Chapter 6.12
MOBILE HOMES AND MOBILE HOME PARKS3
Sections:
6.12.010 Definitions.
6.12.020 Enforcement.
6.12.030 Permits required.
6.12.040 Mobile home park permit—Plot plan and supplementary material required.
6.12.050 Mobile home parks—Design requirements.
6.12.060 Recreational vehicle parks— Design requirements.
6.12.070 Granting or rejection of permits.
6.12.080 Appeals.
6.12.100 Permit—Revocation.
6.12.110 Sanitary and health regulations.
6.12.130 Mobile home park—Register of occupants.
6.12.135 Mobile home park—Registered owner’s agent required.
6.12.140 Mobile home—Uses—Permit.
6.12.160 Mobile home park—Numbering spaces required.
6.12.180 Parking on public property prohibited.
6.12.190 Use as residence or sleeping quarters.
6.12.200 Additions.
6.12.010 Definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter the following terms have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, unless from the particular context it clearly appears that some other meaning is intended:
A. “Access roads” means a private road which does not extend beyond the boundaries of a mobile home park and which provides the principal means of access to abutting individual spaces and auxiliary buildings;
B. “Mobile home” means any coach, mobile home, manufactured home built in accordance with HUD standards, house car, trailer or other vehicle or structure designed or intended for or capable of human dwelling or sleeping purposes, mounted upon wheels or supports, and/or capable of being moved by its own power or transported by another vehicle, whether such mobile home is used or intended for permanent or transient occupancy;
C. “Mobile home park” means any park, court, parcel or tract of land designed, maintained, intended or used for the purpose of supplying a location or accommodations for more than three mobile homes, and includes all buildings used or intended for use as a part of the equipment thereof, whether or not a charge is made for the use of the park and its facilities. A mobile home park does not include automobile or trailer sales lots on which unoccupied mobile homes are parked for the purpose of inspection and sale, except for mobile homes which are fully set up for occupancy with not more than one mobile home located on each space;
D. “Person” includes an individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation; whether tenant, owner, lessee, or licensee, or their heir or assign;
E. “Play yard” means an area specifically set aside for the use of children, which area shall not be included within any mobile home spaces;
F. “Public street” means any street, road or highway of which the general public has the right of common enjoyment or which is publicly maintained;
G. “Recreational vehicle park” means any park, court, parcel or tract of land designed, maintained, intended or used for the purpose of supplying a location or accommodation for transient mobile homes. A transient mobile home is one that is intended to and actually remains in the same space for a period of less than two weeks;
H. “Space” means a plot of ground in a trailer or mobile home park of not less than eighteen hundred square feet of space designed for the location of at least one automobile and only one trailer;
I. “Unit” means a mobile home unit. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: B.C.S. § 8.08.010.)
6.12.020 Enforcement.
The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced by the municipal building official, who shall be appointed by the municipal administrator for such term and subject to such conditions and such rates of compensation as the municipal administrator directs. No permit or certificate of occupancy shall be issued for a mobile home park or mobile home unless the plans and facilities comply with the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: B.C.S. § 8.08.020.)
6.12.030 Permits required.
No land shall be used for a new mobile home park or tourist accommodation park unless a permit is issued under the terms of this chapter.
It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to operate, manage or maintain any new mobile home park or new recreational vehicle park within the city and borough without a permit therefor authorizing the operation of such park. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: B.C.S. § 8.08.030.)
6.12.040 Mobile home park permit—Plot plan and supplementary material required.
A complete plot plan and the following supplementary material shall be submitted to the municipal building official for review and approval prior to the issuance of a mobile home park permit:
A. The area and dimensions of the tract of land and land uses within one hundred feet;
B. Legal description of perimeter;
C. The number, location and size of all mobile home parking lots;
D. Location, width and surfacing of roadways, off-street parking and walkways;
E. Location of service buildings and any other proposed structures;
F. Methods and plans of water supply, surface drainage, sewage disposal and garbage disposal;
G. Location of the permanent monument required in Section 6.12.050;
H. Location and mapping of any portion of the property located within a federal flood hazard area according to the Flood Insurance Rate Map.
(Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: Ord. 82-507 § 4 (part), 1982; B.C.S. § 8.08.040.)
6.12.050 Mobile home parks—Design requirements.
A. There shall be at least one permanent monument located within the boundaries of each mobile home park, preferably at one of the property corners. Such monument shall be of the same nature as the monuments required by the platting ordinance of the city and borough, as defined in the presently existing ordinance or as defined in any future platting ordinance adopted by the city and borough. Such monument shall be shown on the plot plan required by Section 6.12.040.
B. Mobile homes shall be parked in spaces so that a fifteen-foot front yard and ten-foot rear yard setback is observed. The side yard setback shall be no less than five feet. No mobile home shall be placed nearer than twenty-five feet to any highway or arterial street.
