Mobile home parks may be located in any district as prescribed
and approved by the manufactured housing park board.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.25)
Each manufactured housing park shall be located on a well drained
site, properly graded to ensure rapid drainage and freedom from standing
pools of water.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.26)
Mobile home spaces in each manufactured housing park shall be
provided consisting of a minimum of 1,800 square feet for each space
which shall be at least 30 feet wide and clearly defined. However,
those manufactured housing parks in existence on the effective date
of this article (i.e., August 13, 1973), which provide manufactured
housing spaces having a width or area less than that herein prescribed,
may continue to operate with spaces of the existing width and area,
but in no event shall any manufactured housing space be less than
25 feet wide and have an area of less than 1,250 square feet.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.27)
Mobile homes shall be so harbored on each space within a manufactured
housing park that there shall be at least 15 feet of clearance between
manufactured housings. No manufactured housing shall be located closer
than 15 feet from any building within the park or from any property
line boundary bounding the park.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.28)
Off-street parking facilities in the ratio of one and one-half
spaces for each manufactured housing space shall be provided in a
manufactured housing park.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.29)
All manufactured housing spaces within a manufactured housing
park shall abut upon a driveway of not less than 20 feet in width,
which shall have unobstructed access to a public street, alley or
highway.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.30)
(a) Walkways
not less than two feet wide shall be provided from the manufactured
housing spaces to the service buildings within each manufactured housing
park.
(b) All
walkways shall be in compliance with ADA regulations.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.31; Ordinance adopting Code)
All driveways and walkways within each manufactured housing
park shall be provided with an all-weather surface and lighted at
night with electric lamps of not less than 25 watts each, spaced at
intervals of not more than 100 feet.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.32)
In no instance shall the main service entrance for manufactured
homes be smaller than a 100 amp service and will be a minimum of 120/240
volt.
(Ordinance adopting Code)
It shall be unlawful for any person operating a manufactured
housing park or occupying a manufactured housing to construct or permit
to be constructed in such park or in connection with such manufactured
housing any additional structure, building or shelter in connection
with or attached to a manufactured housing; except however, awnings
of canvas or metal, suitably constructed, may be attached to a manufactured
housing.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.34)
Each boundary of a manufactured housing park, except those adjacent
to a street or highway right-of-way, shall be provided with a continuous
natural or artificial barrier.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.35)
All plumbing, electrical work and water connections on or at
any park licensed under the provisions of this article and each manufactured
housing space, and each manufactured housing placed thereon shall
be in conformity with the provisions of this code, state law and all
city ordinances, rules and regulations regulating such work.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.36)
(a) Waste
from showers, bathtubs, flush toilets, urinals, lavatories, slop sinks
and laundries in service and other buildings within each manufactured
housing park shall be discharged into a public sewer system in compliance
with applicable provisions of this code, or into a private sewer and
disposal plant or septic tank system of such construction and in such
manner as will present no health hazard.
(b) Each
manufactured housing space shall be provided with a trapped sewer
at least four inches in diameter, which shall be connected to receive
the waste from the shower, bathtub, flush toilet, lavatory and kitchen
sink of the manufactured housing harbored in such space and having
any or all of such facilities. The trapped sewer in each space shall
be connected to discharge the manufactured housing waste into a public
sewer system in compliance with applicable provisions of this code,
or into a private sewer disposal plant or septic tank system of such
construction and in such manner as will present no health hazard.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.37)
Private receptacles with tight-fitting covers shall be provided
in each manufactured housing park in quantities adequate to permit
disposal of all garbage and rubbish. Garbage cans shall be located
not farther than 300 feet from any manufactured housing space. The
cans shall be kept in sanitary condition at all times. Garbage and
rubbish shall be collected and disposed of as frequently as may be
necessary to ensure that the garbage cans shall not overflow.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.38; Ordinance adopting Code)
(a) Every
manufactured housing park shall be equipped at all times with fire
extinguishing equipment in good working order, of such type, size
and number and so located within the park as to satisfy applicable
reasonable regulations of the fire department. No open fires shall
be permitted at any place which may endanger life or property. No
fires shall be left unattended at any time.
(b) Bottled
gas for cooking purposes shall not be used at individual manufactured
housing spaces unless the containers are properly connected by copper
or other suitably metallic tubing. Bottled gas cylinders shall be
securely fastened in place. No cylinder containing bottled gas shall
be located in a manufactured housing space or within five feet of
a door thereof. State and local regulations applicable to the handling
of bottled gas and fuel must be followed.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.39)
All service buildings and the grounds of each manufactured housing
park shall be maintained in a clean, sightly condition and kept free
of any condition that will menace the health of any occupant or the
public or constitute a nuisance.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.40)
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a manufactured
housing park, or to rent spaces in a manufactured housing park, without
complying with the provisions herein contained relating to the furnishing
of sewage and utilities.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.41)
It shall be unlawful for anyone to occupy a manufactured housing
in any such manufactured housing park without running water inside
of such trailer house and sanitary facilities available therein, which
have been connected with the city sewer system.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title XV, Chapter 153,
Section 153.42)