Establishment of manufactured home subdivisions (owner occupied) and parks (rented) is prohibited within the limits of the city except as an approved conditional use in the A-1 Zone and R-2 Zone.
(A) Intent. It is the intent of this section to regulate the location of and to encourage, stabilize, and protect the development of well-planned mobile home parks.
(B) Approval procedures.
(1) Manufactured home parks shall contain no lots smaller than 5,000 square feet and shall be located only in an A-1 District and shall be developed according to the general standards and regulations stated in division (C) below.
(2) A development plan approved in accordance with these regulations, seven is required prior to the construction or occupation of any mobile home park.
(3) All homes placed for occupation in a mobile home park are required to have a building permit.
(4) Only qualified Class A and Class B manufactured homes are permitted in mobile home parks. Class C manufactured homes are considered nonconforming structures. (Conditional use requiring Board of Adjustment approval.)
(C) General standards for manufactured (mobile) home parks. The Planning Commission shall review the particular facts and circumstances of each proposed manufactured (mobile) home park in terms of the following standards and shall find adequate evidence, as a condition of approval, showing that the mobile home park development:
(1) Will be designed, constructed, operated, and maintained so as to be harmonious and appropriate in appearance with the character of the general vicinity;
(2) Will not be hazardous or detrimental to existing or future neighborhood uses;
(3) Will be served adequately by essential public facilities and services such as highways, streets, police and fire protection, fire hydrants, street lights, drainage, refuse disposal, and schools or that the persons or the agencies responsible for the establishment of the proposed park shall be able to provide adequately any such services;
(4) Will be consistent with the intent and purpose of this regulation and the Comprehensive Plan;
(5) Will have vehicular approaches to the property which shall be so designed as not to create an interference or safety hazard with traffic on surrounding public streets or roads; or
(6) Will not result in the destruction, loss, or damage of natural, scenic, or historic features of major importance.
(D) Design standards and principal access.
(1) Manufactured (mobile) home parks locational and design standards. A minimum of five acres with a minimum of 200 feet of frontage on an arterial or major collector street as determined by the Commission.
(2) Principal access shall be at a location where traffic congestion does not exist at the present and such future congestion will be minimized.
(3) No vehicular entrance or exit will be within 200 feet of the property line on any lot containing a school, public playground, church, hospital, library, nursing or rest home, except where
that building or property is in another block or fronts a street on which the manufactured home park has no access.
(Ord. 2004-03, passed - -; Ord. 1998-15, passed 10-13-1998; Ord. 2004-04, passed 8-3-2004; Ord. 2004-06, passed 11-19-2004; Ord. passed 5- -2005)