C. Access roads for each unit shall have a minimum width of twenty feet to which every trailer unit shall have direct access. Such roads shall be good all-weather roads. Direct access from any public street or right-of-way to any trailer within a mobile home park shall not be permitted. Not more than two driveway entrances spaced not less than one hundred feet apart shall be permitted.
D. Sales lots upon which unoccupied trailers are to be displayed shall be not less than five thousand forty square feet in area and shall provide space for off-street parking of at least five automotive vehicles. Residential lots upon which one trailer may be located for use as a permanent dwelling shall contain a minimum area of five thousand forty square feet.
E. Play yards shall be at least one hundred square feet per trailer unit. The play yards shall be so located that no mobile home is more than five hundred feet from a play yard.
F. No major changes or alterations shall be made to any part of the mobile home park as outlined in an approved plan without approval by the municipal building official.
G. New mobile home spaces to be located within any portion of a flood hazard area shall contain ground anchors and tie-downs in accordance with National Flood Insurance Program requirements. The fact that the space is located within a flood hazard area shall be disclosed to the occupant along with any information, such as alternate access.
(Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: Ord. 82-520 § 4 (part), 1982; Ord. 82-507 § 4 (part), 1982; B.C.S. § 8.08.050.)
6.12.060 Recreational vehicle parks— Design requirements.
A permit shall be issued for a recreational vehicle park upon a showing by the applicant that the design requirements established by the city administrator have been fully complied with. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: B.C.S. § 8.08.060.)
6.12.070 Granting or rejection of permits.
Whenever the application shows that the proposed mobile home park or installation is in conformity with the provisions of this chapter and any applicable zoning and health regulations, the city and borough building official shall issue a permit; otherwise the application shall be rejected and the city and borough building official shall state in writing the reason for such rejection. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: B.C.S. § 8.08.070.)
6.12.080 Appeals.
Any person feeling aggrieved by a rejection of an application for a permit or certificate of occupancy may file an appeal in the manner provided in Section 6.12.100. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: B.C.S. § 8.08.080.)
6.12.100 Permit—Revocation.
Any violation of the conditions of the permit or certificate of occupancy will be grounds for revocation of the permit and/or certificate of occupancy, by administrative action of the city and borough building official. Any such revocation may be appealed to the planning commission of the city and borough, who shall hold a hearing on such appeal and make recommendations as to the disposition thereof to the city and borough assembly. The city and borough assembly shall make final disposition of any such appeal. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: B.C.S. § 8.08.100.)
6.12.110 Sanitary and health regulations.
All sanitary, health, and fire regulations, state and local, shall be met, and violations thereof shall be grounds for revocation of the permit and certificate of occupancy, subject to the same appeal procedure as provided in Section 6.12.080. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: B.C.S. § 8.08.110.)
6.12.130 Mobile home park—Register of occupants.
Mobile home park operators shall keep a register of the occupants of mobile home spaces. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: B.C.S. § 8.08.130.)
6.12.135 Mobile home park—Registered owner’s agent required.
Each mobile home park owner shall designate a Sitka resident as the owner’s agent. The agent shall be empowered to act on the owner’s behalf on matters pertaining to park management and maintenance. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004.)
6.12.140 Mobile home—Uses—Permit.
Except where a mobile home is located on a residential lot and lawfully used as a single-family dwelling, no mobile home shall be used as a place of business or as a place of habitation or stand in the open on any land more than thirty days without first obtaining the permit required in Section 6.12.070. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: B.C.S. § 8.08.140.)
6.12.160 Mobile home park—Numbering spaces required.
Owners of mobile home parks shall clearly number each space serially. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: B.C.S. § 8.08.160.)
6.12.180 Parking on public property prohibited.
It is unlawful for any motor home or camper vehicle, or any vehicle defined in Section 6.12.010(B) to park on municipal property overnight for more than a total of five days in any three-month period unless parked in a public campground or mobile home court. This provision shall be enforced by the city and borough police department. (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: Ord. 78-348 § 4, 1978.)
6.12.190 Use as residence or sleeping quarters.
No mobile home, or moveable trailer, camper body or motor home or other vehicle shall be used as a residence or sleeping quarters unless:
A. Such vehicle has a designated spot within a mobile home park, recreational vehicle park or other area specifically designated by the chief of police.
B. Such vehicle has a permanent spot on other private property where it spends the night and its placement on such property as a residence meets all zoning requirements, and such vehicle meets the standard size requirements and sanitation requirements of this code for a residence.
(Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004: Ord. 97-1452 § 4, 1997; Ord. 80-436 § 3, 1980.)
6.12.200 Additions.
Additions to units in mobile home parks shall be limited to sixteen feet in height. Height shall be measured as defined in Title 22, “Building height.” (Ord. 04-63 § 4 (part), 2004.)