A. Parks shall be of three (3) types:
1. Mobile home parks;
2. Travel trailer parks; and
3. Mixed mobile home and travel trailer parks.
No dependent travel trailer shall be located in a mobile home park and used for occupancy. In a mixed park, separate areas shall be reserved for mobile homes and for travel trailers; no mobile home shall be permitted in the travel trailer sector, and no travel trailer shall be permitted in the mobile home sector.
B. All mobile home parks shall be located on a well drained site, properly graded to ensure rapid drainage and freedom from stagnant pools of water; drainage shall not endanger any water supply.
C. The minimum area of any park shall be three (3) acres. However, parks in existence on the effective date of this chapter, January 1, 1970, may continue to operate with less than three (3) acres, but if the park is to be expanded it must at that time have a minimum area of three (3) acres.
D. Intensity of development shall be limited to no more than ten (10) mobile homes per gross acre for a mobile home park and no more than fifteen (15) travel trailers per gross acre for a travel trailer park. Area used for sewerage treatment facilities shall not be included in density computations. Mobile home spaces shall be at least thirty feet (30') wide where pads are closest to driveways. Travel trailer spaces shall be at least twenty five feet (25') wide where travel trailers are located closest to the driveway.
E. Every mobile home space and travel trailer space shall be clearly defined. Mobile homes and travel trailers shall be parked in such spaces that at the nearest point they shall be thirty five feet (35') from the centerline of the service road, ten feet (10') from the rear lot line, and at least twenty feet (20') from any other mobile home or travel trailer.
F. It is unlawful to locate a mobile home or travel trailer less than twenty five feet (25') from any public street or highway right of way or so that any part of such mobile home or travel trailer will obstruct any roadway or walkway of such park.
G. It is unlawful to permit a mobile home to occupy a travel trailer space, a travel trailer to occupy a mobile home space, and for any mobile home or travel trailer to be located in a park unless in a designated mobile home space or travel trailer space.
H. All mobile home spaces shall abut upon a sealed surface driveway of not less than twenty feet (20') in width if on street parking is prohibited, and twenty six feet (26') in width if on street parking is permitted on one side of the street only. Driveways must have unobstructed access to a public street or highway. (Prior code § 4-96)
I. In mobile home parks or travel trailer parks existing at the effective date of this chapter, January 1, 1970, parking on or adjacent to the street within the park is permissible so long as it does not obstruct free movements of traffic. Whether or not a safety hazard exists is a question to be determined by the planning commission. If upon final appeal to the city council, the city council determines that a safety hazard does in fact exist, the mobile home park or travel trailer park concerned will be required to comply with subsection J of this section. (Prior code § 4-96; amd. 2015 Code)
J. In new mobile home parks, at least two (2) clearly defined parking spaces will be provided for each mobile home space either on or adjacent to the mobile home space. In new travel trailer parks, at least one parking space shall be provided for each space either on or adjacent to the space.
K. Outside drying spaces or other clothes drying facilities shall be provided in every mobile home park or travel trailer park.
L. All driveways and walkways within a park shall be at least asphalt-oil-rock sealed surface.
M. In the city limits area, new mobile home parks should abut, and have their major means of ingress and egress on at least a secondary thoroughfare. Travel trailer parks and mixed parks in the city limits area should abut and have their major means of ingress and egress on at least a primary thoroughfare.
N. All mobile home parks shall provide a suitable screening of landscaping, and also opaque fencing shall be installed where abutting existing single-family residential areas. (Prior code § 4-96)