(A) Intent. The purpose of the recreational vehicle park zoning district shall be to locate and establish areas within the city which are deemed to be uniquely suited for the development and maintenance of recreational vehicle activities, i.e., travel trailers, motor homes, camping tents, and trailers occupied as temporary living quarters; to designate those uses and services deemed appropriate and proper for location and development within the zoning district; and to establish such development standards and provisions as are appropriate to ensure proper development and functioning of uses within the district.
(B) Principal uses and structures:
(1) Travel trailers, recreational vehicles, motor homes, camping tents and other vehicles with sleeping accommodations.
(2) Management offices and residence (a mobile home may be allowed for a manager's residence only).
(C) Accessory uses:
(1) Grocery store.
(2) Bottled gas sales.
(3) Laundry facilities.
(4) Recreational facilities such as playgrounds, picnic areas, swimming pools, game courts, and recreation hall.
(5) Public utility equipment and facilities.
(D) Conditional uses:
(1) Marina and boat rental including bait, fishing, and sports accessories sales serving guests of the park and/or the general public.
(E) Design standards for recreational vehicle parks.
(1) Minimum size: ten (10) acres.
(2) Maximum density: fifteen (15) travel trailer/R.V. sites per gross acre of land. This shall also apply to any tent camping areas.
(3) Streets and parking:
(a) Direct access to the recreational vehicle park shall be from an arterial roadway. The administrative office of the park shall be so located as to assure that no recreational vehicles are parked in the right-of-way during the check-in process or while waiting for others to be checked in.
(b) Width of streets. Streets or driveways in a recreational vehicle park shall be private and shall have the following widths:
1. A one-way street/drive shall be at least twelve (12) feet in width.
2. A two-way street/drive shall be at least twenty-four (24) feet in width.
(c) Street surfacing. All roads or driveways shall be paved meeting city standards.
(d) Road curves. All road curves shall have a minimum turning radius of fifty (50) feet. All culs-de-sac shall have a maximum length of five hundred (500) feet and terminate in a turning circle having a minimum radius of fifty (50) feet.
(e) Parking. Each travel trailer site shall have off-street parking pads for both recreational vehicles and for towing vehicles. The pads shall be composed of a stabilized material meeting city standards.
(4) Buffer strips. A twenty-five (25) foot minimum yard setback shall be provided from all exterior property lines and right-of-ways. The recreational vehicle park shall be entirely enclosed, exclusive of driveways, at its external boundaries by a solid wall, wood or PVC fence, or evergreen hedge not less than six (6) feet in height. The buffer strip shall be separate from recreational areas, streets, driveways, travel trailer sites (R.V. sites) and utility sites, but may be utilized for stormwater drainage and retention purposes.
(5) Recreational areas. A minimum of ten percent (10%) of the total land area of a travel trailer park shall be devoted to one (1) or more common use areas for recreational activity. In addition, for every travel trailer and tent site, there shall be allocated an additional one hundred (100) square feet of land for recreational activity. However, this requirement is not necessary when the proposed development is a density of ten (10) sites per gross acre or less. Such recreational areas shall be exclusive of travel trailer sites, buffer strips, street right-of-way and storage areas; however, the periphery of such areas may contain utility sites, and other nonrecreational service buildings, the area of which will be subtracted from the computed “recreational area.” Recreational areas shall be easily accessible to all park users and management. Although the required space for recreational usage may be met through more than one (1) recreational site, the minimum size of any such area shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet. Provision for all common open space and the construction of recreational facilities which are shown on the site plan shall proceed at an equivalent, or greater, rate as the construction of individual travel trailer sites.
(6) Tent camping. Areas may be set aside for tent camping in accordance with all provisions of this section, except:
(a) There shall be a stabilized pad on the site for parking of the transportation vehicle.
(b) Tent camping may be permitted on a travel trailer site.
(F) Design requirements for recreational vehicle site.
(1) Minimum size.
(a) Back-in parking sites shall have a minimum area of one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet with a minimum width of thirty (30) feet and a minimum length of fifty (50) feet.
(b) Drive-through parking sites shall have a minimum area of one thousand two hundred (1,200) square feet with minimum width of twenty (20) feet and a minimum length of sixty (60) feet.
(2) Access. Each R.V./travel trailer site shall abut on at least one (1) street or driveway within the boundaries of the travel trailer park and access to the site shall be only from such an internal street or driveway.
(3) Setback requirements. No part of a travel trailer placed on a travel trailer site shall be closer than five (5) feet to any site line and ten (10) feet to any street or driveway.
(4) Appurtenances. Temporary appurtenances, such as cabanas and awnings, may be erected on a travel trailer site as long as such appurtenances do not violate the setback requirements as set forth in this section and as long as such appurtenances are capable of being dismantled and stored within four (4) hours.
(G) Provisions of service in recreational vehicle parks.
(1) Service buildings. All service buildings shall comply with the building code and regulations concerning buildings, electrical installations, plumbing and sanitation systems.
(2) Water supply. An adequate supply of water shall be provided in accordance with the regulatory agencies. A minimum of one (1) potable water supply outlet shall be provided for every two (2) travel trailer sites. Each recreational area and bathhouse-restroom facility shall have at least one (1) approved drinking fountain in close proximity.
(3) Sewage disposal.
(a) All sewage disposal facilities shall be provided in accordance with the regulatory agencies.
(b) At least one (1) sanitary dumping station shall be provided in every travel trailer park. Such station shall be readily accessible and well- lighted. The following schedule shall be used in determining additional dumping stations based on the number of sites which are not connected individually to sewer lines: for every fifty (50) sites or fractional part thereof, beyond the first (50) sites, one (1) sanitary dumping station shall be provided.
