Mountain View Municipal Code § 36.12.15 RMH district development standards

New structures and alterations to existing structures shall be designed and constructed in compliance with this section. All requirements shown are minimums except where otherwise noted.

(Ord. No. 18.13, § 1, 12/10/13.)

The standards for land uses allowed in the RMH district other than mobile home parks shall be the same as provided for the R2 zoning district by Sec. 36.10.40.

(Ord. No. 18.13, § 1, 12/10/13.)

The following standards are intended to ensure that new, expanded or redeveloped mobile home parks, and new mobile home subdivisions are located and established so as to be compatible with adjacent residential neighborhoods and commercial areas. The planning and design of mobile home parks, including lots and other areas within parks, and the permitting of individual mobile homes within mobile home parks are regulated by the California Department of Housing and Community Development, and is not subject to the provisions of this section.

a. Site planning and design standards. Mobile home parks and subdivisions shall conform to the following minimum standards.

1. Minimum site area: five (5) acres.

2. Density: a maximum of eight (8) mobile home spaces per acre.

3. Setbacks. All structures, including but not limited to mobile homes, shall be set back from property lines as follows:

(a) Street frontage lot lines: thirty (30) feet.

(b) Exterior park lot lines not abutting streets: ten (10) feet.

4. Landscaping. Mobile home parks shall be landscaped as follows:

(a) Street frontages. Required setbacks shall be provided with a landscaped buffer at least fifteen (15) feet wide, except where cut by access driveways. Landscaping shall occupy a minimum of sixty (60) percent of the required street frontage setback area required by subsection a.3.(a), above.

(b) A minimum ten (10) foot wide screen planting shall be established between the mobile home park and peripheral property lines.

(c) A minimum twenty (20) percent of the total site area for each mobile home shall be permanently landscaped.

(d) A minimum of forty-five (45) percent of the total common area(s) of a mobile home park shall be permanently landscaped.

(e) At least one (1) fifteen (15) gallon tree shall be provided on each mobile home lot.

5. Fencing. The perimeter of a mobile home park or subdivision shall be enclosed by a six (6) foot high solid masonry wall (or alternate approved by the zoning administrator), located at the setback line along street frontages, and adjacent to property lines not abutting streets.

6. Signs. Sign area shall be limited to one (1) identification sign of fifty (50) square feet and one (1) directional sign of twenty-five (25) square feet, subject to zoning administrator approval.

b. Accessory commercial uses permitted. A mobile home park may contain commercial uses for the convenience of park residents; i.e., coin-operated laundry, soft drink, cigarette and similar machines, provided that these uses shall be located in the interior of the park and shall not occupy more than five hundred (500) square feet for each fifty (50) mobile homes or fraction thereof.

c. Use of mobile home lots. No more than one (1) occupied mobile home shall be allowed on any one (1) lot. No travel trailer, camper or other recreational vehicle shall be placed on any mobile home lot, either for occupancy or storage.

d. Recreational vehicle areas. Mobile home parks in the RMH zoning district may include spaces for occupied recreational vehicles, and/or recreational vehicle storage areas, provided that the location, number and size of spaces shall be authorized as part of the conditional use permit approval.

(Ord. No. 18.13, § 1, 12/10/13.)