(A) Establishment hearing; information required. No manufactured home park shall be established, except as a conditional use. The conditional use permit for this shall not be issued except after a public hearing. Manufactured home parks may be located in this district and in any other district in which two or more family dwellings are a permitted use. No public hearing shall be held until the following information is submitted:
(1) Location and size of the manufactured home park;
(2) Location and size of each housing unit site, dead storage area, recreation area, roadways and parking sites and all setback dimensions;
(3) Detailed landscaping plans and specifications;
(4) Professional engineered design plans for sanitary sewer disposal, surface drainage and retention, potable water systems, electrical services and fuel systems and storm shelters;
(5) Other information as is necessary to ensure conformance with the requirements of this chapter; and
(6) Berming plans with planting schedule for screening and buffering in accordance with § 154.115 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 and support areas.
(2) Each manufactured home park shall have access to a private street which is deemed adequate to service a fire lane and the anticipated traffic generated by the park.
(3) Each manufactured home park shall provide public potable water and sewer facilities in accordance with standards determined by the city and the State Department of Health.
(4) Each manufactured home park shall provide a common central television 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. These spaces shall be developed and maintained by the owner of the manufactured home park. The development shall be approved by the Parks, Recreation and Community Education Advisory Board.
(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. These signs may be illuminated, but not flashing. The maximum height of these 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 and accessible 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 plans for every manufactured home park to provide for a street fronting on each manufactured home site. The 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. Reference state statutes.
(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 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 12 feet by 16 feet (or smaller) utility building, the siding and color of which matches the manufactured home. The shed will be permitted without a cement slab; however, sheds placed on skids must be skirted to control rodents and pests. Responsibility for policing this requirement rests with the park manager.
(18) Each manufactured home site shall have at least one tree and one exterior light.
(19) Portions of each site not occupied by buildings or parking spaces shall be landscaped.
(20) Parking shall be located within the park’s boundaries.
(21) Each manufactured home park shall have exterior security street lighting designed and installed to engineering standards and as approved at the recommendation of the Chief of Police.
(C) Requirements for lot dimensions and setbacks.
(1) Minimum lot dimensions.
Type of Manufactured Home | Minimum Lot Depth* | Minimum Lot Width |
Double-wide manufactured home | 115 feet | 65 feet |
Single-wide manufactured home | 100 feet | 50 feet |
NOTES TO TABLE: * Measured from the edge of the road unless the lots are platted. | ||
(2) Minimum building setbacks.
R-5 Use | Front Setback | Rear | Main Entry Side | Secondary Entry Side | Interior Side | Corner Side |
Accessory building | 50 feet | 0 feet | - | - | 5 feet | 20 feet |
Manufactured home | 25 feet | 10 feet | 25 feet | 10 feet | - | - |
Parking setbacks | 5 feet | - | - | - | - | - |
(3) Distance from park boundary. No manufactured house, parking space or accessory building may be located within 30 feet of the exterior boundary of a manufactured home park.
(D) Building permit and development requirements.
(1) Initial permits for 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:
(a) Location and size of the manufactured home park;
(b) Location and size of each manufactured home site, dead storage area, recreation area, roadways and parking sites, and all setback dimensions;
(c) Detailed landscaping plans and specifications with appropriate buffering;
(d) Plans for sanitary sewer disposal, surface drainage, water systems, electrical services, fuel systems and trash disposal;
(e) Location and specifications for all streets abutting the manufactured home park and proposed driveways from these streets into the park;
(f) All road construction plans and specifications;
(g) Complete construction plans for all proposed structures; and
(h) Other information as is necessary to ensure conformance with the requirements of this chapter.
(2) 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.
(3) The city may require performance bonds in amounts adequate to insure that development proposed in the plan submitted is actually completed.
(4) All developers of manufactured home parks shall provide evidence that the plans therefor have been approved by the State 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.
(6) All manufactured homes as defined by M.S. §§ 327.31 through 327.35, as they may be amended from time to time, shall be anchored in accordance with the State Building Code, as it may be amended from time to time.
(7) Any newly installed manufactured home older than 15 years from time of the building permit will require an inspection to confirm the following life safety criteria.
(8) All relocated manufactured homes pre- 6-14-1976, require a conditional use permit. Approval may be granted; provided, the following criteria are met:
(a) Smoke detectors are required in each bedroom and in the corridor;
(b) The windows must be double glaze, minimum;
(c) One egress window is required from each bedroom;
(d) Gas piping installation must be retested, reinspected and approved by the City Building Inspector. Hutch Utilities provides seven-inch w.c.;
(e) The electrical service must be a minimum of 100-amp circuit breaker type with ground fault interruption. All electrical must be intact and safe (i.e., no exposed wiring);
(f) A building permit is required after approval of the conditional use permit;
(g) Compliance with M.S. §§ 327.32 and 327.34, as they may be amended from time to time, and other applicable building codes and standards and regulations; and
(h) Common sense items, including, but not limited to, no broken windows, handrails, guardrails, safe heating appliances and water heaters, no holes in floors, no exposed wiring, a shower/bathtub, functional water closets and the like.
(2004 Code, § 154.060) (Ord. 464, passed 1- -1996; Ord. 97-192, passed 4-8-1997; Ord. 98-237, passed 9-8-1998) Penalty, see § 154.999