(A) Mobile home parks. No mobile home park shall be permitted on an area of less than two acres in size. The developer may be permitted to develop the park, in stages as long as he or she complies with the overall approved plan for the entire tract. The number of manufactured housing units permitted in the park shall not exceed a density of ten manufactured housing units per net acre. A net acre being the land to be subdivided into lots after streets and other required improvements have been installed.
(B) Lot requirements. Individual lots within a mobile home park shall not be less than 4,000 square feet in area and on a Health Department approved sewage disposal system and in no instance shall more than one manufactured housing unit be permitted on a single lot. The minimum lot width shall be 50 feet.
(C) Setback. No manufactured housing unit or structure shall be located closer to any public street than the minimum front yard setback for permanent residential structures in the Residential Zone in which the park is located. No manufactured housing unit shall be located closer than 25 feet to any building or street within the park or to any property line of the park.
(D) Frontage. All mobile home parks shall front on a public street or road for at least 100 feet.
(E) Spacing. No manufactured housing unit shall be located within 25 feet of another manufactured housing unit except that a minimum end-to-end clearance of not less than 15 feet shall be permitted, and in instances where the sides opposite the entrance of two manufactured housing units may be reduced to not less than 20 feet.
(F) Streets. All manufactured housing spaces shall abut upon a street within the trailer park and shall have a right-of-way of not less than 25 feet and a pavement of not less than 20 feet. Each park shall have at least one street which gives access to a public street. The access streets in either a single mobile home park or parks, shall not be less than 100 feet apart nor be less than 125 feet from an intersection of two or more public streets. All streets within the park shall be paved, hard-surfaced, well-drained and well-lighted. No street right-of-way within the mobile home park shall be within five feet of the property line. The owner of the mobile home park shall maintain the streets within the mobile park.
(G) Parking. One paved automobile parking area shall be provided on every manufactured housing lot, plus one-half parking space for each mobile home lot. This additional parking may be in a central location, but in no case more than 300 feet from the manufactured housing unit for which it is provided.
(H) Utilities. All lots within the mobile home park shall be provided with water, sewer and electrical facilities meeting the standards specified by county and state regulations, and each manufactured housing unit shall be properly connected with the utilities.
(I) Accessory structures. No accessory structure including patios and pads shall be located within five feet from any manufactured housing lot line. The maximum floor area shall be 100 square feet and the maximum height shall be no greater than ten feet.
(J) Foundation. All manufactured housing must be placed either on concrete foundations or mortared concrete blocks.
(K) Anchorage and tie-down. Every space for manufactured units shall be provided with devices for anchoring the unit to prevent overturning or uplift. The owner shall be responsible for causing the unit to be anchored. Where concrete platforms are provided for the parking of mobile units, anchorage shall be provided with eyelets embedded in the concrete with adequate anchor plates or hooks or other suitable means. The anchorage shall be adequate to withstand wind forces and uplift as required by the state’s Building Code.
(L) Connecting structures. Only porches, stairs and other open structures may be attached to a manufactured housing unit. No structure for human occupancy shall be built to the mobile home.
(M) Procedure. In applying for a zoning permit for a mobile home park, the applicant shall submit his or her plan to the Planning Commission for its approval in accordance with the preliminary plat approval of the county’s subdivision regulations. The plan shall show the following information:
(1) Plat of the entire park property;
(2) Subdivision of the property, including all streets, dimensions of streets and lots, access to public streets and public areas such as visitors parking spaces, recreational areas, swimming pools and the like, if the areas are proposed;
(3) Location and layout of all utilities, including pipe sizes, meter locations, valves, fire hydrants, sanitary sewer connections, manholes and connections to the existing public utilities;
(4) Typical layout of one mobile home lot, showing manufactured housing unit location automobile parking spaces, patio garbage can receptors and the like; and
(5) Location of planting to be provided for landscaping purposes, or as required for protective buffer.
(N) Issuance of zoning permit. The Planning Commission may attach reasonable special conditions to its approval of a mobile home park and may direct the Administrative Officer to issue a zoning permit when the applicant presents a valid construction permit from the state’s Department of Health, as required by KRS Chapter 219. The Administrative Officer shall not issue the zoning permit until he or she has received written authorization from the Planning Commission, or Board of Adjustment, and until the valid construction permit is presented.
(O) Issuance of certificate of compliance. The Administrative Officer shall issue a certificate of compliance only after he or she has determined that the mobile home park has been prepared according to all applicable state regulations and special conditions and only after the applicant presents a valid permit to operate from the state’s Department of Health as required by state statutes.
(P) Enforcement. The Administrative Officer shall ensure that all mobile home parks maintain valid permits to operate and maintain conformance with all applicable regulations of this chapter and all special conditions.
(Q) Existence. All existing manufactured housing units within the planning unit which complied with all existing regulations at the time of passage of this chapter shall be allowed to remain in their present location. No future manufactured housing unit in a new site shall be permanently located outside of an approved park, except as provided in Agricultural and Residential Districts.
(R) Conflict of regulations. All parts of any existing regulation in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
(Prior Code, § 152.076) Penalty, see § 152.999