant or the public or constitute a nuisance. (Ord. 1637, § 10, 2004.)
10.56.160 Supervision.
The licensee or permittee, or a duly authorized attendant or caretaker, shall be in charge at all times to keep the mobile home park, its facilities and equipment in a clean, orderly and sanitary condition. The attendant or caretaker shall be answerable, with the licensee or permittee, for the violation of any provision of this chapter to which the licensee or permittee is subject. (Ord. 1637, § 11, 2004.)
10.56.200 Penalty.
Any person violating this chapter or the guidelines adopted by reference shall be fined no more than five hundred dollars or six months in jail or a combination of both penalties.* (Ord. 1637, § 12, 2004.)
*Note: For regulations on length of stay of mobile homes outside mobile home parks, see Selah Municipal Code Chapter 3.10.
10.56.210 Review of decision.
An aggrieved party shall make application to the superior court of Yakima County within twenty-one days of the issue date of the decision to be reviewed. The cost of transcription of all records ordered certified by the court for such review shall be borne by the appellant, who shall pay such sum in advance as requested by the city. (Ord. 1637, § 13, 2004.)