(A) Review and approval. No construction or permit license may be issued on a new manufactured home park until the park plat is reviewed and approved by the Director of Community Development, the Planning Commission, and the City Council. All engineering fees for review shall be paid by the applicant.
(B) Water and sewage. All permits will be issued based upon the availability of city water and sewage treatment capacity as determined by the Director of Community Development.
(C) General requirements. The minimum size of a manufactured home park shall be five acres. Conditions of soil, ground water level, drainage, and topography shall not create hazards to the property or the health or safety of the occupants. The site shall not be exposed to dangerous conditions or subject to unpredictable and/or sudden flooding, subsidence or erosion.
(D) Two entrances. All manufactured home parks with five or more manufactured homes or recreation vehicles shall have two entrances into the park for health and safety purposes. Emergency vehicles must be able to enter and exit without having to back up.
(E) Soil and ground cover requirements. Exposed ground surfaces in all areas of every manufactured home park shall be paved, covered with stone screenings or other solid material, or protected with a vegetative growth that is capable of preventing soil erosion and of eliminating objectionable dust.
(F) Site drainage requirements. The ground surface in all areas of every manufactured home park shall be graded and equipped to drain all surface water in a safe and efficient manner. The following shall be shown on the plans and specifications prepared by a registered professional engineer:
(1) Calculations showing the anticipated storm water flow, including watershed area, percent runoff, and time of concentration. When a drainage ditch, storm sewer, or detention pond is proposed, calculations shall be submitted showing the basis for design;
(2) When a drainage channel, storm sewer, or detention pond is proposed, complete plans, profiles, and specifications shall be submitted, showing complete construction details; and
(3) When conditions upstream or downstream from a proposed detention pond, drainage channel, or storm sewer do not permit maximum design flow, high water marks based on five-year frequency shall be indicated based on existing conditions.
(G) Required separation between manufactured homes in manufactured home parks.
(1) Manufactured homes shall be separated from each other and from buildings and structures by at least 15 feet on the sides and end-to-end clearance of ten feet. Existing manufactured homes in manufactured home parks as of the date of this chapter are exempt from this requirement.
(2) An accessory structure which has a horizontal area exceeding 25 square feet and is attached to a manufactured home or located within ten feet shall, for purposes of all separation requirements, be considered to be part of the manufactured home.
(H) Required recreation areas.
(1) In all manufactured home parks accommodating or designed to accommodate 25 or more manufactured homes, there shall be not less than one recreation area which shall be easily accessible to all park residents.
(2) The size of the recreation areas shall be based upon a minimum of 100 square feet for each manufactured home space. No outdoor recreation area shall contain less than 2,500 square feet.
(3) Recreation areas shall be located so as to be free of traffic hazards and should, where the topography permits, be centrally located.
(I) Required setbacks, buffer strips, and screening in manufactured home parks.
(1) Any manufactured home park constructed after the date of this chapter shall be located 100 feet or more from an existing residential area, church, or retail business. All existing manufactured home parks as of the date of this chapter are not required to meet the aforementioned requirement unless a manufactured home park has not had its license renewed for a period of two years. At that time, the Director of Community Development shall require the manufactured home park to be 100 feet or more from an existing residential area, church, or retail business.
(2) All manufactured homes shall be located at least 25 feet from any property boundary line abutting upon a public street or highway and at least five feet from an interior property boundary line.
(3) All manufactured home parks shall be screened with a vegetation barrier that will grow to a minimum six feet high along the rear and side property boundary lines surrounding the entire park. One front and rear entrance to the park shall be the only allowed openings in the fence. The fence shall be built in accordance with this code and shall be inspected for proper maintenance by the Building Official during the annual inspection of the park.
(J) Park street system.
(1) Street construction and design standards. Street construction and design with a manufactured home park, whether the street system is intended to be public or private, shall conform to the minimum standards for improvement of streets and roads found in those sections pertaining to public and or private streets in Chapter 154.
(2) Required illumination of park street systems. All manufactured home parks shall be furnished with lighting units so spaced and equipped with luminaries placed at the mounting heights as will provide the following average maintained levels of illumination for the safe movement of pedestrians and vehicles at night.
(a) All parts of the park street system shall have a minimum of 175 watts of mercury or sodium vapor illumination every 200 feet.
(b) Potentially hazardous locations, such as major street intersections and steps or stepped ramps, shall be individually illuminated.
(K) Required off-street parking areas.
(1) Off-street parking areas shall be provided in all manufactured home parks for the use of park occupants and guests. The areas shall be furnished at the rate of not less than two spaces for each manufactured home space, each parking space to be accessible without moving another car. Each space shall be at least nine feet width by 26 feet long.
(2) Required car parking spaces shall be so located as to provide convenient access to the manufactured home, but shall not exceed a distance of 200 feet from the manufactured home that it is intended to serve.
(L) Manufactured home and recreational vehicle spaces.
(1) Each manufactured home or recreation vehicle space shall be improved to provide an adequate poured concrete foundation that conforms to the Administrative Rules of the State Department of Community Affairs, Tex. Administrative Code, Title 10, Ch. 80, which had an effective date of 1-10-2006, a copy of which is attached to the ordinance codified herein as Appendix C.
(2) The manufactured home space shall not lean, shift, or settle unevenly under the weight of the manufactured home due to inadequate drainage, vibration, or other forces acting on the superstructure.
(M) Grandfather clause. Except as provided herein, manufactured home parks permitted by the city and in compliance with city ordinances at the date of this chapter are exempted and "grandfathered" from the requirements of this section. However, in the event a "grandfathered" park is ever in violation of a city ordinance, or fails to conform to all regulations otherwise stated herein, then, before a new permit is issued, the "grandfathered" park must come into compliance with this section.
(Ord. 06-0321, passed 3-21-2006) Penalty, see § 151.99