[Added effective 5-1-1951]
The purpose of this regulation is to prevent a close arrangement
or construction of buildings upon the streets, to secure safety from
fire and other dangers, to avoid undue concentration of population,
and to provide health, comfort and general welfare in living conditions.
As used in this regulation, the following words shall have the
following respective meanings:
Any vehicle which is used as sleeping or living quarters
which is or may be mounted on wheels, and is or may be propelled either
by its own power or by another power-driven vehicle to which it may
be attached.
Any person, firm or corporation receiving a permit to conduct
or maintain a trailer park.
A lot or parcel of land which is used or permitted to be
used for the parking of an occupied trailer coach or coaches.
No person, firm or corporation shall establish, maintain, conduct
or operate any trailer park within an area that is zoned for and limited
to residence uses within the City of Norwalk.
[Amended effective 12-11-1981; effective 1-25-2013]
Trailer parks may be located on land that is zoned for Business
Zones No. 1, No. 2, and industrial zones within the limits of the
city, provided that a certificate of zoning compliance is obtained
from the Zoning Inspector. Said certificate of zoning compliance will
only be issued after the Department of Health has certified to the
Zoning Inspector compliance with the health provisions hereof and
on compliance with the other regulations herein contained. The applicant
shall file with his application proof of ownership of the premises
or of a lease or written permission from the owner thereof, together
with a complete plan, drawn to scale, showing the proposed park, the
location of the trailer lots, and such other details as are hereinafter
more fully described.
A.
Application for a certificate of zoning compliance shall be made
to the Zoning Inspector on a blank form furnished for this purpose
by said Zoning Inspector.
B.
The permittee shall pay to the Zoning Inspector the following amount
of money for a certificate of zoning compliance to operate a trailer
park:
(1)
If the area in which such trailer or trailer park business is
to be operated is 2,000 square feet or less: $10.
(2)
If the area in which such trailer park or trailer park business
is to be operated is in excess of two thousand (2,000) square feet,
and not more than ten thousand (10,000) square feet: twenty-five dollars
($25.).
(3)
For each additional five thousand (5,000) square feet, or part
thereof, on which such business is to be operated: five dollars ($5.).
(4)
No trailer park or trailer park business may be occupied until
such time as a certificate of zoning compliance has been issued.
C.
Posting of permit. The permit which shall be issued pursuant to the
provisions of this regulation shall at all times be posted in a conspicuous
place on the premises at which any trailer park is operated.
D.
Limitations. No trailer or trailer park shall be permitted in any
residence, business or industrial zone if in any part of the premises
intended for such use as part of such park is within two hundred (200)
feet of any residence, church, school or public library.
For the purpose of these regulations, a trailer lot shall be
deemed to be that section of ground in a trailer park used or designed
for use as a location for a single automobile and trailer or a single
house car.
A.
Parking space. No trailer at any park shall be:
(1)
Parked within thirty (30) feet of any public highway.
(2)
Parked on any lot less than thirty (30) feet wide and fifty
(50) feet deep or of not less than one thousand five hundred (1,500)
square feet in area.
[Amended effective 6-11-1956]
(3)
Parked within fifteen (15) feet of any other trailer.
[Amended effective 1-25-2013]
(4)
Parked within six (6) feet of any property line bounding the
park.
[Amended effective 1-25-2013]
(5)
Accessory structures.
[Added effective 1-25-2013]
(a)
Decks, sheds and similar structures may be erected, constructed and
maintained on a trailer lot only as an accessory structure to a trailer
located on the same space. Decks shall be at least seven (7) feet
from any adjacent trailer on a separate lot. Sheds shall be at least
five (5) feet from any adjacent trailer on a separate lot.
B.
Roadways. All trailer lots shall be grouped in blocks, abutting roads
or driveways of not less than twenty-five (25) feet in width, giving
easy access to and from such lots. Such roadways or driveways shall
be properly maintained by permittees so as to prevent ruts, depressions
and flying dust. Such roadways or driveways shall be lighted at night
with twenty-five-watt lamps at intervals of one hundred (100) feet,
located approximately fifteen (15) feet above the ground.
