(A) Manufactured home parks.
(1) No manufactured home park shall be established except as a conditional use. The conditional use permit for such shall not be issued except after a public hearing. Only manufactured home parks licensed by the State Department of Health under M.S. § 327.15 and Minn. Rules parts 4630.0200 to 4630.2210, as they may be amended from time to time, shall be permitted in the city and granted a conditional use permit.
(2) No application for a conditional use permit for a manufactured home park shall be complete and no public hearing shall be held until the following information is submitted:
(a) Location and size of the manufactured home park;
(b) Location and size of each trailer site, dead storage area, recreation area, roadways, parking sites, and all setback dimensions;
(c) Detailed landscaping plans and specifications, indicating that the park shall be screened and buffered in accordance with § 151.105;
(d) Plans for sanitary sewer disposal, surface drainage, water systems, electrical services, and fuel systems; and
(e) Such other information as is necessary to ensure conformance with the requirements of this chapter.
(B) Overall minimum park requirements.
(1) Each manufactured home park shall be of sufficient size to contain at least 12 fully developed manufactured home sites and required accessory areas.
(2) Each manufactured home park shall have access to a private street which is deemed adequate to service the anticipated traffic generated by the park.
(3) Each manufactured home park shall provide public water and sewer facilities in accordance with standards determined by the city.
(4) Each manufactured home park shall provide a common central TV antenna.
(5) All fuel systems shall be maintained from a common central source metered to each individual coach site.
(6) At least 10% of the land area within each manufactured park shall be designed for development for recreational purposes. Such spaces shall be developed and maintained by the owner of the manufactured home park.
(7) Each manufactured home park shall have one or more central community buildings.
(8) No manufactured home site, off-street parking space, building, or street shall be located within 30 feet of the boundary of any manufactured home park. This boundary area shall be landscaped and screening may be required by the city.
(9) Identification signs for the park shall be limited to one sign not exceeding six square feet for each outside street frontage. Such signs may be illuminated but not flashing. The maximum height of such signs shall be 20 feet.
(10) Each manufactured home park shall have an office which is distinctly marked and illuminated. Provisions shall be made for an adult caretaker to be on duty at the park at all times. The manufactured home park office shall maintain a registry showing the names and addresses of each resident and the make, type, and license of each manufactured home and automobile belonging to occupants of the coach sites.
(11) Provisions shall be made in the plans for every manufactured home park to provide for a street fronting on each manufactured home site. Such streets may be either public or private as agreed upon between the manufactured home park developer and the city.
(12) Each manufactured home park shall have a storm shelter of adequate size for all its residents on site.
(13) All manufactured home park streets shall be constructed of either asphalt or concrete, shall meet the standards specified by the City Engineer, and shall have concrete curb and gutter.
(14) The minimum street width shall be 36 feet (measured between the backs of curbs).
(15) Streets interior to a manufactured home park shall be privately owned.
(16) No cul-de-sac street may be more than 250 feet in length.
(17) Accessory structures shall be limited to one, ten foot by 12 foot utility building, the siding and color of which matches the manufactured home.
(18) Portions of each site not occupied by buildings or parking spaces shall be landscaped.
(19) Parking shall be located within the park’s boundaries.
(C) Zoning permit requirements. Initial permits for the construction of manufactured home parks will not be issued for the development of less than 12 manufactured home sites. No permit will be issued until the developer provides site and construction plans indicating the following:
(1) Location and size of the manufactured home park;
(2) Location and size of each manufactured home site, dead storage areas, recreation area, roadways parking sites, and all setback dimensions;
(3) Detailed landscaping plans and specifications with appropriate buffering;
(4) Plans for sanitary sewer disposal, surface drainage, water systems electrical services, fuel systems, and trash disposal;
(5) Location and specifications for all streets abutting the manufactured home park and proposed driveways from such streets into the park;
(6) All road construction plans and specifications;
(7) Complete construction plans for all proposed structures; and
(8) Such other information as is necessary to ensure conformance with the requirements of this chapter.
(D) Dimensional regulations.
(1) Minimum lot dimensions (feet):
Type of Manufactured Home | Depth | Width |
Single-wide manufactured home | 100 | 50 |
Double-wide manufactured home | 115 | 65 |
Depth shall be measured from edge of the road unless the lots are platted | ||
(2) Minimum building setbacks (feet):
Use | Front | Rear | Main Entry Side | Secondary Entry Side | Interior Side | Corner Side |
Manufactured Home | 25 | 10 | 25 | 10 | - | - |
Accessory Building | 50 | 0 | - | - | 5 | 20 |
(3) No manufactured house, parking space, or accessory building may be located within 30 feet of the exterior boundary of a manufactured home park.
(4) The developer shall provide five copies of the above required plans and shall submit a detailed description of construction plans indicating the time involved, cost estimates, stage developments, if any, and a detailed description of maintenance procedures and ground supervision and methods proposed for disposal of garbage and refuse.
(5) The city may require performance bonds in amounts adequate to insure that development proposed in the plan submitted is actually completed.
(6) All developers of manufactured home parks shall provide evidence that the plans therefor have been approved by the state’s Department of Health and that the developer will comply with all recommendations, suggestions, and regulations specified by that Department relative to manufactured home park regulations.
(7) All manufactured homes shall be anchored in accordance with Minn. Rules parts 1350.2500 to 1350.3200, Stabilizing System for Manufactured Home Installation, as they may be amended from time to time.
(8) Any newly installed manufactured home older than 15 years from time of the zoning permit will require a conditional use permit.
(9) All relocated manufactured homes older than 15 years from the time of permit request require a conditional use permit. Approval may be granted, provided the following criteria are met:
(a) Interlocked smoke detectors are required in each bedroom and in the corridor;
(b) The windows must be double glaze;
(c) One egress window is required from each bedroom;
(d) Gas piping installation must be re-tested, re-inspected, and approved by the city;
(e) The electrical service must be a minimum of 100 amp circuit breaker type with ground fault interruption; and
(f) The manufactured home complies with the Manufactured Home Building Code established by M.S. § 327.31, Subd. 3, as it may be amended from time to time, and has not been altered to not comply.
(Prior Code, § 151.085) (Ord. 149, passed 3-9-1998)