4-9-110 MANUFACTURED AND MOBILE HOME PARKS:
A. PURPOSE:
It is the purpose of this Section to provide a means of regulating manufactured home parks so as to promote the health, safety, morals, general welfare and esthetics of the City of Renton. Manufactured home parks should provide a pleasant residential environment which will be an enjoyable place to live and a residential asset to the City. (Ord. 3746, 9-19-1983)
B. APPLICABILITY:
Development of mobile home parks shall conform to the regulations established herein. It shall be illegal to allow or permit any mobile home to remain in the mobile home park unless a proper space is available for it. It shall be illegal to allow a recreational vehicle without at least one internal toilet and one internal shower to remain in the mobile home park unless the mobile home park provides community toilets and showers. (Ord. 3902, 4-22-1985; Ord. 5676, 12-3-2012)
1. Exemptions: (Reserved)
C. AUTHORITY:
1. Building Official: It shall be the duty of the Building Official to enforce all provisions of this Section. (Ord. 3746, 9-19-1983)
2. Development Services Division: The Development Services Division shall be responsible for administering the review, design and construction provisions of this Section. For inspection purposes, any of the members of the Development Services Division or their duly authorized representatives and agents shall have the right and are hereby empowered to enter upon any premises at any reasonable time on which any trailers or mobile homes, as above defined, are located. The Development Services Division is empowered to issue orders, grant, renew and revoke such permits and licenses as are provided for in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
3. Hearing Examiner: The Hearing Examiner is designated as the official agency of the City for the review and approval of the design of a proposed mobile home park and the conduct of public hearings thereon.
D. SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS AND FEES: (Reserved)
E. PARK REVIEW PROCEDURES:
1. Application: The procedure for review and approval of a mobile home park consists of the preparation and submission to the Hearing Examiner of a mobile home park plan of the proposed mobile home park.
2. Referrals, Recommendations of Department: The Development Services Division shall transmit copies of the proposed mobile home park plan to the Public Works Department, the health agency, the Fire Department and copies to other department heads and agencies as necessary for their review and recommendation. Two (2) copies shall be retained by the Hearing Examiner. These departments and agencies shall make, within the scope of their municipal functions, their respective recommendations regarding the mobile home park plan to the Development Services Division, in writing, not less than fifteen (15) days prior to the date of hearing. (Ord. 5676, 12-3-2012; Ord. 5806, 6-20-2016)
3. Public Notice: Shall be as required by RMC 4-8-090, Public Notice Requirements.
4. Recommendations to Hearing Examiner: The Development Services Division shall transmit the application, the proposed mobile home park plan and the respective recommendations of City departments and other public agencies, together with the Development Services Division recommendations, to the Hearing Examiner for study at least seven (7) days prior to any such hearing.
5. Conditions of Approval: The Hearing Examiner may make any such changes or modifications he deems necessary in the design or layout of a mobile home park to optimize the development and use of the site, to protect adjoining and/or surrounding properties, developments, traffic patterns and/or accessibility.
6. Installation: A surety bond of not less than four hundred dollars ($400.00) per acre of the mobile home for a maximum of two (2) year period guaranteeing to the City the installation according to the approved landscape plan of walls, fences and landscaping required herein shall be posted prior to the issuance of any permits to construct the park.
7. Construction Timing: No grading, construction or similar activities, except the clearing of land, shall be permitted until the Hearing Examiner has given approval to the final plan.
8. Certificate of Occupancy: A signed certificate of occupancy shall signify that the mobile home park has been satisfactorily completed according to the approved final plan and the requirements of this Section.
F. DEFERRALS:
See RMC 4-9-060.
G. MAINTENANCE:
1. General: The mobile home park shall be kept in good repair to insure that said park shall be a pleasant, safe and sanitary living environment for present and future inhabitants.
2. Landscaping: The mobile park shall be kept in good repair and landscaped areas maintained. Landscaped areas will be subject to periodic inspection by the Development Services Division. Landscaping shall be kept neat and orderly.
H. EXPIRATION AND EXTENSION:
The approval of the mobile home park plan shall lapse unless a building permit based thereon is submitted within three (3) years from the date of such approval unless extended for good cause by the Hearing Examiner upon proper written application by the developer for a period not to exceed one year. Only one such extension shall be granted.
I. MODIFICATIONS TO APPROVED PLANS: (Reserved)
J. VIOLATION AND PENALTIES:
1. Revocation of License: The Building Official is hereby authorized to revoke any license issued pursuant to the terms of this Chapter if after due investigation it is determined that the owner thereof has violated any of the provisions of this Chapter or that any mobile home or mobile home park is being maintained in an unsanitary or unsafe manner or is a nuisance. Such notice of revocation shall be in writing and shall advise the licensee of the violations found. The licensee shall have a period of ten (10) days in which to remedy the defects or omissions therein specified. In the event that the licensee fails or neglects to do so within the said ten (10) day period, the order of revocation shall be final.
2. Misdemeanor: In addition to subsection J1 of this Section, any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Section shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor subject to RMC 1-3-1, and each such person, firm or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter is committed, continued or permitted. (Ord. 3746, 9-19-1983; Ord. 5159, 10-17-2005)
K. APPEALS:
See RMC 4-8-110.