(A) No mobile home shall be placed on a lot in the city other than a mobile home site in an approved mobile home park.
(B) No mobile home park shall be licensed, constructed or operated, except in a “MH-2” Zone District.
(C) Mobile home parks shall be subject to the following requirements.
(1) The following regulations relative to the minimum lot size and minimum yard dimensions shall apply to the entire tract of land on which the mobile home park is situated.
(a) A mobile home park shall be located on a tract of land not less than ten acres in area, with minimum width and depth dimensions of 200 feet.
(b) Any building structure or mobile home shall be located at least 25 feet from any front lot line or any side lot line adjacent to a street and 15 feet from any rear lot line and at least five feet from any other lot line.
(2) No building or structure within the mobile home park will exceed the height of 35 feet.
(3) (a) There shall be provided, within the boundaries of the mobile home park site, not less than one and one-half off-street parking spaces for each mobile home space.
(b) The mobile home park site shall have direct access to a public street or highway by an access way of at least 30 feet in width.
(c) Each mobile home space shall abut on a driveway or access way, at least 24 feet wide, with unobstructed access to a public street. Each mobile home space shall be located within 100 feet of such driveway or access way. Appropriate turn around space, sufficient in size to accommodate emergency vehicles, shall be provided at the terminus of any dead-end access ways in the mobile home park.
(4) (a) The minimum individual area, width and depth requirements for mobile home spaces shall be as follows:
Area | Width | Depth | |
Individual mobile home space | 4,000 sq. ft. | 40 ft. | 80 ft. |
(b) Spaces shall be arranged and mobile homes parked in such manner that there is an open space of at least 15 feet by 30 feet at the rear of and as a part of each mobile home space; except that: where a common recreation area is provided that contains at least 100 square feet for each mobile home space, with a minimum total area of 5,000 square feet and the minimum width and depth dimension of 100 feet, the individual mobile home space may have the following minimum area, width and depth dimensions:
Area | Width | Depth | |
Individual mobile home space | 3,500 sq. ft. | 40 ft. | 70 ft. |
(5) Only single-family residential uses and uses accessory thereto shall be permitted in a mobile home park.
(6) The location for and development of any mobile home park shall have a compatible relationship to the established street system and shall be such as to oppose no greater traffic burden on streets than the streets can reasonably bear.
(7) All access drives and parking areas shall be paved or otherwise surfaced with an all-weather, dust-proof material and graded so as to drain off all surface water to storm water inlets.
(8) A ten-foot landscaped buffer shall be provided for the side, rear and front yards of the park. In lieu of the landscaped buffer, a five-foot high wall or opaque wooden fence.
(9) No portion of any mobile home park may be located outside the city’s limits.
(D) (1) Mobile Home Park Districts shall be created by the City Council upon application and only after public hearing before the Zoning Board of Appeals which shall then issue a written advisory report to the City Council recommending approval or denial of the application for a Mobile Home Park District. The Zoning Board of Appeals shall apply the standards set forth in this subchapter in rendering its said advisory report and shall include in its advisory report findings and the reasons therefor.
(2) A Mobile Home Park District shall not be created unless it substantially complies with the specific requirements herein set forth. In determining whether a specific tract of land shall be designated as a Mobile Home Park District, the City Council shall take into consideration, in addition to the specific requirements herein set forth, the following factors:
(a) The existing uses and zoning of nearby property;
(b) The extent to which property values are diminished by the particular zoning restrictions;
(c) The extent to which the destruction of property values by the subject property promotes the health, safety, morals or general welfare of the public;
(d) The relative gain to the public as compared to the hardship imposed on the individual property owner;
(e) The suitability of the subject property for the zoned purposes;
(f) The length of time the property has been vacant as zoned, considered in the context of land development in the area and vicinity of the subject property;
(g) Compatibility with the city’s overall zoning plan; and
(h) Community need for the proposed mobile home park.
(9) In designating a tract of land as a Mobile Home Park District, the City Council may impose conditions for the reasonable protection of the immediate neighborhood or the city from any adverse affects of the mobile home park.
(E) The temporary parking of an individual mobile home is permitted subject to the following regulations.
(1) Emergency or temporary stopping of a mobile home shall be allowed on any street, alley or highway for not longer than two hours, subject to any further prohibitions, regulations or limitations imposed by the traffic regulations or laws for such street, alley or highway.
(2) An individual mobile home may be parked outside the public right-of-way, as not otherwise prohibited, for a period of 72 hours; provided that, no such mobile home is parked nearer than 25 feet to any right-of-way line abutting a public street.
(F) A mobile home may be parked for inspection and sale on any lawful automobile or trailer or mobile home sales lot.
(G) Nowhere in the city shall any mobile home be permitted to be permanently fixed to the ground in a manner that would prevent its removal; provided, however, that, this section shall not apply to mobile homes so situated or permanently fixed as of the date of the passage of this subchapter.
(1960 Code, § 60-6-39) (Ord. 3355, passed 4-19-1976)