The Mobile Home Park District (RMH) is intended to apply only to large, vacant, unplatted areas and will serve as zones of transition between more intensive land uses such as office or commercial and other residential districts or permanent nonresidential uses. The Mobile Home Park District is further provided to allow an alternate form of housing that provides the flexibility of moving living units from place to place.

No mobile home shall be placed on a site in a Mobile Home Park District (RMH) unless a site plan therefor has been approved per the provisions of Section 5.22.

(Ord. No. 1793, § 3, 8-19-24)

(1)

One-family mobile home.

(2)

Double-wide, one-family mobile home.

(3)

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses.

(4)

Automobile parking spaces to be provided, as required in sections 5.30 and 5.31, which may be located in carports or garages adjacent to, or in close proximity to, the units they are intended to serve.

It is the purpose and intent of this article to establish site design and construction standards for mobile home parks insuring that the arrangement of mobile homes provides adequate light, air, convenience of access, safety, essential utilities and recreational facilities and other open spaces.

(1)

Minimum site size. The minimum site size for development purposes of a Mobile Home Park District is twenty-five (25) acres (10.125 hectares).

(2)

Density. The maximum density shall be limited by the requirement of a minimum of seven thousand five hundred (7,500) square feet (697.5 square meters) of land area per mobile home, exclusive of the area of internal minor and collector streets.

(3)

Minimum floor area. The minimum floor area for any mobile home to be utilized for residential purposes shall be not less than one thousand (1,000) square feet (93 square meters).

(4)

Circulation. The street system shall provide convenient circulation by means of minor streets and properly located collector streets. Closed ends of dead-end streets shall be provided with an adequate vehicular turning circle at least ninety (90) feet (27.45 meters) in diameter. A minor street shall be not less than twenty-seven (27) feet (8.235 meters) wide, measured between curb faces, and a collector street shall be not less than thirty-three (33) feet (10.065 meters), measured between curb faces.

(5)

Setbacks. All mobile homes and any accessory buildings shall maintain a 50-foot (15.25 meters) setback to any boundary line of the development to adequately protect the residential use of the development.

(6)

Spacing between mobile homes. Mobile home sites shall be so arranged so as to provide a minimum distance of not less than twenty-five (25) feet (7.625 meters) between any unit or attached appendage to the main unit. The minimum distance between the roadway which provides circulation to the site and the unit shall be not less than twenty-five (25) feet (7.625 meters).

(7)

Mobile home stands. Each mobile home must be situated on a series of concrete piers arranged in accordance with the following diagram. The concrete piers shall be not less than sixteen (16) inches (40.64 centimeters) in diameter, not less than forty-two (42) inches (106.68 centimeters) deep, and shall have a maximum footing load of fifteen (15) pounds (6.804 kilograms) per square inch (6.451 square centimeters).

Each mobile home shall be located on the stands and supported with masonry blocks or jacks, shall have the wheels removed, shall be connected to utilities, and be provided with skirting from the bottom of the walls of the mobile home to the ground which shall consist of face brick or aluminum siding and shall provide an uninterrupted screening device around the mobile home.

(8)

Anchorage and tie downs. Every space for mobile homes shall be provided with devices for anchoring the unit to prevent overturning or uplift. Anchorage may be by eyelets imbedded in the concrete with adequate anchor plates or hooks, or other suitable means. The anchorage shall be adequate to withstand wind forces and uplift based upon the size and weight of the units and as detailed in the BOCA Code.

(9)

Open space. Each mobile home shall be provided with an outdoor living and service area. Such area should be improved and landscaped as necessary to assure reasonable privacy and comfort. The minimum area should not be less than three hundred (300) square feet (27.9 square meters) with a least dimension of fifteen (15) feet (4.575 meters).

In addition to the above, there shall be provided at least three hundred (300) square feet (27.9 square meters) of open space and recreation space for each mobile home and shall be developed in clusters located uniformly throughout the site. At least one (1) such area in each mobile home park shall be of such size and shape that a minimum 100-foot square (9.3 meters square) may be laid out within it and be substantially flat, without trees, bushes or other obstructions, and maintained as lawn and is suitable for active forms of recreation. Streets, driveways and parking areas are not to be included in calculating the size of the recreation area.

(10)

Utilities. All utilities are to be located underground. In addition, an underground master television antenna system must be provided for each mobile home park for the use of each unit; exterior antennas shall not be permitted on individual mobile homes.

(11)

Sidewalks. Sidewalks, at least five (5) feet (1.525 meters) wide, shall be provided adjacent to all drives and streets that provide vehicular circulation through the mobile home park. Sidewalks shall be located on both sides of the drives and streets.

(12)

Refuse collection facilities. Refuse containers, having a capacity of one (1) cubic yard (0.765 cubic meters) for each four (4) mobile homes, shall be provided in a location where vehicular and pedestrian access is convenient, must be located on Portland cement concrete stands, and shall be surrounded, except on the driveway side, by a brick faced masonry wall at least six (6) feet (one and eighty-three hundredths meters) high.

(13)

Boat and camper storage. The storage of boats, snowmobiles, all terrain vehicles, trailers and non-motorized campers shall be permitted only in an area designated for such storage and shall not be permitted on any mobile home space.

(14)

Community building. Each mobile home park development shall contain a community building of sufficient size to accommodate laundry facilities, indoor recreational facilities, and room for community gatherings to service the residents of the mobile home park.

(15)

Project improvements. Each mobile home park development shall comply with the requirements and regulations of chapter 48, subdivision and project improvements, of the City Code.

(16)

Fire safety requirements. Each mobile home, regardless of age, shall be equipped with approved smoke detection and alarm systems in addition to an approved portable fire extinguisher suitable for handling incipient fires to the home.

(17)

Storage sheds. Storage sheds may be permitted as accessory buildings. No outdoor storage shall be permitted by any mobile home park or committed by any occupant, including the storage of anything underneath any mobile home.

(18)

Walls. A six-foot (one and eighty-three hundredths meters) high brick faced, solid masonry wall shall be required wherever parking areas are adjacent to single-family residentially zoned property as determined by the city council at the time of site plan review.

(19)

Signs. Permitted signs are limited to directional, speed limit, street address and street name signs.

(Ord. No. 1338, 6-8-92)

Fees charged for the site planning review of requests under the provisions of this section shall be in the amount of three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00) plus two dollars ($2.00) per mobile home. This fee is necessary and reasonably related to the expense incurred in processing such requests and shall be paid at the time of presenting the site plan to the planning department.

(Ord. of 4-1-91)