[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.010]
Every park to be constructed under the provisions of this title
shall provide for the following, in the manner specified:
(A)
No park shall be so located that the drainage of the park area will
endanger any water supply. All such parks shall be well drained and
shall be located in areas free from ponds, swamps and similar places
in which mosquitoes may breed. No waste water from trailer coaches
shall be deposited on the surface of the ground except state approved
systems may be used.
(B)
All land proposed for mobile home parks shall be adequately protected
against flooding.
(C)
Not subject to any hazard or nuisance such as excessive noises, vibration,
smoke, toxic matter, radiation, heat or glare.
(D)
Not subject to any source of pollution such as drainage from garbage
disposal areas.
(E)
Not subject to any adverse influence from adjoining streets and areas.
(F)
The tract of land involved shall be an area of not less than 10 acres.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.020]
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.030]
(A)
Exposed ground surfaces in all parts of every park shall be paved
or covered with stone screenings, or other solid material, or protected
with a grass or sod growth that is capable of preventing soil erosion
and the emanation of dust during dry weather.
(B)
Where the topography has a slope of 25% or more, a rip wall cribbing
or other approved system of soil and slope stabilization shall be
installed and maintained.
[1960 Code, Secs. 14.16.040, 14.16.050]
(A)
Nuisances In Parks: All parks shall be maintained free of nuisances
such as excessive heat, glare, vibration, smoke, toxic matter, radiation
and fire or explosive hazards.
(B)
Physical Hazards In Parks:
1.
Adequate protective barriers shall be provided and maintained where
there is a slope in excess of 45° and a change in elevation of
six feet. Such barriers may include, but are not limited to, continuous
shrubs or fences.
2.
Swimming pools shall be screened, fenced or secured when not in active
use to prevent injury. Fencing or other artificial enclosures shall
completely enclose the pool area.
3.
Swimming pools shall be constructed and maintained in accordance
with the requirements of the state department of public health.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.060]
No part of any park shall be used for nonresidential purposes
except such uses that are required for direct servicing and well being
of park residents, and for the management and maintenance of the park.
It may be used for sales office and display area.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.070]
(A)
Mobile homes shall be separated from each other and from other buildings
and structures by at least 20 feet. Every mobile home lot shall contain
a minimum of 5,000 square feet.
(B)
An accessory structure which has a horizontal area exceeding 25 square
feet attached to a mobile home has an opaque top or roof that is higher
than adjacent windowsills of such mobile home and shall, for purposes
of this separation requirement, be considered to be part of the mobile
home. Roofed over patios, carports and individual storage facilities
shall be included as part of the mobile home in determining yard widths
between mobile homes. An accessory structure shall not be permitted
closer than 10 feet to any property line of any mobile home lot.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.080]
(A)
All mobile homes shall be located as follows from any park boundary
line abutting upon a public street or highway:
(B)
All mobile home sites shall provide a front yard of not less than
15 feet measured from the edge of the pavement. No off street parking
shall be permitted in the front yard.
(C)
Street trees shall be encouraged to be planted within five feet of
the pavement. The following trees are acceptable to the City for such
planting: red or pin oak, hard maple, thornless honey locust, ironwood,
columnar maple or hackberry, American ash, European American beech,
little leaf linden, Washington thorn, downy hawthorn, tulip, sugar
maple, sweet gum, ginkgo, Norway crimson maple.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.090]
In all parks accommodating or designed to accommodate 10 or
more mobile homes, there may be one or more recreation areas which
shall be easily accessible to all park residents. No outdoor recreation
area should contain less than one acre. Recreation areas shall be
so located as to be free of traffic hazards and should, where topography
permits, be centrally located.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.100]
(A)
General Requirements: All parks shall provide safe, continuous and
convenient vehicular access from abutting public streets or roads
to each mobile home space. For purposes of this title, all streets
shall hereinafter be referred to as "park street system" and shall
be maintained by the owner/owners, or dedicated to the City.
(B)
Primary, Entrance Road: The primary entrance road connecting the
park street system with a public street or road shall have a minimum
road pavement width of 36 feet, where guest parking is permitted at
both sides, or a minimum road pavement width of 30 feet, where parking
is limited to one side. Where the primary entrance road is more than
100 feet long and does not provide access to abutting property within
such distance, the minimum road width may be 25 feet, provided parking
is prohibited at both sides.
(C)
Secondary Entrance Road: In addition to the required primary entrance
road, all parks containing 25 or more acres in total area and/or provide
for the accommodation of 200 or more mobile homes, shall have at least
one secondary entrance road connecting the park street system with
a public street or road. Such a secondary road or roads shall have
a minimum pavement width of 25 feet. Where primary and secondary entrance
roads connect to the same public street or road, there shall be a
minimum separation of 150 feet between such access points. Where this
is not feasible or possible, clearly marked, one-way entrance and
exit lanes with at least a fifteen-foot wide median strip are acceptable,
provided the pavement width of each one-way road is at least 25 feet
wide.
