Upon compliance with the provisions as set forth herein, a mobile home trailer park will be allowed within the R-4 District as defined in § 152.01 of this title.
(A) The applicant, upon making application for a zoning clearance permit, must submit a detailed site plan locating all mobile home stands, screening or fencing, and plans and specifications for the proposed park in a form suitable for making the determinations required herein.
(B) The proposed site shall be a minimum of 254 acres in size and shall contain no more than 15 mobile home stands per acre. The proposed site shall have a minimum frontage of 200 feet on a street designated as a major street or collector street in the city’s major street plan. All access or egress by automobile will be on such streets. The proposed site shall be a minimum of 200 feet in depth.
(C) It shall be the intention of the proposed plan for the mobile home park to accommodate primarily permanent occupants with no more than 10% of the mobile home stands devoted to purely transient purposes. These purely transient stands are to be located in one area of the park so they will in no way interfere with the permanent residents.
(D) The proposed site shall have a front yard of not less than 40 feet from the corner or line of any mobile home stand to the street boundary of the park. The site shall have side and rear yards of ten feet from any solid fencing, screen planting or wall of six feet in height.
(E) The proposed site shall be screened or buffered on all sides with a solid wall fence seven feet in height or a screen planting which will attain at least seven feet in height.
(F) The proposed site shall provide one off-street parking space for each mobile home stand, plus one additional off-street parking space for each four mobile home stands.
(G) The proposed site shall provide a connection for each mobile home stand to all public utilities considered necessary for the health, safety, and general welfare of the public.
(H) Individual mobile, modular, or manufactured homes or offices may be permitted in zones other than R-4 Zone by being issued a conditional use permit according to § 156.172 of this chapter, provided:
(1) If for residential purposes, only if related to another use which is the major activity on the parcel;
(2) If for nonresidential purposes, only for use directly related to the major activity on the parcel; and
(3) Such mobile home shall be enclosed with an approved fence or planted hedge, not less than seven feet in height with no openings to adjoining property other than the required entrances and exists to streets or public places.
(I) Municipal or other State Health Department approved water system capable of supplying fire hydrants installed in accordance with specifications of Oklahoma Inspection Bureau and the American Insurance Association. The proposed site shall have a public sewer system or other disposal system which has been approved for a requested number of units by the State Health Department. All mobile homes must be connected to a sanitary sewer system within 72 hours of arrival in the park. An individual electric service outlet shall be provided for each unit.
(J) The wheels or other transporting devices of any mobile home located in a mobile home park may be removed. Any mobile home located in a mobile home park for more than 72 hours shall be securely anchored to the ground so as to attain the same resistance to wind as a fixed residence of comparable size and park operators shall require tenants to skirt units so as to enclose the underneath area.
(K) Each space shall be provided with a concrete slab of sufficient size to support wheels and front parking jack of the mobile home unit parked on the space.
(L) The following shall be minimum dimensions for:
(1) One-way without parking: 12 feet;
(2) One-way with parking on one side: 21 feet;
(3) Two-way without parking: 22 feet; or
(4) Two-way with parking on one side: 30 feet.
(M) Mobile home parks shall be enclosed with an approved fence or planted hedge not less than seven feet in height with no openings to adjoining property other than the required entrances and exits to streets or public places, unless a finding is made by the Planning Commission that this is unnecessary due to the nature of the site.
(Prior Code, § 157.050) (Ord. 1040, passed 4-12-1983; Ord. 1722, passed 3-11-2014)