(A) Manufactured home developments; special provisions.
(1) Common open space. At least 10% of the total site of a manufactured home park shall be reserved for common, usable open space, for the exclusive use of residents, and to be maintained by the proprietor or operator of the manufactured home park. Such open space and its improvements shall be completed before any manufactured home site is offered for occupancy.
(2) Application. An application for a manufactured home park shall be accompanied by the same data, map, and information required for other plats of subdivisions within the city.
(3) Additional data. Any additional data required by the State Board of Health for licensing of manufactured home parks shall also be submitted to the city’s Planning Commission prior to or concurrently with its submittal to the State Board of Health.
(4) Landscaping. Landscaping is required as follows.
(a) Each manufactured home park shall, in addition to maintaining a 20-foot landscaped strip around the perimeter of the property, also provide a 20-foot greenbelt separating the manufactured home park from arterials listed in the city’s comprehensive plan and from any adjoining zoning district.
(b) Each manufactured home site shall be provided with a tree no less than four inches in diameter at a six-foot height, and all unpaved areas shall be suitably sodded. The trees and sod will be provided by the developer.
(5) Sales or storage prohibited. Sales or storage of manufactured homes shall be prohibited in a manufactured home park.
(6) Width of paved streets. Paved private streets serving the manufactured home park shall be of sufficient width to provide for two lanes of traffic and for parking on each side of the street.
(7) Anchoring. Each manufactured home site shall be provided with tiedown or other acceptable method of anchoring the manufactured home.
(8) Storm shelter designation. Each manufactured home park shall provide and designate one of its permanent buildings which is structurally suitable to serve as a storm shelter, which shall meet the requirements of M.S. Ch. 327, as it may be amended from time to time, and Minn. Rules Ch. 4625, and shall be inspected by the City Building Inspector.
(9) Skirting. Each manufactured home within a manufactured home park shall be properly and completely skirted.
(10) Shelters for refuse collection. Shelters for common refuse collection shall be provided by the developer. Distance from the refuse collection area for manufactured home park residents shall not exceed 150 feet.
(11) Separation between units. There shall be a minimum 20 feet of separation between each manufactured home within a manufactured home park.
(B) Differences in setback requirements. If the residential setback requirements for an underlying zoning district differ from that of the Shoreland or Floodplain Overlay District, the greater of the distances shall apply.
(C) Impervious surface coverage. Impervious coverage may be increased by an additional 10% in Residential Districts if a storm water retention plan created by a licensed engineer showing containment of the five-year, 24-hour storm event on the parcel is provided, approved by the city, and implemented on the subject property.
(D) Storm water management. All site plans submitted for permit applications which increase the overall impervious surface coverage on residential property shall include documentation that direct runoff of storm water to adjacent properties and wetlands will be eliminated through the use of berms, infiltration ponds, swales, rain barrels, rain gardens, filtration strips, or other permanent means,
(Prior Code, § 13.22) (Ord. 2016-07, passed 6-22-2016)