(D)
Interior Streets: All interior streets in the park street system
shall have a minimum pavement width of 25 feet on a twenty-seven-foot
right of way, with parking prohibited on both sides. Dead end streets
shall be limited in length to 500 feet and shall be provided at the
closed end with a turnaround having an outside roadway diameter of
at least 120 feet. One-way minor streets shall be acceptable only
if less than 500 feet long and serving less than 25 mobile homes.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.110]
(A)
Pavement Materials: All streets shall be provided with A-3 surface
over six inches crushed stone base for owner maintenance.
(B)
Pavement Design: Primary and secondary entrance roads, as well as
all interior streets shall have a standard cross section with rolled
curbs and gutters. Paving on interior streets may have an alley cross
section if it is narrower than 25 feet.
(C)
Grades: Grades of all streets shall be sufficient to ensure adequate
surface drainage, but shall not be more than 8% nor less than 0.5%.
Short runs with a maximum grade of 12% may be permitted; provided
traffic safety is assured by appropriate paving, adequate leveling
areas, and avoidance of lateral curves.
(D)
Intersections: Within 100 feet of an intersection, streets shall
be at approximately right angles. A distance of at least 150 feet
shall be maintained between centerlines of offset intersection streets.
Intersections of more than two streets at one point shall be avoided.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.120]
Off street parking shall be provided in all parks for the use
of park occupants and guests. Such areas shall be furnished at the
rate of at least two car spaces for each mobile home. Parking bays
shall be so located as to provide convenient access to mobile home
spaces. A minimum of one hard surface, off street parking space per
mobile home shall be provided on each mobile home site.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.130]
(A)
General Recommendations: All parks shall provide safe, convenient
four inch Portland cement concrete pedestrian access between individual
mobile homes (said thickness shall be increased to five inches at
driveways), the park street system and all community facilities provided
for park residents. For the purposes of this title, all common walks
providing such pedestrian access shall hereinafter be referred to
as the "common walk system".
(B)
Individual Walks: All mobile homes shall be connected with the common
walk system and the park street system by one or more individual walks
on each mobile home space. Such individual walks shall have a minimum
width of two feet.
(C)
Common Walk System: A common walk system, four feet four inches wide
shall be provided in every park for pedestrian access between each
mobile home space and all required open areas, community structures
and facilities.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.140]
All parks shall be furnished with sufficient electrical systems
and lighting units including gas lights at the owner's expense,
so spaced and equipped with luminaires placed at such mounting heights
as will provide the following average maintained levels of illumination
for the safe movement of pedestrians and vehicles at night:
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.16.150]
Any mobile home park which existed on January 18, 1971, shall
be regarded as a nonconforming use and may be continued, except that
any change in layout, expansion or extension shall be subject to all
provisions of this title and the state board of health and county
or local board of health regulations.
[1960 Code, Secs. 14.20.010, 14.20.020, 14.20.030, 14.20.040,
14.20.050, 14.20.060]
(A)
Required: Every park shall have a water supply system capable of
providing a sufficient supply of potable water under adequate pressure
to water supply facilities for mobile homes, service buildings, fire
hydrants, drinking fountains and other accessory facilities, as required
by this Code for the well being of park residents, and for park maintenance.
Such system shall be designed, constructed and maintained in accordance
with the state standards of Illinois department of health and/or standards
currently enforced by local departments.
(B)
Source Of Supply:
1.
Where a public water supply system is available, the park water supply
system shall be connected thereto. A public water supply system shall
be deemed available when such system is within 500 feet of the park
measured along a street or other public easement, and a connection
may be made lawfully thereto. No private water supply system shall
be cross connected with any public water supply system.
2.
Where a public water supply source is available, the park's
source of water supply including the construction, equipment and distribution
system for withdrawing and/or processing and distributing water shall
be approved by the board of health and other authorities having jurisdiction.
The chemical and bacteriological quality of the potable water distributed
in any park including water treatment processes employed shall conform
to the standards established by the health authority having jurisdiction.
3.
The water sources shall be capable of producing an adequate volume
of water to supply all mobile home spaces in any park, but in no case
shall such capacity be less than 150 gallons per space per day in
any mobile home park.
4.
Where an independent or nonpublic water system is used to serve the
mobile home park with water obtained from wells, the well shall be
located and constructed in such a manner that neither underground
nor surface contamination will reach the water supply from any source.
A minimum distance of 100 feet shall be maintained between the water
supply and any sewage treatment facility. A minimum distance of 100
feet shall be maintained between the water supply and any other possible
source of contamination, except that sewers or pipes through which
sewage may back up shall be located at least 50 feet from any well
or water suction pipeline.
5.
No well casings, pumps, pumping machinery or suction pipes shall
be located in any pit, room or space extending below ground level,
nor in any room or space aboveground which is walled in or otherwise
enclosed, unless such rooms, whether above or belowground, have free
drainage by gravity to the surface of the ground. The floor or rooms
aboveground shall be at least six inches above the ground's surface.
