§ 17.88.090. Mobile home parks.

The following supplementary and additional standards shall apply to mobile home parks:

A.

The mobile home park shall be in one ownership and shall remain in one ownership. The park shall contain not less than four acres of land;

B.

The mobile homes may be clustered and the individual lot sizes may be reduced below the requirements for single family dwellings in the zone in which the development is located, provided that the total number of mobile home units does not exceed eight units multiplied by the number of acres in the development. The remaining land not contained in individual lots, roads, or parking shall be set aside and developed as parks, playgrounds, and service areas for the common use and enjoyment of the occupants;

C.

No less than ten percent of the gross area of the mobile home park shall be set aside as open space for use by the occupants. The open space shall be situated as near to the central part of the park as good design indicates. The land covered by vehicular roadways, sidewalk, and off-street parking and landscaped areas surrounding trailer spaces, which are pertinent to each trailer space, and areas devoted to service facilities shall not be construed as being part of the area required for open space;

D.

No mobile home shall be located closer than 15 feet to the nearest portion of any other mobile home, except that metal carports having three or more open sides may be located within ten feet to another mobile home or add-on;

E.

All mobile homes and add-ons shall be set back at least eight feet from all roadways within the mobile home park and at least 25 feet from public streets;

F.

All off-street parking space and driveways shall be hard surfaced;

G.

A strip of land at least eight feet wide surrounding the mobile home park shall be left unoccupied by mobile homes and shall be landscaped and otherwise designed to afford privacy to the development;

H.

All mobile homes shall be skirted in compliance with section 17.40.040. All storage and solid waste receptacles outside of the confines of a mobile home must be housed in a closed structure. All skirting service buildings, patios, garages, carports, and other add-ons must also be compatible in design and construction with the mobile home and with the service buildings as approved by the planning and zoning administrator;

I.

All mobile home spaces shall be occupied only after a written lease has been negotiated with the lessee which shall be made available to the officials of the city upon demand;

J.

Roadways shall be of adequate width to accommodate anticipated traffic as follows:

1.

For two-way traffic with no parking—24 feet in width;

2.

For entrance streets and collector streets within the development—minimum of 36 feet in width. All streets shall be bordered by curbs, and the streets shall be hard-surfaced.

K.

There shall be no more than two entrances from the mobile home park into any one street, which entrances shall be no closer than 75 feet from each other, nor closer than 70 feet from the corner of an intersection;

L.

Access shall be provided to each mobile home stand by means of an access way reserved for maneuvering mobile homes into position and shall be kept free from trees and other immovable obstructions. Paving the access way shall not be permitted. Use of planks, steel mats, or other means during placement of a mobile home shall be allowed so long as the same are removed immediately after placement of the mobile home;

M.

Off-street parking shall be provided at the rate of two parking spaces per mobile home space contained within the mobile home park. In no case shall the parking space be located greater than 100 feet away from the mobile home space it is designed to serve, except that one-fourth of the required parking spaces may be located not more than 300 feet away from the mobile home spaces it is designed to serve;

N.

Mobile home parks containing not less than 50 mobile homes may include a launderette for convenience of the occupants of the park but not for the general public;

O.

The yard which must be provided between a public street and the nearest mobile home shall be landscaped, except for permitted driveways, in a manner which is similar to conventional dwellings;

P.

Yard Lighting. A minimum of two-tenths footcandles of light shall be required for protective yard lighting the full length of all driveways and walkways;

Q.

An area of at least 100 square feet for each mobile home space contained within the park shall be provided for the storage of boats, trailers, campers, etc. Said storage space shall be enclosed with a sight-obscuring fence of not less than six nor more than eight feet in height;

R.

In addition to meeting the above requirements, all mobile home parks shall also conform to requirements of the plumbing code of the city, and to the regulations of the state health department;

S.

Property development standards in excess of the minimum standards herein specified may be imposed where it is determined by the city council that such increased standards are necessary in order to insure that the development will mesh harmoniously with adjoining or nearby uses of property and are necessary to accomplish the intent of mobile home parks. In the event that a developer does not desire to comply with the requirements of this chapter in obtaining approval of his development, he may develop his land in accordance with the requirements of the surrounding zone in which the development is located.

(Prior code § 17.84.090; Ord. NS116, 1985)