(A) Mobile home park construction or improvement. It is unlawful for any person to construct, enlarge, alter, improve, or convey any mobile home park or to improve any lands for use as a mobile home park, or to cause the same to be done, unless such person holds a valid and existing permit issued for the performance of such work by the Building Inspector.
(Prior Code, § 62.04.010)
(B) Permit procedure; building code. The procedures prescribed by the Uniform Building Code as adopted by the city and as amended from time to time, insofar as applicable and appropriate, are applicable to, and shall be followed in applying for, permits for the construction, alteration, enlargement, improvement, and the like of mobile home parks, except as specifically otherwise provided.
(Prior Code, § 62.04.020)
(C) Application; plot plan approval.
(1) In addition to other matters required to be submitted with an application for a building permit for a mobile home park, there shall be submitted with the application a complete plot plan drawn to scale which shall show the area and dimensions of the mobile home park; the number, location, and size of all mobile home spaces; the location, width, and arrangements of roadways and walkways; the location of service buildings and other proposed structures; the location of water and sewer lines; and the location and manner of protection for the playground area.
(2) The Inspector shall immediately transmit the plot plan to the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission shall promptly review the same, and if it shall appear therefrom that the plan complies with all applicable ordinances and regulations, that the means provided for access from mobile home spaces, play areas, and service buildings to roadways and public thoroughfares, and that the means of ingress and egress to, and from, public thoroughfares are so arranged as to make reasonable provision for the safety of users, it shall endorse its approval thereon and return the same to the Inspector. The Planning Commission may also, in its discretion, submit recommendations for the improvement of said plot plan, which will improve the economy, convenience, or efficiency of the use thereof, but such recommendations shall not be binding. If the Planning Commission shall find that said plan does not comply with applicable ordinances and regulations, or that the arrangement thereof does not provide for the safety and protection of the users, it shall disapprove said plan and return it to the Inspector with a statement in writing as to it’s reasons for disapproval. No permit shall be issued if the Planning Commission disapproves said plot plan.
(Prior Code, § 62.04.030)
(D) Mobile home park permit fee. A fee for each mobile home park construction permit shall be paid to the City Recorder at the time of the filing of the application therefor. The said fee shall be in addition to all other buildings, electrical, plumbing, and other fees required for work included in the mobile home park and shall be computed at the rate of $10 for the first 20,000 square feet, and $3 for each additional 5,000 square feet, or fraction thereof, included in the mobile home park.
(Prior Code, § 62.04.040)
(E) Denial of permit; review. Any person, firm, or corporation whose application for a permit under the provisions of this section has been denied by the Inspector may have said denial reviewed by the City Council upon filing with the Inspector a written request therefor within ten days after notice of such denial. Such written request shall specify with reasonable particularity the grounds on which the applicant relies for a reversal of the Inspector’s denial of the permit. The City Council may from time to time establish, promulgate, alter, and amend administrative rules and regulations providing the procedure for the conduct upon the hearing of such review.
(Prior Code, § 62.04.050)
(F) Unlawful to vary from approved plans and specifications. It is unlawful for any person to do any work in and about the construction, alteration, repair, improvement, or enlargement of any mobile home court or any structure thereon for which a permit is required, which varies in any substantial particular from the approved plans and specifications submitted with the application for such permit, and which were approved and on which the permit issued is, or was, based.
(Prior Code, § 62.04.060)
(G) Site, space, and general layout. It is unlawful to establish, build, or construct any mobile home court except on a well-drained site so located that drainage therefrom will not endanger any public culinary or domestic water supply. It is unlawful to establish, construct, or build any mobile home park except in an area free from marshes, swamps, and other potential breeding places for insects or rodents.
(Prior Code, § 62.04.070)
(Ord. 2-92, passed - -1992) Penalty, see § 157.999