The Residential Mobile Home (RMH) Zone is to provide an exclusive district designation that is applied to land for use as mobile home parks, and to establish rules and regulations by which the City may regulate the standards of lots, yards, or park areas, landscaping, walls or enclosures, signs, access, and vehicle parking in relation to mobile home parks pursuant to the powers granted to the City under the Health and Safety Code of the State, and naming the Commission as the agent for executing the provisions of this article. This article shall apply to mobile home parks or any other livable unit of a permanent or semipermanent nature, as defined by Section 10.08.610 of Article 2 of this chapter, unless specifically exempted by Part 2 of Division 13 of the Health and Safety Code of the State or by the provisions of this article.

(Prior code § 10-2.1400)

In the RMH Zone the following specified regulations shall govern, unless otherwise provided in this chapter: Before any mobile home park is hereafter established, and before any buildings to be used for mobile home park purposes are erected, plot plans showing the size of all mobile home sites and the location of roadways and proposed buildings, together with landscaping and other architectural details, shall be presented to and approved by the Commission. The Commission may require such revisions of such plot plans as it may deem necessary to preserve the public health, peace, safety, and general welfare. To this end, the Commission shall require the following specific regulations in approving plot plans for mobile home parks:

(a)

Every mobile home park shall create a buffer zone on all property lines consisting of five-foot yards and screened by a six-foot high solid opaque fence of masonry, slatted chain link, or other materials approved by the Commission.

(b)

All park streets shall be a minimum of thirty (30) feet in width from curb to curb and paved to the engineering specifications of the City.

(c)

Adequate street lighting shall be furnished for the mobile home park.

(d)

Fire hydrants shall be subject to the approval of the City.

(e)

All utilities shall park underground, including the television antenna system. Appurtenances which can be effectively screened may be excepted from this requirement if the Commission finds that such exception will not violate the intent or character of the proposed RMH zoning. The developer and/or owner shall be responsible for complying with the underground requirements and shall make the necessary arrangements with the utility companies involved for the installation of such facilities.

(Prior code § 10-2.1401)

(a)

In the RMH Zone, only uses which are included in the following use groups shall be permitted without conditional approval:

Group 1 Minor public service uses;

Group 4 Temporary buildings and uses;

Group 29 Accessory uses, except home occupations, the renting of rooms, and sales of agricultural products;

Group 30 Educational, institutional, and recreational, neighborhood; and

Group 39 Mobile home parks.

(b)

In the RMH Zone, uses which are included in the following use groups shall be permitted only with conditional approval:

Group 2 Local public service and utility installations;

Group 32 Educational, cultural, institutional, and recreational uses with special site or location requirements; and

Group 48 Commercial amusement and entertainment establishments (requiring large sites or generating large traffic volumes).

(Prior code § 10-2.1402)

The minimum required building site area for any new mobile home park in the City shall be not less than three (3) acres.

(Prior code § 10-2.1403)

(a)

Each mobile home site within the RMH Zone shall have a minimum area of 2,400 square feet, a minimum width of thirty-five (35) feet, and a minimum depth of sixty (60) feet, and only one mobile home shall be permitted on each site.

(b)

All intersecting lot lines for individual mobile home sites shall be visibly marked by one-half-inch rebars, three (3) feet in length, driven to a depth of the finished grade level, or by other permanent markers as approved by the City Engineer.

(c)

Any other buildings allowable in a mobile home park shall be approved subject to the provisions section 10.08.1900 of this article.

(Prior code § 10-2.1404)

(a)

Every structure in the RMH Zone, including the required fencing, shall maintain the same front yard areas as the more restrictive of the adjoining lots thereto, and in no case shall the yard areas on the front or street side of any lot be less restrictive than those requirements set forth in section 10.08.150 of Article 2 of this chapter.

(b)

All interior yards for individual mobile home sites, including front, rear, and side, shall be a minimum of five (5) feet for all mobile homes or their appurtenances attached thereto, with the exception that trailer hitches may extend into such required yard area.

(Prior code § 10-2.1405)

No building in the RMH Zone shall exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height, nor consist of more than two (2) stories.

(Prior code § 10-2.1406)

No mobile home park shall exceed ten (10) mobile homes per acre.

(Prior code § 10-2.1407)

There shall be no floor area requirements in the RMH Zone.

(Prior code § 10-2.1408)

(a)

Each individual trailer site in the RMH Zone shall provide two (2) off-street parking spaces, one of which shall have contiguous access to a street. Such spaces shall not be a portion of the necessary driveways for the court area.

(b)

An off-street parking area shall be required within the mobile home park which shall provide one additional parking space for every four (4) trailers in the mobile home park to accommodate additional cars for court and visitor parking.

(Prior code § 10-2.1409)

(a)

An area within the mobile home park may be designated as a storage area for trailers and boats. Trailers occupying such storage areas shall be for storage or vacation use only, and in no instance shall such area be used to provide a site for the accommodation of a trailer used for living purposes while such trailer is within the mobile home park. When an area is designated for trailer storage, such area shall be paved and shall be in addition to that required for additional automobile parking, roadways, and trailer sites as set forth in this Article.

(b)

Recreation or open spaces shall be provided for each mobile home park of at least 1,000 square feet, plus 150 square feet for each individual trailer space over ten (10). Such open space may be used in more than one location, but no one location shall contain less than 1,000 square feet. Each recreational space shall be accessible to all of the individual trailer spaces in the park and shall not be used for any other purpose.

(Prior code § 10-2.1410)

All uses requiring a building permit shall obtain development review compliance, except as provided for in Article 30 of this chapter and the CEQA Guidelines adopted by the City, prior to being established in the RMH Zone.

(Prior code § 10-2.1411)