§ 156.038 RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK DISTRICT (RVP-1).
   (A)   Purpose. The intent of this district is to provide for recreational vehicle park development on small units or spaces together with such public and semi-public buildings and facilities and accessory structures or uses as may be necessary and are compatible with residential development of this nature. District shall be located to conform to the Comprehensive Plan, and zoned by conditional use permit only. The district is specifically designed to accommodate overnight, weekly, monthly (three month maximum), and camping spaces of current state licensed recreational vehicles. All RV parks should only be operated with a permit and fee as established in the city’s annual fee schedule. Permit shall expire one year from the date of issuance.
   (B)   Permitted uses.
      (1)   Uses permitted by right.
         (a)   Recreational vehicles: A vehicle designed for human habitation for recreational purposes and being used on public road or other vehicle transportation facility. Recreational vehicle shall include a motor home, travel trailers, camping trailers and tiny home trailers, but shall not include a mobile home or manufactured home;
         (b)   Manufactured homes (One only to be used for owner or manager as a residence. No older than three years at the time of placement);
         (c)   Store (sales of food, beverages, gasoline, camping and recreational related items).
      (2)   Accessory structures permitted.
         (a)   Restroom facility building shall include showers;
         (b)   Laundry wash room buildings;
         (c)   Storage buildings related to principal structure or business-related. (This does not include dry boat storage sheds or work shops.)
      (3)   Dimensional requirements.
         (a)   Minimum setback from park boundaries at public street - 20 feet.
         (b)   Minimum horizontal distance between recreational vehicles:
            1.   Side to side - ten feet.
            2.   End to end - 15 feet.
            3.   Side to end - 15 feet.
         (c)   Minimum recreation vehicle park size - five acres with ten sites per acre.
         (d)   A drainage analysis and plan of the recreation vehicle park shall be provided and approved by the City Engineer.
         (e)   Minimum front yard of the recreational vehicle park - 60 feet setback.
         (f)   Maximum advertising signage shall be one monument sign no more than eight feet in height and no larger than 100 square feet to be placed only in front yard.
         (g)   Minimum recreational vehicle lot within the park - 20 feet wide by 50 feet long.
         (h)   Zoning use table: recreational vehicle park shall be allowed as a conditional use and require a site plan to be considered and reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council. May be a conditional use in retail/commercial zone or an agricultural zone.
      (4)   Development requirements.
         (a)   A set of engineer plans as well as site plan and survey must be submitted for plan review and approval by the city Building Official, Fire Marshal and city engineers. Construction according to plans. All spaces or units shall be constructed as plans show at time of approval. Must follow Texas Accessibility Rules (ADA).
         (b)   A drainage analysis and plan of the recreational vehicle park shall be provided and approved by the city engineers.
         (c)   Paving of streets. All streets or driveways shall be paved, oiled, or graveled in such a manner as to clearly distinguish the road from play and space unit areas.
         (d)   Street lighting. All streets within the park shall be lighted at night with electric lights providing a minimum illumination of 0.2 footcandles.
         (e)   Fire hydrants. All phases will include at least one fire hydrant every 1,000 feet. Fire hydrants will be connected to, at least, a six-inch water main.
         (f)   Registration. All recreational vehicles must have up to date and current Requirement Registration License, or as required by the issuing state.
         (g)   Two entrance/exit hard surface roads shall be provided, each of which of at least 24 feet wide meeting the minimum requirements of the city’s fire prevention code for a fire lane.
         (h)   Materials; onsite construction. All structures other than manufactured home for manager’s residence shall be constructed of new materials and onsite construction.
         (i)   Underground electrical service, city water and waste water service is to be provided to each recreational vehicle lot with full hookup. RV dump station shall be required.
         (j)   Minimum screening fence of eight feet shall be placed in the side yard and rear yards of the recreational vehicle park.
         (k)   Minimum 20% of the recreational vehicle park excluding vehicle lot shall be landscaped and provided with common open-space amenities.
         (l)   One off-street parking space for every recreational vehicle lot within the recreational vehicle park in addition to the recreational vehicle lot (overflow parking).
         (m)   Garbage/trash disposal. Adequate facilities for the collection, storage and disposal of garbage/trash of the occupants of the RV park shall be provided.
         (n)   Unsightly structures. No unsightly travel trailer or motor home shall be allowed. Further, no converted school buses or other converted vehicle shall be allowed in the park.
(Ord. 100, passed 12-12-78; Am. Ord. 99-002, passed 3-9-99; Am. Ord. O-2013-013, passed 6-25-13; Am. Ord. O-2021-005, passed 1-26-21; Am. Ord. O-2023-005, passed 2-28-23) Penalty, see § 156.999