(c) At least one (1) central bathhouse-restroom facility shall be located within three hundred (300) feet of all camping units which are either not supplied with sewer connections or not capable of utilizing such connections (e.g., tents, camper trailers). Any dispersed bathhouse-restroom facility provided to meet the distance requirement of three hundred (300) feet shall have at least two (2) of each of the following fixtures for men and women: Toilets, urinals, lavatories and showers. Recreational areas shall be located within three hundred (300) feet of a bathhouse-restroom facility.
(d) The minimum number of bath and toilet facilities shall be determined by the latest adopted Florida Building Code.
(4) Lighting. All entrances, exits, streets, and service buildings shall be well lighted during the hours of darkness. Street lighting may be overhead or low level but must be shielded and reflected into the street and should be of low intensity. All recreational facilities which are to be utilized during the hours of darkness shall be adequately lighted to ensure the safety of all users of such facilities.
(5) Electricity. All requirements of the National Electrical Code as contained in this code of ordinances must be met.
(6) Service and utility lines. All service utility lines in a travel trailer park shall be installed underground and at a minimum depth of eighteen (18) inches.
(7) Refuse handling. Each travel trailer site shall be provided with at least one (1) fly-tight, watertight, rodent- proof container of a capacity not less than four (4) gallons and not more than thirty (30) gallons. However, this is not required when sites are within two hundred (200) feet of a large covered trash receptacle (e.g., dumpster). All refuse shall be collected at least twice weekly and where public or private collection service is not available, the owner or operator of the travel trailer park shall dispose of the refuse by transporting it to a disposal site approved by the regulatory agency. All refuse shall be collected and transported in covered vehicles or covered containers.
(8) Insect and rodent control. Grounds, buildings and structures shall be maintained free of insect and rodent harborage and infestation. Extermination methods and other measures to control insects and rodents shall conform to the requirements and regulations of the regulatory agency. Adequate drainage systems will be provided and maintained in such a manner as to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes and other obnoxious insects in the park.
(9) Fire protection. The travel trailer park shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the Fire Department.
(10) Fuel supply and storage. All installations and tanks furnishing and/or storing any type of gaseous fuels to be used by the occupants of the travel trailer park shall comply with the Fire Prevention Code of the National Fire Prevention Association, as adopted.
(11) Storage. Outdoor storage of travel trailers is permitted that such storage takes place within an area especially set aside for such use.
(12) Signs. Those signs necessary for directional or safety purposes are permitted. All other signs as per the sign regulations set forth in Chapter 178 of this code of ordinances.
(H) Operation of recreational vehicle park.
(1) Responsibilities of park management. The owner of a travel trailer park or the park management shall at all times maintain the park and its facilities in a clean, orderly, and sanitary condition. The park management shall inform all park occupants of the provisions of this section, other related code provisions and ordinances of the city, and statutes, and of their responsibilities thereunder.
(2) Length of occupancy. No guest of a travel trailer park shall remain in the same park for no more than thirty (30) days.
(3) Register of occupants. A register of all travel trailer occupants in the park shall be maintained with the following information:
(a) The name and address of each travel trailer owner or operator making use of the travel trailer park.
(b) The dates of arrival and departure of each travel trailer.
(4) Evacuation. It shall be the responsibility of the park management to notify all park occupants of the need to evacuate the travel trailer park in case of fire, wind, water or other manmade disasters or acts of God.
(5) Animal control. It shall be the responsibility of the park manager to ensure that no owner or person in charge of an animal shall permit the animal to run at large or to commit any nuisance within the limits of any travel trailer park.
(I) Regulation of recreational vehicle parks.
(1) Use and occupancy permits. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a travel trailer park within Palm Bay without first obtaining a business tax receipt, in the name of such person, to operate the specific park.
(2) Inspection. The Health Official, Building Official, Code Enforcement Official and Fire Department are authorized to make periodic inspections of the travel trailer park and travel trailer sites for the purpose of determining satisfactory compliance with the regulations of this section pertaining to the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of the city.
(3) Revocation of permit. Whenever any of the above officials, upon inspection of a travel trailer park, find that conditions or practices exist which are in violation of any applicable provision of this section, they shall furnish the permittee with a list of violations that the inspection shall reveal, and give the permittee written notice of a specific reasonable time in which to remedy the violations. Failure of the permittee to remedy the violations within the specific time shall result in the revocation of the business tax receipt. Such permit shall be reissued only if the violations have been remedied to comply with the requirements of this section. The users of the travel trailer park shall have two (2) days from the date of the revocation in which to vacate the travel trailer park. The permittee shall be granted a hearing on such revocation before the City Council provided a request is made by the applicant within thirty (30) days after the revocation.
(J) Development site plan review. As part of the supplementary data required to complete an application for a public hearing for a recreational vehicle/travel-trailer park development, a scaled and dimensioned plot or site plan of the development shall be submitted as part of such application (if the site plan is greater than eleven (11) inches by seventeen (17) inches, two (2) copies are needed, as well as a digital copy); and if the application is approved, the recreational vehicle/travel trailer park shall be built in accordance with such a plan. The site plan shall include, but not be limited to, location of all R.V./travel trailer sites, service areas, drives, streets, signs, buildings, parking, recreational space, setbacks, public utility locations and any other pertinent information. Site plan approval is limited to one (1) year by the City Council.
('74 Code, § 25-131) (Ord. 89-08, passed 4-27-89; Am. Ord. 94-28, passed 6-16-94; Am. Ord. 95-44, passed 11-2-95; Am. Ord. 2010-76, passed 11-4-10; Am. Ord. 2016-17, passed 4-21-16)