C.
Electric service. An electric outlet supply of at least one hundred
ten (110) volts shall be provided for each trailer park.
D.
Adequate supply of clean water from a source approved by the Department
of Health shall be obtained at each individual lot from faucets only.
Drinking utensils are hereby prohibited at said faucets. Any hose
used for distributing water shall, when not in use, be stored in a
manner to protect it against contamination and at all times be maintained
in a sanitary condition.
E.
Water closets, lavatories, bathtubs or showers and slop sinks. Every
trailer park shall have separate and adequately lighted and ventilated
toilet rooms for each sex within a distance of not more than two hundred
(200) feet of any part of said park with the following minimum sanitary
facilities, supplied with running water, provided for each: Water
closets shall be provided in the ratio of at least one (1) water closet
for every fifteen (15) females or fraction thereof and at least one
(1) water closet for every twenty-five (25) males or fraction thereof;
in addition, one (1) urinal for each male toilet so provided. Said
water closets shall be distinctly marked "Men" and "Women," and the
location of the water closets plainly indicated by signs. Such water
closet accommodation shall be based on the total park capacity according
to the accepted plans and specifications submitted to the Department
of Health with the application, and shall be computed on the basis
of a minimum of three (3) persons to each trailer. For the purpose
of this computation, the sexes shall be considered as being equal
in number. There shall be provided in every toilet room, or within
ten (10) feet of the entrance thereof, proper facilities for washing
hands in the ratio of at least one (1) lavatory or sink for every
two (2) or less water closets and urinals. Separate facilities shall
be provided for each sex. No drinking-water faucets or outlets shall
be placed in any toilet room or water closet compartment. One (1)
shower shall be provided for every six (6) trailer lots or fraction
thereof up to fifty (50) and one (1) shower for each twelve (12) trailer
lots over fifty (50). Toilets and washrooms shall have an adequate
supply of hot and cold water, and shall be maintained in a clean and
sanitary condition by the permittee. Whenever required by the Department
of Health, footbaths shall be installed in each male and female shower
room, and the permittee shall provide for the maintenance of solutions
of water and chlorine having an available content of at least one-half
of one percent (1/2 of 1%) in such footbaths. Where footbaths are
not required, the floor of shower rooms shall be washed down at least
twice a day with a chlorine solution of the above-mentioned strength.
(1)
Trailer parks that are to be occupied by an automobile trailer
or trailer coach that is independently equipped with flush-type toilets,
showers or bathtubs, lavatories and slop sinks which are attached
directly to an adequate supply of clean water and are attached to
the city sewer system or to an adequate private disposal system of
a type to be approved by the Department of Health of the City of Norwalk
will not be required to comply with the provisions of this subsection
of said trailer park regulations, but in no case shall any trailer
park held under a single ownership having more than ten (10) trailer
lots thereon be established or expanded with fewer than four (4) toilets
and two (2) lavatories for each sex.
[Amended effective 4-30-1956; effective 6-11-1956]
F.
Construction. The floors of all water closets or compartments containing
bathing facilities shall be constructed and maintained in a waterproof
condition by using cement, concrete, tile or other type of waterproofing
material.
G.
Disposal of waste. All excreta and liquid waste from chemical toilets
shall be collected in proper receptacles and emptied into suitable
sewer or cesspool connected fixtures equipped for flushing and located
at or in toilet buildings, completely partitioned for privacy, ventilated
and equipped with facility for rinsing containers. Connections to
sewers, or sewage disposal systems, shall be trapped to prevent dissemination
of odors. Closed seepage pits shall be installed at or near each trailer
into which all sink and wash water shall be drained, and the minimum
size of which shall be three (3) feet in diameter and four (4) feet
deep; provided that trailers connected to an approved sewerage system
need not be connected to such pits. Spillage or drainage of waste
upon the superficial area of any trailer park is hereby prohibited.
