Requirements
(a) General requirements. General requirements for manufactured home courts shall be as follows:
(1) Manufactured home courts shall be located only in those districts as allowed in section 19-98.
(2) No manufactured home shall be located and no manufactured home court shall be established or operated until all permits and fees as required by this chapter and other ordinances and requirements of the city have been complied with.
(3) Any individual manufactured home hereafter located and used for living purposes in the city shall be located in a manufactured home court. Storage of a single camping or travel manufactured home by a resident owner thereof may be allowed on a premises, provided that such storage shall be restricted to the rear yard of such premises.
(4) Any manufactured home used for living purposes failing to meet the requirements of chapter 4, article III for housing and the minimum residential floor area requirements of this chapter shall not be allowed to remain in the city for more than ten days.
(b) Specific requirements. Specific requirements for manufactured home courts shall be as follows:
(1) Any applicant for a special use permit for a manufactured home court shall present detailed plans and specifications acceptable to the zoning officer and suitable for making determinations as required in this section as well as sections 19-5, 19-6, 19-36 through 19-41, 19-56, 19-57, 19-71 through 19-77, 19-173 through 19-175, 19-216 through 19-218, 19-231, 19-245 through 19-250, 19-261, 19-361 through 19-370 and 19-386 through 19-392.
(2) The plans and specifications of the proposed court shall show its area, boundaries, locations of driveways, interior streets, sites for manufactured homes, automobile parking, locations and kinds of all sanitary conveniences, methods of sewage and garbage disposal and plans for water supply and lighting.
(3) Prior to the granting of an occupancy permit by the zoning officer, the state department of health shall inspect the manufactured home court and notify the zoning officer in writing if such premises comply with the regulations of the state department of health concerning the operation of such premises. Upon receiving such notice, the zoning officer may issue an occupancy permit to the applicant, provided that the applicant has satisfied all other requirements as contained in this division.
(4) The manufactured home court shall be under the direct supervision of the holder of the permit who shall be responsible for its proper management. The holder of the permit shall require all persons residing in the court to register in a book kept for that purpose giving their name, age, place of permanent residence, marital status and the license number of their motor vehicle and manufactured home. Such registration book shall be available at all times to the police for inspection.
(5) Each manufactured home court shall meet the following requirements as to improvements:
a. Each manufactured home lot site shall be provided with suitable connections to:
1. A potable water supply system;
2. A sewage disposal system;
3. An electrical distribution system.
b. Whenever possible, these facilities shall be connected to the appropriate municipal facilities subject to the approval of the city engineer.
c. Parking for residents and visitors shall be provided as required in section 19-276 et seq., except that the required parking spaces shall be located within 50 feet of the manufactured home lot site, notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter.
d. Interior streets, parking spaces and walkways shall be provided with a paved and durable surface. The paved widths shall be at least 20 feet for the interior streets and two feet for walkways.
e. Suitable communal recreation areas shall be provided in the court.
f. Where any manufactured home court adjoins or abuts a residential district or a lot or premises used for residential, educational, recreational or religious purposes, there shall be provided a wall or fence of solid appearance or tight evergreen hedge of not less than five and a half; feet maintained in a neat and attractive manner between the manufactured home court and the residential district or residential, educational, recreational or religious premises, subject to the approval of the zoning officer, provided that when the provisions of this division are impossible or impractical of performance, they may be waived by the zoning officer at his discretion.
(6) Each manufactured home court shall meet the following area requirements:
a. The site shall contain at least five acres and shall have no more than a maximum residential density of 15 manufactured home lot sites per gross acre.
b. Trailer lot sites shall have a width of at least 30 feet and of not less than 1,500 square feet, provided that manufactured home courts in existence on the effective date of the ordinance from which this chapter was derived which provide manufactured home lot sites having a width or area less than that prescribed in this subsection may continue to operate with sites of the existing width and area.
c. Trailers shall be so harbored on each site that there shall be at least a 20-foot clearance between manufactured homes, provided that with respect to manufactured homes parked end to end, the end-to-end clearance shall not be less than 15 feet.
d. Trailers shall not be located closer than 20 feet from any building in the court or from any property line bounding the court.
e. Individual manufactured homes shall conform to the requirements of subsection 19-306(2).
f. Adequate drainage and access for a manufactured home hauler shall be provided for each manufactured home lot site.
g. Use of pilings in areas subject to flooding according to section 19-306 shall conform with floodproofing requirements as provided in section 19-1.
(7) No person shall operate a manufactured home court without first obtaining a license therefor from the city council as follows:
a. Prior to the granting of an occupancy permit by the zoning officer, all applicants shall be required to file a petition for the issuance of a license with the city council.
b. No license shall be issued until a public hearing on such issuance shall be held by the city council. Notice of such hearing shall be mailed postage prepaid by the city clerk not less than ten days prior to the date of such hearing to all property owners in or within 200 feet, of the perimeter of the subject property, whether within the city or an adjacent city or town. Additional notice of such public hearing specifying the time and place shall be given by publication of such information in a newspaper of local circulation within the city at least once each week for three successive weeks prior to the date of the hearing.
c. At the hearing an opportunity shall be given all persons interested to be heard upon the matter of such license.
d. After such hearing as provided in this section, the city council deems such license to be in the interest of the welfare of the city.
e. Every such petition to the city council shall be accompanied by ten copies of a map, accurately drawn, showing the actual shape, dimensions and area of the lot or premises in question and of abutting property in or within 200 feet of the subject property, and such other information as may be necessary.
f. Every such petition for city council action shall set forth the names and addresses of all property owners in or within 200 feet from the perimeter of the land in question, whether within the city or an adjacent city or town where applicable, as of 30 days prior to the date and time of filing. Such names and addresses shall be used by the city clerk to give notice by mail, as required in this division, to abutting property owners.
g. Every petition so filed shall be accompanied by a filing fee of $50.00, payable to the city.
(Rev. Ords. 1987, § 19-321; Ch. 944, § I(Att.), 9-2-25)