(a) It shall be unlawful for any reason to establish, maintain, operate or permit to be established, maintained or operated any mobile home community or park within the city limits, without first having secured a permit therefor as herein required, except those mobile home communities or parks and trailer parks that are already established. Each such presently established mobile home community and trailer park shall be considered a nonconforming use and will be permitted to remain as long as the use is continuous.
(b) The applicant for a permit for a mobile home community shall submit three copies of the plan showing location, size and topography of the site for review of the Zoning Commission or governing body. The plan must show the trailer or modular house space or lots, roadways, sidewalks, parking areas, electrical lines, utility lines, methods of defining each mobile home or trailer space or lot and the location of paved patios in such a way to demonstrate that the proposed mobile home community will meet the requirements set out herein.
(c) Regulations for park and camp layouts shall be as follows.
(1) Area. Mobile home parks shall contain a minimum area of 3,750 feet for each mobile home space.
(2) Setbacks. All mobile homes and house trailers shall be so located as to maintain a setback no less than 15 feet from any public street or highway right-of-way; as to maintain a setback no less than ten feet from the edge of a park, roadway or sidewalk; and as to maintain a setback no less than ten feet from any side or rear boundary line when such boundary is not common to any public street or highway right-of-way.
(3) Clearance. All mobile homes or house trailers shall be so located as to maintain a clearance of not less than 20 feet from another mobile home, house trailer or appurtenance thereto within the same mobile home park or trailer camp; and as to maintain a clearance of not less than 20 feet from any building or service building within the park or camp.
(4) Roadways and sidewalks. All mobile home or house trailer spaces shall abut upon a park or camp roadway. All roadways shall not be less than 24 feet. All roadways shall have an unobstructed access to a public street or highway, with all dead end roadways being provided an adequate vehicular turnaround with a diameter of not less than 80 feet. All park and camp roadways shall be surfaced with concrete, asphalt, asphaltic concrete, gravel or crushed rock.
(d) All persons operating parks existing on the effective date of this article shall obtain a park license, upon the expiration of his, her or their existing license, if any, with such new license being issued only after approval by the inspection officer and only after payment of the required fee. All persons developing new parks after the effective date of this article shall obtain a park permit before occupancy of such park, with such permit being issued only after approval of the required application by the inspection officer and after payment of the required fee. The park licenses for both existing and new parks shall be renewed annually, 12 months from the date of the previous license, after approval by the inspection officer and after payment of the required fee. No person shall operate a park without a current park license.
(e) (1) License and permit fees for mobile home parks, shall be as follows in division (e)(2) below.
(2) The annual license fee for a park shall be as follows:
(A) One mobile home space: $15;
(B) Two mobile home spaces: $30;
(C) Three to 15 mobile home spaces: $40; and
(D) Sixteen to 25 mobile home spaces: $50.
(f) A temporary permit may be issued for a mobile home or house trailer to be occupied other than within a park for a period not to exceed 30 days, upon the payment of a fee of $5. There shall not be more than two such permits issued for the placement of a mobile home or house trailer.
(1987 Code, § 4-1006)