1143.02 MOBILE HOME COMMUNITIES.

   (a)   No mobile homes, trailers or similar portable residential structures shall be permitted to locate in the Municipality except as a mobile home community in an “R-3" District.

   (b)   A mobile home community shall conform to the following requirements:

      (1)   Contain a minimum of six acres.

      (2)   Provide an adequate supply of pure water and a system of collective sanitary sewers and sewage treatment and disposal facilities.

      (3)   Provide a clearly defined minimum area of 4,000 square feet including a minimum width of forty feet for each mobile home or trailer.

      (4)   Provide a minimum fifteen-foot clearance between individual mobile homes or trailers, and a fifty-foot setback from any property line bounding the mobile home community.

      (5)   All mobile home spaces shall abut upon a driveway of not less than twenty feet in width, which shall have unobstructed access to a private or public street.

      (6)   A safe, usable recreation area shall be conveniently located in each mobile home community and shall not be less than ten percent of the gross area of the tract.

      (7)   Conform to all City and State Health Department requirements.

      (8)   Mobile home parks shall be effectively screened on all sides by means of walls, fences or plantings. Walls or fences shall be six feet to eight feet in height without advertising thereon. In lieu of such wall or fence, a strip of land not less than fifteen feet in width, and planted and maintained with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than six feet in height, may be substituted.

         (Ord. 40-63. Passed 12-12-63.)