All floors shall be watertight and sloped from well casing to the
drain. Said well casing shall be not less than 12 inches from the
floor.
(C)
Water Storage Facilities: All water storage reservoirs shall be watertight
and constructed of impervious material; all overflows and vents of
such reservoirs shall be effectively screened. Open reservoirs are
prohibited. Manholes shall be constructed with overlapping covers
so as to prevent the entrance of contaminated material, and so designed
that they may be locked. All of the overflow pipes from a reservoir
shall be connected with back siphonage protection to any pipe in which
polluted water may back up.
(D)
Water Distribution System:
1.
The water distribution system shall be constructed of piping, fixtures
and other equipment of approved materials and shall be so designed
and maintained to provide a pressure of not less than 20 pounds per
square inch, under normal operating conditions, at each mobile home,
service building and other locations requiring potable water supply.
Such piping shall not be interconnected or cross connected with any
drainage, venting or other system conveying nonpotable water. Nor
shall such piping be subject to hazards of backflow or any back siphonage.
2.
The public water supply shall extend only to the mobile home park.
Single mobile home lots will not be metered.
(E)
Individual Water Connections:
1.
Individual water service connections shall be provided at each mobile
home lot in the mobile home park. All water service connections shall
be watertight and located at a minimum distance of 10 feet from sanitary
sewer connections belowground. The minimum pipe size of connections
shall be 3/4 inch. Outlets shall be so constructed as to be free of
possible contamination from surface drainage and possible damage during
installation of a mobile home, and shall be four inches above grade.
2.
Adequate provisions shall be made to prevent freezing of service
lines, valves and riser pipe, and to protect risers from heaving and
thawing actions of ground during freezing weather.
3.
Underground stop and wastecocks shall not be installed on any connection.
(F)
Water Supply For Fire Protection: Where a public water supply system
with a water main of four inches or larger is available, all parks
accommodating or designed to accommodate 10 or more mobile homes,
or both, shall provide the following water supply facilities:
1.
The system shall permit the operation of a minimum of two 1/2 inch
hose streams on a fire in any mobile home, service building, or other
accessory structure in any park.
2.
Hydrants shall be located within 600 feet of such structures and
shall be of a type prescribed by the City.
3.
Water supply and associated facilities shall be sufficient to provide
a delivery of at least 75 gallons per minute at each of the two nozzles
held four feet above the ground, at a flowing pressure of at least
30 pounds per square inch when measured at the highest elevation in
the park.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.24.010]
All sewage and other water carried waste shall be disposed of
into a common sewage system. All provided sewage systems shall be
constructed in conformity with all laws of the state of Illinois,
regulation of any department, division or board of the state of Illinois,
and any provisions of this Code, relative thereto.
Each trailer or mobile home site shall be provided with a sewer
connection for the combined liquid waste outlet or outlets of each
trailer coach. It shall be the duty of the owner or operator of the
trailer coach park to provide an approved type of water and door tight
connection from the trailer water drainage to the sewer connection,
and it shall be the duty of the owner or operator to make such connection
and keep all occupied trailer coaches connected to the sewer while
located in a trailer coach park. Sewer connections in unoccupied trailer
coach sites shall be so closed that they will emit no odors or cause
a breeding place for flies. No water or waste shall be allowed to
fall on the ground from a trailer coach.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.28.010]
Every park shall contain an electrical wiring system consisting
of approved wiring, fixtures, equipment and appurtenances to be installed
and maintained in accordance with applicable codes and regulations
governing such systems. All parts of the park electrical distribution
system shall conform with approved standards for safety to life and
property and with accepted engineering practices. All electric wires
shall be underground.
[1960 Code, Sec. 14.32.010, 14.32.020]
(A)
Natural Gas System: Natural gas piping systems in all parks shall
be installed and maintained in conformity with accepted engineering
practices and the rules and regulations of the authority having jurisdiction.
(B)
Fuel Oil Supply System: All fuel oil supply systems provided for
mobile homes, service buildings and other structures shall be installed
and maintained in conformity with the rules and regulations of the
authority having jurisdiction. Fuel oil systems underground shall
be located at a minimum of 10 feet horizontally from water lines,
and at necessary crossings shall be placed in substantial pipe sleeves
extending 10 feet from each side of the water pipe.
[1960 Code, Secs. 14.36.010, 14.36.020, 14.36.030]
(A)
General Requirements: The mobile home park area shall be subject
to the rules and regulations of the fire protection district in which
it is located.
(B)
Location Of Fire Hydrants: Where a public water system with a water
main of six inches or larger is available to the mobile home park,
standard fire hydrants shall be located within 600 feet of each mobile
home or building.
(C)
Fire Extinguishers: Fire extinguishers shall be encouraged to be
included in each mobile home unit.
