A. Occupancy: No mobile home shall be occupied or used for living or sleeping purposes, or be parked, other than in a mobile home sales yard or in an approved storage area within a CS or M district, unless it is located within a licensed mobile home park, mobile home subdivision, or on a permanent foundation within an R or RM district; provided that a mobile home may also be used as follows: as an office for a construction project, circus or carnival; as a residence of a watchman on the site of a construction project or an industrial use; or to provide temporary living quarters for circus or carnival personnel in accordance with the provisions of an approved conditional use permit. (Ord. 622, 9-2-1980; amd. Ord. 645, 7-21-1981; 2007 Code)
B. Location And Access: For purposes of this title, mobile homes are considered to require the same considerations in their location as do multi-family dwellings under policies of the general plan. Mobile home parks shall be located only within RM districts, with access from the street system as follows:
1. Mobile home parks shall be located on or have direct access to an arterial or collector street, except as provided under subsection B2 of this section.
2. Access to a mobile home park from an arterial street may be indirect via a minor street, provided that the entrance from the minor street to the mobile home park is not less than three hundred feet (300') from the intersection of said minor street and the arterial street.
C. Development Standards, Mobile Home Parks:
1. Park Area, Density And Site Area:
a. The minimum area of a mobile home park shall be five (5) acres. The first phase of mobile home park development shall be not less than five (5) acres and shall include all required recreational and service amenities.
b. The maximum density shall be eight (8) mobile home sites per gross acre.
c. Each mobile home site shall be not less than three thousand (3,000) square feet in area, including pad, parking, private access, landscaping and private storage areas.
d. No mobile home site shall be less than thirty feet (30') in width.
2. Clearances, Setbacks And Yard Spaces:
a. | Mobile Home Parks: | |
Front yard | 20 feet | |
Interior side yard | 10 feet | |
Street side yard | 10 feet | |
Interior rear yard | 10 feet | |
Street rear yard | 20 feet | |
b. | Mobile Home Sites: | |
Front yard | 10 feet | |
Side yard | 5 feet | |
Rear yard | 10 feet | |
c. Encroachments Prohibited: No mobile home or incidental structure shall be located in any required yard space, except that tow bars may extend into such yard space. | ||
3. Patios And Pads:
a. Each mobile home site shall have a hard surfaced patio area of not less than two hundred (200) square feet. A permanent porch greater than twenty (20) square feet in area may be counted as part of the required patio area.
b. Each mobile home site shall have a support pad of concrete or asphalt concrete laid over a compacted surface base which, in combination, will be adequate to support the mobile home on a level plane.
4. Parking:
a. Not less than one parking space shall be provided within each mobile home site.
b. Not less than one guest parking space shall be provided for each mobile home site at a location central to each four (4) contiguous mobile home sites, provided that guest parking shall not be required for mobile home sites along a collector street constructed to the width prescribed under subsection C5 of this section.
c. Parking shall be provided for central recreation buildings, park offices and other similar buildings at a ratio of one parking space for each four hundred (400) square feet of gross floor space.
d. Supplemental parking for pleasure boats, recreation vehicles and nonoccupied travel trailers shall be provided at a ratio of one parking space for each ten (10) mobile homesites, and shall be used only by mobile home park tenants. Said parking shall be clustered, easily accessible via interior drives and shall be screened from view by means of a solid ornamental fence or wall and landscaping.
e. All parking areas and spaces shall be designed and constructed in accordance with the provisions of chapter 12 of this title.
5. Streets:
a. Entrance streets shall be located in alignment with or be offset from public street intersections by at least one hundred fifty feet (150').
b. Minor streets within the mobile home park shall be a minimum of thirty feet (30') of paved width; collector streets shall be a minimum of thirty six feet (36') of paved width. Paving shall be of AC type.
c. Streets shall be constructed to effect positive drainage; concrete curbs and gutters may be required by the city engineer; rolled AC curbs and valley gutters or their equivalent are required as a minimum.
d. Parallel parking shall be permitted on both sides of a collector street and on only one side of a minor street. Such on street parking shall be in addition to off street parking requirements of this section.
6. Driveways, Street Signs, Lighting, Storm Drainage, Water And Sewer System: Driveways for individual mobile home sites, street signs, interior street lighting, storm drainage facilities and water and sewer systems shall be installed subject to approval of the city engineer.
7. Underground Utilities: All public utilities shall be installed underground, including electrical, telephone, street lighting cable, community television antenna connections and ducts for cable television. A community television antenna with underground ducts and connections to each mobile home site shall be provided.
8. Recreation Areas And Pedestrianways:
a. Common recreation area in an aggregate total, equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross area of the mobile home park shall be provided at a location or locations which are easily accessible and convenient to park residents.
b. Recreation areas shall be landscaped and maintained, with all landscaped areas to be irrigated by an automatic underground sprinkler system.
c. Pedestrianways shall be provided throughout the mobile home park, connecting all mobile home sites with each other and with common recreation areas. Such pedestrianways shall be provided where possible at locations away from the interior street system to avoid conflict in pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
d. The calculation of common recreation areas shall not include yard areas, pedestrianways, management offices, laundry and tenant storage areas and parking areas.
9. Signs: No more than one identification sign shall be erected displaying the name of the mobile home park. Such signs shall be located near the park entrance drive and shall not exceed forty (40) square feet in total readable surface area, or ten feet (10') in height. Such sign shall be installed within the front yard area of the mobile home park, parallel to the abutting street, with landscaping at its base. Additional directional and identification signs may be installed within the mobile home park subject to the approval of the planning commission.
10. Landscaping And Screening: Mobile home parks shall provide permanently maintained landscaped areas and site screening as follows:
a. A landscaped border along the entire street frontage yard areas and along the rear yard if such yard is adjacent to a public street.
b. Ornamental screen wall or fencing, seven feet (7') in height, along all interior side property lines and along all rear property lines which do not abut a public street.
c. Ornamental screen wall or fencing seven feet (7') in height along street side yard and street front yard setback lines.
11. Other Facilities Required: Each mobile home park shall provide the following additional facilities:
a. A laundry building for clothes washing and drying.
b. An outdoor drying yard for clothes drying screened from view from other areas of the mobile home park by an ornamental screen fence or wall and landscaped area.
c. Trash enclosures at locations along the interior street system which are convenient to all residents and to municipal refuse trucks, integrated with guest parking areas.
12. Placement And Sales Of Mobile Homes:
a. At the time of placement on the site, all mobile homes shall be fitted with appropriate skirts to obscure stands, pads and under carriage equipment.
b. Mobile homes may be displayed and sold within a mobile home park similar to the sale of model homes within a residential subdivision; provided, that such mobile homes are not sold for delivery to any location other than within the park in which sold and that all mobile homes are placed on mobile home sites and connected to all utility services. No more than four (4) mobile homes shall be offered for sale at any one time, and advertising for such sale shall be limited to one nonilluminated sign not exceeding four (4) square feet in area on the site of each mobile home offered for sale.
D. Conditional Use And Site Plan Review: Application for mobile home parks shall be subject to the provisions of chapters 18 and 19 of this title. (Ord. 622, 9-2-1980)