(A) Plan required. No mobile home shall be located or altered, or land or water used, nor shall any certificate of occupancy be issued therefor by the Building Official unless and until the required mobile home park development plan is officially approved by resolution of the City Council and the required licensing provisions of Iowa Code Ch. 562B are complied with. Application for the approval of such development plan shall be made to the City Council in writing and the City Council may refer such application to the Planning and Zoning Commission for recommendations.
(B) Plan contents.
(1) The proposed mobile home park development plan shall show the following:
(a) Topography with topographic lines at a minimum of five-foot intervals;
(b) Park boundaries and dimensions; and
(c) Location and area of all uses, including streets adjacent to and within the park, walks, patios, mobile home stands; play areas, parks and common open spaces, parking areas, utilities including street lighting and fire hydrants, physical features, such as retaining walls, fences, trees and natural features; other information that may be required by the Planning, Engineering, Traffic, Fire, Health, Water or Building Departments; easements and dedications.
(2) The mobile home park plan shall be prepared by a landscape architect, architect, engineer, land surveyor or other experienced designer, and have the seal of a duly authorized engineer or land surveyor in the state certifying boundaries, boundary measurements and such other matters as are required to be so approved by the city platting ordinance.
(C) Zoning and site plan compliance. The proposed mobile home park development plan shall be in accordance with the site design plan approved by the City Council with the R-MH zoning granted for the proposed mobile home park.
(D) Construction and maintenance. Every mobile home park shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with the approved mobile home park development plan.
(E) Location of mobile homes. All mobile homes shall be located and maintained in full conformity with the approved mobile home park development plan.
(F) Criteria for approval. In approving mobile home parks, the City Council shall consider the location, size, height, spacing and extent of use of any mobile home and their appurtenances, access and circulation for vehicles and pedestrians, streets, parking areas, yards and open spaces and the relationship to adjacent property. The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission shall not recommend nor the city adopt such mobile home park development plan unless it finds that such plan conforms to all applicable provisions of this chapter.
(G) Streets and utilities. If such mobile home park development plan contains no dedication to the city for streets or utilities, or should it be contemplated that the facilities of the city shall not be used for maintenance of streets, sidewalks, water and sewer lines, garbage collection or other related functions, then such owner shall be required to record with such mobile home park plan a covenant that such owner will maintain such streets, sidewalks, water and sewer lines in compliance with the minimum standards as established by the city and that should the owner fail to maintain such standards in any of these respects, after ten days’ notice to such owner, effect all necessary repairs or improvements as required to maintain such minimum standards and the cost of all these and necessary repairs or improvements shall become a lien against such real estate and enforced and recorded as mechanic’s liens are enforced and recorded against such real estate, and such covenant shall contain the following proviso: “that , being the owner or owners of the real estate contained in the above attached mobile home park development plan, hereby consent that if they, or their assignees, heirs or those holding or owning said land through said owners, fail to maintain the streets, sidewalks, water and sewer mains according to and in compliance with the minimum standards for the maintenance of streets, sidewalks, water and sewer mains as established by the city that, after ten days’ notice in writing to the owner of said land as shown upon the records in the County Auditor’s office of Jasper County, Iowa, and at the address therein shown, then said owner, assignees, heirs, and those holding or owning through said owners, hereby authority the city of Newton, Iowa, to make all necessary repairs and perform all necessary maintenance and further authorize the City of Newton, Iowa, to file a mechanic’s lien or such other lien or encumbrance against said real estate and enforce said lien pursuant to laws then applicable.”
(H) Amended plans. Amending procedure and re-submission of plan for approval as to undeveloped area.
(1) If it is found necessary to make material and substantial alterations or modifications to an approved mobile home park development plan, such alterations or modifications shall be subject to the approval of the City Council.
(2) A request for approval of alterations or modifications of a previously approved mobile home park development plan shall be accompanied by the same kind and number of exhibits as is required for a new request for approval insofar as such exhibits are applicable to the requested alterations or modifications. When the City Council, by official resolution, approves the revised mobile home park development plan, such revised plan will supplant the original approved mobile home park development plan.
(3) If the total area covered in the mobile home park development plan is not developed within the period of three years, then the approval of the City Council as to the original plan shall expire as to the undeveloped portion of such area and a new plan must be submitted to the Council as to such undeveloped area containing such revisions and changed as may be necessary by reason of any changes that may have occurred in the environmental conditions and general area in which the plan is located.
(2011 Code, § 33.0103)