No mobile home shall be located or altered, or land or water used, nor shall any certificate of occupancy be issued therefor by the Building Official unless and until the required mobile home park development plan is officially approved by resolution of the Council. Existing mobile home parks shall comply in the area of change if lot sizes are changed or any new area developed. The proposed mobile home park development plan shall conform to the following:
1. The plan shall show the following:
A. Topography with topographic lines at a minimum of two-foot intervals.
B. Park boundaries and dimensions as obtained by a boundary survey by a licensed land surveyor in the State of Iowa.
C. Location and area of all uses, including streets adjacent to and within the park; walks, patios, mobile home stands; play areas, parks, and common open spaces, parking areas; utilities including street lighting and fire hydrants; physical features such as retaining walls, fences, trees, and natural features; other information that may be required by the Planning and Zoning Commission, Engineering, Traffic, Fire, Health, Water, or Building Departments; easements and dedications.
2. The mobile home park development plan shall be prepared by a landscape architect, architect, engineer, land surveyor, or other experienced designer and have the seal of a duly authorized engineer or land surveyor in the State of Iowa, certifying boundaries, boundary measurements, and such other matters as are required to be so approved by the Subdivision Regulations.
3. The proposed mobile home park development plan shall be in accordance with the site design plan approved by the Council with the R-MH zoning granted for the proposed mobile home park.
4. Every mobile home park shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with the approved mobile home park development plan.
5. All mobile homes shall be located and maintained in full conformity with the approved mobile home park development plan.
6. In recommending upon and approving mobile home parks, the Council shall consider the location, size, height, spacing, and extent of use of any mobile home and its appurtenances, access and circulation for vehicles and pedestrians, streets, parking areas, yards and open spaces and the relationship to adjacent property. The Planning and Zoning Commission shall not recommend nor the Council adopt such mobile home park development plan unless it finds that such plan conforms to all applicable provisions of this chapter.
7. If said mobile home park development plan contains no dedication to the City for streets or utilities or should it be contemplated that the facilities of the City shall not be used for maintenance of streets, sidewalks, water and sewer lines, garbage collection or other related functions, then the owners of the real estate contained in the mobile home park development shall be required to record with the mobile home park development plan a covenant that said owners will maintain said streets, sidewalks, water and sewer lines in compliance with the minimum standards as established by the City, and that should such owners or their assignees, heirs or those holding or owning said land through said owners fail to maintain said standards in any of these respects, the City may, after 10 days’ notice to such owners, effect all the necessary repairs or improvements as required to maintain said minimum standards and the cost of all these and other necessary repairs or improvements shall become a lien against said real estate and enforced and recorded as mechanic’s liens are enforced and recorded against such real estate.
8. Amending Procedure.
A. If it is found necessary to make material or substantial alterations or modifications to an approved mobile home park development plan, such alterations or modifications shall be subject to the approval of the Council.
B. A request for approval of alterations or modifications of a previously approved mobile home park development plan shall be accompanied by the same kind and number of exhibits as are required for a new request for approval insofar as such exhibits are applicable to the requested alterations or modifications. When the Council by official resolution approves the revised mobile home park development plan, said revised plan will supplant the original approved mobile home park development plan.
C. If a reasonable length of time has elapsed without significant progress having been made in completion of the mobile home park or if there has in the interim been a significant environmental change within or surrounding the area covered by the plan, the Council may require that a revised plan be submitted by the developer.