(A) Types; restrictions.
(1) Parks shall be of three types:
(a) Mobile home parks;
(b) Travel trailer parks; and
(c) Mixed mobile home and travel trailer parks.
(2) No dependent travel trailer shall be located in a mobile home park and used for occupancy. In a mixed park, separate areas shall be reserved for mobile homes and for travel trailers; no mobile home shall be permitted in the travel trailer sector, and no travel trailer shall be permitted in the mobile home sector.
(B) Site drainage. All mobile home parks shall be located on a well drained site, properly graded to ensure rapid drainage and freedom from stagnant pools of water; drainage shall not endanger any water supply.
(C) Park area. The minimum area of any park shall be two acres. However, parks in existence on the effective date of this chapter may continue to operate with less than two acres, but if the park is to be expanded it must at that time have a minimum area of two acres.
(D) Intensity of development.
(1) Intensity of development shall be limited to no more than ten mobile homes per gross acre for a mobile home park and no more than 15 travel trailers per gross acre for a travel trailer park.
(2) Area used for sewerage treatment facilities shall not be included in density computations.
(3) Mobile home spaces shall be at least 30 feet wide where pads are closest to driveways. Travel trailer spaces shall be at least 25 feet wide where travel trailers are located closest to the driveway.
(E) Spaces. Every mobile home space and travel trailer space shall be clearly defined. Mobile homes and travel trailers shall be parked in such spaces that at the nearest point they shall be 25 feet from the service road, ten feet from the rear lot line, and at least 20 feet from any other mobile home or travel trailer.
(F) Obstructing roadway or walkway. It is unlawful to locate a mobile home or travel trailer less than 25 feet from any public street or highway right-of-way or so that any part of such mobile home or travel trailer will obstruct any roadway or walkway of such park.
(G) Parking in properly designated space. It is unlawful to permit a mobile home to occupy a travel trailer space, a travel trailer to occupy a mobile home space, and for any mobile home or travel trailer to be located in a park unless in a designated mobile home space or travel trailer space.
(H) Driveways. All mobile home spaces shall abut upon a sealed surface driveway of not less than 20 feet in width if on street parking is prohibited, and 26 feet in width if on street parking is permitted on one side of the street only. Driveways must have unobstructed access to a public street or highway.
(I) Existing parks; parking allowances. In mobile home parks or travel trailer parks existing at the effective date of this chapter, parking on or adjacent to the street within the park is permissible so long as it does not obstruct free movements of traffic. Whether or not a safety hazard exists is a question to be determined by Code Enforcement. If Code Enforcement determines that a safety hazard does in fact exist, the mobile home park or travel trailer park concerned will be required to comply with division (J) of this section.
(J) New parks; parking requirements. In new mobile home parks, at least two clearly defined parking spaces will be provided for each mobile home space either on or adjacent to the mobile home space. In new travel trailer parks, at least one parking space shall be provided for each space either on or adjacent to the space.
(K) Clothes drying facilities. Clothes drying facilities shall be provided in every mobile home park or travel trailer park. Mobile home parks shall have at least one mechanical clothes drying unit in good condition; mechanical units shall be located in a service building. Travel trailer parks and mixed parks shall have at least one mechanical clothes drying unit for the first ten travel trailer spaces or any fraction thereof and an additional unit for each ten additional trailer spaces or fraction thereof.
(L) Driveway, walkway surface. All driveways and walkways within a park shall be at least asphalt oilrock sealed surface.
(M) Ingress and egress to thoroughfares.
(1) In the city limits area, new mobile home parks should abut, and have their major means of ingress and egress on at least a secondary thoroughfare.
(2) Travel trailer parks and mixed parks in the city limits area should abut and have their major means of ingress and egress on at least a primary thoroughfare.
(N) Landscaping; screening. All mobile home parks shall provide a suitable screening of landscaping, and also opaque fencing shall be installed where abutting existing single-family residential areas.
(Prior Code, § 9-9-8)