Chapter 17.72 — MOBILEHOME PARKS

No mobilehome shall be occupied or used for living or sleeping purposes, or be parked other than in a mobile home sales yard, or in an approved storage area within a CS, CH or I district, unless it is located within a licensed mobilehome park; provided, that a mobilehome may also be used as follows:

• A. As an office for a construction project, circus or carnival;

• B. As a residence of a watchperson on the site of a construction project or an industrial use;

• C. To provide temporary living quarters for circus or carnival personnel in accordance with the provisions of an approved conditional use permit;

• D. As a single-family dwelling when set on a permanent foundation within any R or RM district. (Ord. 92-73; Ord. 23-449, 11/13/2023)

For purposes of this chapter, mobilehome parks are considered to require the same considerations in their location as do other types of dwellings under low, medium or high density policies of the general plan. Mobilehome parks shall be located only within R or RM districts, with access from elements of the arterial or collector street system to be considered as a condition of approval. Mobilehome parks shall be permitted only in accordance with the regulations of Chapter 17.112 and this section.

(Ord. 92-73)

• A. Park Area, Density and Site Area.

  1. The minimum area of a mobilehome park shall be five acres. The first phase of mobilehome park development shall be not less than five acres and shall include all required recreational and service amenities.

  2. The maximum density shall be eight mobilehome sites per gross acre.

  3. Each mobilehome site shall be not less than 3,000 square feet in area, including pad, parking, private access, landscaping and private storage areas.

  4. No mobilehome site shall be less than 30 feet in width.

• B. Clearances, Setbacks and Yard Spaces.

  1. Clearances, setbacks and yard spaces for mobilehome parks are indicated in the following table:

2. Yard requirements for mobilehome sites within the park shall be as follows:

3. No mobilehome shall be located in any required yard space, except that tow bars may extend into such yard space, and other incidental structures may be located in accordance with the provisions of Section 17.36.050(F) .

• C. Patios and Pads.

  1. Each mobilehome site shall have a hard surfaced patio area of not less than 200 square feet. A permanent porch greater than 20 square feet in area may be counted as part of the required patio area.

  2. Each mobilehome site shall have a support pad of concrete or asphalt concrete laid over a compacted surface base which, in combination, will be adequate to support the mobilehome on a level plane.

• D. Parking.

  1. Not less than two off-street parking spaces shall be provided within each home site, one of which may be tandem to the other.

  2. Not less than one guest parking space shall be provided for each mobilehome site at a location central to each four contiguous mobilehome sites; provided, that guest parking

shall not be required for mobilehome sites along a collector street constructed to the width prescribed under subsection E below.

3. Parking shall be provided for central recreation buildings, park offices and other similar buildings at a ratio of one parking space for each 400 square feet of gross floor space.

4. Supplemental parking for pleasure boats, recreation vehicles and nonoccupied travel trailers shall be provided at a ratio of one parking space for each 10 mobilehome sites, and shall be used only by mobilehome park tenants. The parking shall be clustered, easily accessible via interior drives, and screened from view by means of a solid ornamental fence or wall and landscaping.

5. All parking areas and spaces shall be designed and constructed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17.76 .

• E. Streets.

  1. Entrance streets shall be located to assure safe access to and from the public street system.

2. Minor streets within the mobilehome park shall be a minimum of 30 feet of paved width; collector streets shall be a minimum of 36 feet of paved width. Paving shall be to city standards.

   3. Streets shall be constructed to effect positive drainage, including concrete curbs and gutters constructed to city standards.

   4. Parallel parking shall be permitted on both sides of a collector street and on only one side of a minor street. Such on-street parking shall be in addition to the off-street parking requirements of this section.

• F. Driveways, Street Signs, Lighting, Storm Drainage, Water and Sewer Systems. Driveways for individual mobilehome sites, street signs, interior street lighting, storm drainage facilities and water and sewer systems shall be installed subject to approval of the director of public works.

• G. Underground Utilities. All public utilities shall be installed underground, including electrical, telephone, street lighting cable, community television antenna connections and ducts for cable television. A community television antenna with underground ducts and connections to each mobilehome site shall be provided.

• H. Recreation Areas and Pedestrian Ways.

  1. Common recreation area in an aggregate total equal to 10% of the gross area of the mobilehome park shall be provided at a location or locations which are easily accessible and convenient to park residents.

  2. Recreation areas shall be landscaped and maintained, with all landscaped areas to be irrigated by an automatic underground system.

  3. Pedestrian ways shall be provided throughout the mobilehome park, connecting all mobilehome sites with each other and with common recreation areas. Such pedestrian ways shall be provided where possible at locations away from the interior street system to avoid conflict in pedestrian and vehicle traffic.

  4. The calculation of common recreation areas shall not include yard areas, pedestrian ways, management offices, laundry and tenant storage areas and parking areas.

• I. Signs. No more than one identification sign shall be erected displaying the name of the mobilehome park. Such signs shall be located near the park entrance drive, and shall not exceed 32 square feet in total readable surface area or eight feet in height. Such sign shall be installed within the front yard area of the mobilehome park, parallel to the abutting street, with

landscaping at its base. Additional directional and identification signs may be installed within the mobilehome park subject to the approval of the planning director.

• J. Landscaping and Screening. Mobilehome parks shall provide permanently-maintained landscaped areas and site screening as follows:

  1. A landscaped border along the entire street frontage yard area and along the rear yard if such yard is adjacent to a public street;

  2. Ornamental screen wall or fencing, seven feet in height, along all interior side property lines, along all rear property lines which do not abut a public street, and along street side yard and street front yard setback lines.

• K. Other Requirements.

  1. Each mobilehome park shall provide:

• a. A laundry building equipped for clothes washing and drying;

  - b. An outdoor clothes drying area screened from view from other areas of the mobilehome park by an ornamental screen, fence or wall and landscaped area; 
  
  - c. Trash enclosures at locations along the interior street system which are convenient to all residents and to municipal refuse trucks, integrated with parking areas. Trash enclosures are not required where each mobile home unit is served by mechanized individual unit trash pickup service. 
  

  2. Applications for mobilehome parks shall be subject to site plan review under the provisions of Chapter 17.100 .

• L. Placement and Sale of Mobilehomes.

  1. At the time of placement on the site, all mobilehomes shall be fitted with appropriate skirts to obscure stands, pads, and under-carriage equipment.

  2. Mobilehomes may be displayed and sold within a mobile home park similar to the sale of model homes within a residential subdivision; provided, that such mobilehomes are not sold for delivery to any location other than within the mobilehome park in which sold, and that all mobilehomes are placed on mobilehome sites and connected to all utility services. No more than four mobilehomes shall be offered for sale at any one time, and advertising for sale shall be limited to one nonilluminated sign not exceeding eight square feet in area on the site of each mobilehome offered for sale.

(Prior code § 183.03(C))