The permittee, or employees under his control, shall furnish such
services as may be necessary to maintain sanitary conditions at all
times. The sewage disposal system shall be installed in accordance
with plans approved by the Department of Health and shall be altered
or extended or the operation modified whenever required by the Department
of Health.
H.
Garbage and rubbish. Metal containers with tight-fitting covers,
appropriately labeled, shall be provided by the permittees for garbage
and rubbish. Where mixed collection is practiced, such containers
shall be in the proportion of at least one (1) for every two (2) trailers
or fractional part thereof. Where separate collection of garbage and
rubbish is practiced, there shall be provided at least one (1) garbage
container for every four (4) trailers or fractional part thereof and
at least one (1) rubbish container for every two (2) trailers or fractional
part thereof. All containers for garbage and rubbish shall be emptied
every two (2) days and refuse removed from the premises and disposed
of in a sanitary manner approved by the Department of Health.
I.
Grading and drainage. All trailer lots and abutting roads or driveways
shall be kept free from heavy or dense growth of brush or weeds and
from any poisonous or obnoxious weeds, and so graded as to insure
rapid drainage.
J.
Toilets in trailers. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or
permit to be used or operated any toilet installed or maintained in
any trailer, except a flue-type chemical or toilet of other type approved
by the Health Department, while said trailer is located or parked
within the confines of any trailer park.
K.
Fire protection. Every trailer park shall be equipped at all times
with at least one (1) fire extinguisher in good working order for
every ten (10) or less trailer lots, located not farther than two
hundred (200) feet from each trailer lot. No open fires shall be permitted
at any place which would endanger life or property. No fires shall
be left unattended at any time.
L.
Flood protection. All development under these regulations shall be subject to the provisions of Article 110, Flood Hazard Zone.
[Added effective 4-24-1978]
M.
Evacuation plan. Mobile home (trailer) parks and mobile home (trailer)
subdivisions which are located in Flood Hazard Zones shall file an
evacuation plan indicating alternate vehicular access and escape routes
with appropriate disaster preparedness authorities for mobile home
parks and mobile home subdivisions and shall certify to the Zoning
Inspector that such a plan has been approved.
[Added effective 4-24-1978]
A.
Registration of guests. It shall be the duty of the permittee to
keep upon the premises a book register upon which the owner or person
in control of the automobile and trailer, or house car, upon arrival
shall register his or her name and address and all persons using same,
the date of arrival, the state license plate number of the automobile
and trailer, or if a house car, the state license number thereon,
together with the name of the state issuing such license. The permittee
at each trailer park shall each day be responsible for entering the
departure of trailers and guests in the book register and for keeping
such register in a legible form so as to indicate at all times the
trailer count and population at the park to the satisfaction of the
Police and Health Departments. Said register shall be available at
all times for inspection by representatives of the Police and Health
Departments.
B.
Limitation of trailers and population. No person, firm or corporation
permitted to operate a trailer park shall allow the parking of trailers
to an excess of the number specified in the application and permit
under which the trailer park is operated. The permittee shall not
admit trailers to trailer parks or permit the parking of trailers
if the population per trailer exceeds four (4) persons, unless written
approval of the Department of Health has been secured.
C.
Taxation. Each person licensed to operate a trailer park shall, between
the first and 15th day of October of each year, file with the Assessors
of the City of Norwalk a statement under oath giving the license number
of each trailer and each motor vehicle parked and registered at said
trailer park on the first day of October of that year.
D.
Posting of regulation. Each permittee operating a trailer park shall
cause a legible copy of this regulation to be posted and kept posted
at all times in a conspicuous place at such trailer park.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 118-1360, Violations
and penalties, as amended, was repealed effective 7-30-1982.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 118-1370, Validity
of regulations, was repealed effective 7-30-1982.
