Chapter 21.34 — MOBILE HOME PARK OVERLAY ZONING DISTRICT

(a) The mobile home park (-MH) overlay zoning district is established to set forth standards to be applied to the development of new mobile home parks. This overlay district may only be applied in combination with an underlying zoning district of medium density residential (R-3) or high density residential (R-4). The standards herein are intended to ensure a suitable living environment for those persons residing within a mobile home park and to ensure compatibility of such park with the surrounding area.

(b) Unless otherwise specified, the provisions of California Code of Regulations Title 25 shall apply. (Ord. 612 Exhibit A (part), 2008).

In addition to the land use regulations of the underlying zoning district, the accessory uses listed in Table 21.34.020 may be established in the -MH overlay zoning district. Additional accessory use provisions are addressed in Chapter 21.42.

A = Accessory Use (Ord. 612 Exhibit A (part), 2008).

Table 21.34.030 sets forth the minimum development standards required for all new mobile home parks. In the event of conflict between these standards and those required for the underlying zoning district, the standards set forth in Table 21.34.030 shall prevail.

(Ord. 612 Exhibit A (part), 2008).

The following additional standards shall apply to all new mobile home parks.

(1) Management. Every mobile home park community shall be properly managed to ensure maintenance of common facilities and to ensure individual home sites are developed and maintained in accordance with recorded rules and regulations for the park.

(2) Site use and improvements. Each mobile home shall be located on an approved mobile home site, and all mobile home sites shall be designed to accommodate independent mobile homes. No mobile home site shall be used as the location for more than one mobile home or trailer. Each mobile home shall be skirted.

(3) Roadways. Mobile home parks shall be developed with a minimum thirty-six-foot wide driveway entrance. Interior private streets shall be a minimum twenty-four-foot width with no parking on either side of any private road, a minimum thirty-two-foot width where parking is allowed on one side, and a minimum forty-foot width where parking is allowed on both sides. Individual mobile home sites shall have direct access from an interior street and not from a public street outside the park. Mobile home park roadways and driveways shall be paved and maintained in good repair in accordance with city standards.

(4) Drainage. All mobile home parks shall be located on a graded site with no depressions in which surface water will accumulate. The ground shall be sloped to provide storm drainage run-off by means of surface or subsurface drainage facilities.

(5) Fences and walls. Along the common boundary between a mobile home park and any single-family residential property, a minimum six-foot-high decorative solid masonry wall shall be constructed to serve as a visual screen and buffer between uses.

(6) Landscape buffer. When a mobile home park shares a common boundary with any residential property, the required twenty-foot structural setback area along all such common boundaries shall be landscaped and may be used for recreational purposes as authorized in conjunction with the conditional use permit.

(7) Landscaping. All required minimum setback areas around the perimeter of the park shall be permanently landscaped and maintained with ground cover, trees, and shrubs. Additionally, at least one tree shall be planted for each mobile home site.

(8) Accessory structures (storage cabinets). Each mobile home site shall be permitted a maximum of two accessory storage cabinet structures, with a maximum combined area of one hundred square feet for storage purposes. Accessory structures shall not be located in the front yard of any site and shall be set back a minimum of three feet from the mobile home structure, with the exception that non-combustible structures need not be setback from the lot lines or mobile home structure.

a maximum of two accessory storage cabinet structures, with a maximum combined area of one hundred square feet for storage purposes. Accessory structures shall not be located in the front yard of any site and shall be set back a minimum of three feet from the mobile home structure, with the exception that non-combustible structures need not be setback from the lot lines or mobile home structure.

(9) Recreation area. A recreation area shall be provided and maintained on site at a rate of one hundred fifty square feet for each mobile home unit within the park. If children under the age of eighteen are permitted within the development, this requirement shall be increased to two hundred square feet for each mobile home space. Recreation areas include recreation rooms, landscaped buffer zones, walkways, playgrounds, and other similar amenities. (10) Trash and recycling areas. Centralized trash and recycling areas with enclosures are required to be located throughout the park. All enclosures shall be constructed in accordance with the standards of the city. Individual trash and recycling containers may be permitted, subject to approval of the franchised refuse collection company.

(11) Utilities. Unless otherwise specifically authorized by the designated approving authority, all utilities providing service to the park shall be placed underground. Equipment appurtenant to the underground facilities (e.g., transformers, meter cabinets) may be placed above ground.

(Ord. 612 Exhibit A (part), 2008).