A. Minimum Size: Unless located in a manufactured home park, all manufactured homes used for living purposes shall be at least twenty four feet (24') wide and at least thirty feet (30') long, and placed on a permanent foundation.
B. Prohibited Manufactured Homes: Manufactured homes shall be prohibited that:
1. Do not conform to the requirements of chapter 1350 of the Minnesota State Rules.
2. Are in an unsanitary condition.
C. Land Area: All land areas shall be properly maintained:
1. Adequately drained.
2. Free from dust.
3. Clean and free from refuse, garbage, rubbish or debris.
D. Tents: No tents shall be erected or occupied.
E. Outdoor Camping: There shall be no outdoor camping anywhere in the manufactured home park.
F. Speaker System: No public address or loudspeaker system shall be permitted.
G. Access: Access to manufactured home parks shall be as approved by the City.
H. Registry: So as to assist emergency service providers, the operator of every manufactured home park shall maintain a registry of the manufactured home park showing:
1. The name and address of each guest or permanent resident.
2. The make, type and license number of each manufactured home and automobile.
I. Map Displayed: A map of the manufactured home park shall be displayed at the entrance to the park and be illuminated during all hours of darkness so as to be visible by emergency service providers.
J. Consent Required: No person shall erect, place, construct, reconstruct, relocate, alter, maintain, use or occupy a cabana or structure in a manufactured home park without the written consent of the owner or operator of the manufactured home park.
K. Building Permit Required: All structures (fences, roads, storage space, cabana, ramada or other) shall require a building permit.
L. Enclosed Area Under Home: The area beneath a manufactured home shall be enclosed, except that such enclosure must be openable for inspection.
M. Clotheslines: Laundry and clothes shall be hung out to dry only on lines located in approved areas established and maintained exclusively for that purpose.
N. Transient Trailer Sites: No building, cabana, ramada, carport, awning, storage closet, cupboard or other structure shall be permitted on a transient trailer site, except plumbing and electrical service connections.
O. Central Community Building: Where manufactured home park has a central community building with the following features:
1. Laundry drying areas and machines;
2. Laundry washing machines;
3. Showers;
4. Public toilets and lavatories;
such buildings shall have central heating and be maintained in a safe, clean and sanitary condition.
P. Site Plan Requirements:
1. Five (5) copies of a plot plan of the proposed manufactured home park shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for its consideration. Said plot plan shall be drawn to scale and showing:
a. Legal description and size in acres of the proposed manufactured home park.
b. Location and size of all manufactured home sites, dead storage areas, recreation areas, laundry drying areas, roadways, parking sites and all setback dimensions (parking spaces, exact manufactured home sites, etc.).
c. Detailed landscaping plans and specifications.
d. Location and width of sidewalks.
e. Plans for sanitary sewage disposal, surface drainage, water systems, electrical service and gas service.
f. Location, size and character of each cabana and cabana site.
g. Location and size of all streets abutting the manufactured home park and all driveways from such streets to the manufactured home park.
h. Road construction plans and specifications.
i. Plans for any and all structures.
j. Such other information as required or implied by these manufactured home park standards or requested by City, County and State officials.
k. Name and address of developer.
l. Description of the method of disposing of garbage and refuse.
m. Detailed description of maintenance procedures and grounds supervision.
n. Description of construction plans, (i.e., time involved, cost estimates, stage development, if any, and so on).
Q. Design Standards:
1. Site:
a. Each manufactured home site shall contain at least four thousand (4,000) square feet of land for the exclusive use of the occupant:
(1) Width: No less than forty feet (40').
(2) Depth: No less than one hundred feet (100').
b. Each manufactured home site shall have the following features:
(1) Frontage on an approved roadway.
(2) A sidewalk along the entire frontage with a sidewalk connecting from the manufactured home entrance to the frontage sidewalk. Sidewalk shall be hard surfaced.
c. The corners of each manufactured home site shall be clearly marked and each site shall be numbered.
d. The area occupied by a manufactured home shall not exceed seventy five percent (75%) of the total area of a manufactured home site; land may be occupied by a trailer, a vehicle, a building, a cabana, a ramada, a carport, an awning, storage closet or cupboard, or any structure; unoccupied land shall be landscaped.
2. Setbacks:
a. No manufactured home shall be parked closer than five feet (5') to the side lot lines, nor closer than twenty feet (20') to the front lot line, or within twenty five feet (25') of the rear lot line.
b. There shall be an open space of at least ten feet (10') between the sides of adjacent manufactured homes.
c. Automobiles may park no closer than five feet (5') to the side of any manufactured home; automobiles shall not, however, be parked nearer than five feet (5') to any side lot line.
d. No manufactured home, off street parking space or building shall be located within twenty feet (20') of the exterior boundary of any manufactured home park.
e. Manufactured home sites with access to public streets shall conform to all setback and other requirements of the zoning district in which said site is located.
f. No manufactured home shall be closer than thirty feet (30') from the exterior property lines of any manufactured home park.
3. Parking:
a. Each manufactured home site shall have a hard surfaced off-street parking space for two (2) automobiles.
b. Each manufactured home park shall maintain a hard surface off street parking lot for guests or occupants in the amount of one space for each five (5) manufactured home sites.
c. All manufactured home parks must have an area or areas set aside for dead storage and "overload" parking.
d. Access drives, off roads, to all parking spaces and manufactured home sites shall be hard surfaced.
4. Utilities:
a. All manufactured homes shall be connected to public water and sanitary sewer system, or a water and sewer system approved by the Minnesota Department of Health.
b. All plans for disposal of surface stormwater must be approved by the City.
c. All utility connections shall be as approved by the City.
d. The source of fuel for cooking, heating or other purposes at each manufactured home site shall be as approved by the City.
e. All utilities shall be underground; there shall be no overhead wires or supporting poles, except those essential for street or other lighting purposes.
f. No obstruction shall be permitted that impedes the inspection of plumbing, electrical facilities and related manufactured home equipment.
g. The proposed method of garbage, waste and trash disposal must be as approved by the City.
5. Internal Roads And Streets:
a. Roads shall be hard surfaced as approved by the City.
b. All roads shall have a hard surfaced (mountable roll type) curb and gutter.
c. Rights-of-way shall be no less than fifty feet (50') in width.
d. All streets shall be developed as approved by the City.
6. Sidewalks:
a. There shall be a hard-surfaced sidewalk across the front of each manufactured home site and parallel to the street. Said sidewalk shall not be less than five feet (5') wide.
7. Recreation: All manufactured home parks shall have at least ten percent (10%) of the land areas developed for recreational use (tennis courts, children's play equipment, swimming pool, golf greens, etc.), developed and maintained at the owner/operator's expense.
8. Landscaping:
a. Each site shall have a front yard not less than twenty feet (20') in depth across the entire frontage; this yard shall be landscaped, except for necessary driveway and sidewalk needs which shall not exceed one-half (1/2) the width of the site.
b. A landscaped rear yard shall be maintained to a depth of twenty five feet (25').
c. A five foot (5') landscaped side yard (both sides) shall be maintained.
d. A compact hedge, redwood fence or landscaped area shall be installed around each manufactured home park and be maintained in first class condition at all times as approved.
e. All areas shall be landscaped in accordance with a landscaping plan approved by the City Council.
9. Lighting:
a. Artificial light shall be maintained during all hours of darkness in all buildings containing public toilets, laundry equipment and the like.
b. The manufactured home park grounds shall be lighted as approved by the City from sunset to sunrise. (Ord. 96, 6th Series, eff. 9-5-2017)