A. Purpose: The Manufactured Mobile Home Park (MMHP) designation is intended to provide for and encourage, the organization and development of mobile homes and other pre-manufactured dwellings in a single-family residential neighborhood setting, and to:
1. Bring about manufactured home developments which are an asset to the community and to prevent the development of those which would be a detriment to the community.
2. To promote manufactured home developments with the character of residential neighborhoods.
3. To protect the health, safety, and welfare of manufactured home residents and the surrounding community.
4. To harmonize this type of residential development with other existing and proposed land uses.
5. To assure adequate service by essential public facilities and services such as roads, police, water and sewers, drainage structures, and that the establishment of any manufactured home development shall not equal excessive public expense for the facilities and services.
B. Location of manufactured/mobile home park: To adequately insure the purpose of the manufactured/mobile home park designation, applicants will be required to be in an R-3 Multi-Family Residential District and to acquire a special exception is set forth in Chapter 12, Board of Zoning Appeals.
C. Limitation on permitted uses: Within all nonconforming parks, the permitted uses of such parks shall be limited to the following:
1. Manufactured homes, mobile homes, and modular homes.
2. Accessory buildings or structures, under park management and supervision, used only as office space, storage, laundry facilities, recreation facilities, garage storage, or other necessary service for park resident use only. An accessory building or structure shall not exceed 25 feet in height, or two stories; and shall meet the requirements of the City Building Code.
3. Each residence may have one accessory building on a lot. The accessory building shall not exceed a height of 16 feet, nor two stories in height, nor be closer than 5 feet from any side or rear property line.
4. Signs as regulated by Chapter 11, Signs.
D. General regulations:
1. Minimum development area: The total land area of a manufactured home development shall be not less than ten acres.
2. Application of regulations: A manufactured home unit shall not be permitted to occupy a site, either initially when brought into a manufactured home development or upon addition to or replacement of an existing manufactured home, which violates the yard or area requirements established herein. It is recognized that due to the pre-manufactured nature of such homes, lots exceeding the minimum area requirements of this ordinance may be necessary to accommodate some models within the required yard setbacks. Recognizing this fact, it is assumed that suitable provision will be made by the developers of the manufactured home development in their advance planning to provide for such homes in their design. Based upon this guideline, the fact that the size of a particular home, or class of home, would create a violation of any of the yard requirements of this ordinance when applied to a specific lot, shall not, in itself, be considered an adequate basis for the granting of a variance from such requirements. Further, it is the express intent of this ordinance to encourage and promote manufactured home developments similar in nature to and recognizable as, single-family residential neighborhoods. The mere desire of an individual to rezone a single lot, or a series of lots not clearly in conformance with the intent, shall not be considered adequate basis for a variance from the minimum development size requirements previously stated in this chapter.
3. Recorded plat required: No permit for the erection or location of a manufactured home within a manufactured/mobile home park shall be issued until a subdivision plat for the land encompassed by the manufactured home park has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the subdivision regulations. It is the intention of this requirement to provide for the eventual sale of the lots within the manufactured home development to the home owners who shall reside upon those lots. The recording of a site plan or other similar instrument shall not be considered as meeting this requirement.
4. Minimum accommodations: Recognizing that a variety of manufactured buildings exist not specifically designed for residential purposes, each manufactured home placed, erected or located within a manufactured home development shall contain, at a minimum, a flush toilet, sleeping accommodations, a tub or shower bath, kitchen facilities, and plumbing and electrical connections designed for attachment to appropriate external systems.
5. Permanent foundation/perimeter enclosure required: All manufactured homes located within an approved manufactured home development shall be placed upon a permanent foundation and provided with a perimeter enclosure as defined by § 5.08 E.4. of this chapter. For the purposes of this ordinance, placement of a manufactured home upon uniform jacks or blocks, upon a concrete pad, skirted with sheet metal, aluminum, wood, or other temporary material, and secured by tiedowns, shall not be considered a permanent foundation and perimeter enclosure meeting this requirement.
E. Area regulations and performance standards:
1. Park area regulations and performance standards:
(a) The minimum area for a manufactured/mobile home park is ten acres.
(b) Buffer zone: A 40 feet wide buffer zone along the perimeter of the manufactured/mobile home park shall contain plantings so as to provide an opaque barrier, or screen, between the park and adjacent property and along adjacent roadways. No plantings or other visual barriers shall encroach beyond the home park property line. No home or accessory structure shall encroach upon the buffer zone.
(c) Manufactured homes shall be located on lots containing an area of at least 4,500 square feet, or more.
(d) For uses other than manufactured homes, the lot area shall be adequate to provide the yard area required to meet the setback requirements of this district and the off-street parking requirements contained in Chapter 10, but in no case shall be less than 4,500 square feet.
(e) Not less than 10%, exclusive of community building facilities, of the gross area of the park, and not less than 10% of any expansion area, must be improved for recreational activity for the residents of the park.
(f) Entrance exit: The park shall be provided with primary and secondary access points with suitable signage placed in a landscaped setting.
2. Individual lot area regulations and performance standards:
(a) Minimum lot depth shall be 100 feet.
(b) Minimum lot width at the minimum building setback line shall be 45 feet. Where a lot fronts on a cul-de-sac, a 35-foot lot width at the street right-of-way is required.
(c) Front yard setback: Not less than 25 feet.
(d) Side yards setback: Not less than eight feet on each side of the dwelling.
(e) Rear yard setback: Not less than ten feet.
(f) Height requirements: The height of structures within the park shall not exceed 25 feet or two stories. Accessory structures shall not exceed 16 feet.
(g) Off-street parking: Off-street parking for two vehicles shall be provided for each home. In no case shall that portion of the paved area designated for the off-street parking encroach upon the street right-of-way.
F. Development standards:
1. Design and construction of improvements: All improvements, including but not limited to roadways, sidewalks, storm drainage facilities, water distribution facilities and sanitary sewer facilities shall be designed and constructed in conformance with the adopted standards and specifications of the city for public improvements whether intended as private improvements maintained by the owner(s) or for eventual dedication to the city.
2. Access: A lot within a manufactured home development shall have frontage on, and access to, a public or private street. Where double-frontage lots occur, access shall be limited to the minor street.
3. Sidewalks: Sidewalks not less than four feet in width shall be required on both sides of all interior streets. In those instances where the manufactured home development borders one side of an arterial or collector street, sidewalks conforming to this requirement shall only be required upon that side of the street.
4. Underground utilities: All electric, telephone, and other utilities extended within the home development to each lot shall be constructed underground. All water and sanitary sewage service connections shall not exceed ten feet in length above ground directly beneath the manufactured home, and shall be suitably protected against freezing.
5. Street trees required:
A deciduous tree of a minimum of two inches in caliper as measured one foot above the ground level shall be planted on each lot within the manufactured/mobile home park.
Some trees, such as ailanthus, silver maple, poplar, boxelder, catalpa or willow have roots which penetrate through or under the surface of any public place in the city, therefore they are hereby declared to be an undesirable species of tree for street planting.
6. Landscape maintenance: The landscaping materials depicted upon the approved plat shall be considered a binding element of the project. The developer, his or her successor, or subsequent owners of the overall development shall be responsible for its continued maintenance. Plant material which exhibits evidence of insect pests, disease, and/or damage shall be removed and replaced within the next planting season. This maintenance responsibility shall rest with the developer and subsequent owners for the duration of the manufactured/mobile home park.
7. Street lights: Street lights are required to be put in at the developers expense, as per Director of Community Development and/or Board of Public Works and Safety standards.
(1980 Code, Ch. 156, § 5.10) (Ord. 1995-7, passed 6-5-1995)