1172.01   LOCATION OF MOBILE HOMES; MOBILE HOME PARK REQUIREMENTS.
   (a)   No person shall locate a mobile home, trailer or similar portable residence structure in the Municipality except in a mobile home park in an R-3 Residence District.
   (b)   A mobile home park shall conform to the following requirements:
      (1)   It shall contain a minimum of four acres.
      (2)   It shall provide an adequate supply of Municipal water.
      (3)   It shall provide an adequate system of collective sanitary sewers, sewage treatment and disposal.
      (4)   It shall provide a clearly defined minimum lot area of 4,500 square feet, with a minimum lot width of forty-five feet and 400 square feet of floor area for each mobile home or trailer.
      (5)   It shall provide a minimum of twenty feet of clearance between the individual mobile homes or trailers and a fifty-foot setback from any property line bounding the mobile home park.
      (6)   All mobile home spaces shall abut upon a water-bound macadam driveway having a total depth of six inches and not less than twenty-five feet in width, which shall have unobstructed access to a private or public street.
      (7)   A safe, usable recreation area shall be conveniently located in each mobile home park and shall not be less than twenty percent of the gross area of the tract, or three acres, whichever is the least.
      (8)   It shall conform to all County and State Health Department requirements.
      (9)   Skirts shall be provided to screen space beneath mobile homes.
      (10)   It shall be landscaped with lawns and plantings, including appropriate trees.
      (11)   Mobile home parks shall be effectively screened on all sides by means of walls, fences or plantings, except where the area is sufficiently removed from other urban uses as determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals.  Walls or fences shall be a minimum of four feet in height without advertising thereon. In lieu of such wall or fence, a strip of land not less than ten feet in width and planted and maintained with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four feet in height may be substituted.
(Ord. 1466.  Passed 4-11-94; Am. Ord. 1905.  Passed 12-13-11.)