Chapter 18.08
PARK – CONSTRUCTION PLANS AND REQUIREMENTS
Sections:
18.08.010 Plans – Requirement – Filing.
18.08.030 Fences – Service buildings – Lot requirements.
18.08.040 Structures on mobile home lots.
18.08.050 Additions to mobile homes prohibited.
18.08.010 Plans – Requirement – Filing.
Prior to any construction or installation of any buildings or utilities in a new or proposed mobile home park, the owner or operator thereof shall obtain approval from and place on file with the building inspector four complete plans of the mobile home park. All such plans shall be prepared by a licensed professional engineer or architect; provided, however, that an owner may develop his own drawings when he is capable of producing drawings equivalent to the conventional drawings of architects and engineers; and providing, moreover, that those portions of the plans pertaining to the sewage disposal plant including septic tank, drainfield, and/or private treatment plant, shall be prepared in accordance with the requirement of the King County resolution relating to sewage disposal. (Ord. 324 § 8.21, 1962).
18.08.020 Plans – Contents.
The mobile home park plan shall be drawn to scale and completely dimensioned. Such plans shall clearly set forth the following information:
A. Name and address of the owner and/or operator;
B. Address, location and legal description of the mobile home park;
C. Extent of the area and dimensions of the site;
D. Entrances, exits, driveways;
E. Number, size and location of automobile parking accommodations;
F. Number, location and floor plans of all service buildings and other proposed structures;
G. Location and size of recreation area available;
H. Method and plan of sewage disposal;
I. Lighting plan;
J. Subsequent to the passage of the ordinance codified in this title, all mobile home parks shall provide and all new mobile home plans shall show;
1. One or more service buildings,
2. In new construction, mobile home lots shall have minimum dimensions of 30 feet by 50 feet, and no trailer shall be parked within 15 feet of any other trailer,
3. In new construction, plumbing fixtures in service buildings provided in the following minimum ratios:
Number Mobile Home Lots | Males | Females | ||
2 – 20 | Water Closets | 1 | Water Closets | 2 |
Urinals | 1 | Showers | 1 | |
Lavatories | 2 | Lavatories | 2 | |
Showers | 1 | |||
Over 20 | Add one additional water closet and lavatory for each sex for each additional 10 mobile home lots or fraction thereof. (For males, urinals may be substituted up to one third of the additional water closets required.) Add one additional shower for each sex for each additional 20 lots or fraction thereof. | |||
4. The minimum size of any trailer park district shall be 75,000 usable square feet. (Ord. 324 § 8.22, 1962).
18.08.030 Fences – Service buildings – Lot requirements.
The building department shall require compliance with the following provisions:
A. A solid wall or view obstructing or nonclimbable fence when required by the city council;
B. All mobile home parks shall be served by one or more service buildings;
C. All mobile home lots shall abut on a surfaced driveway or access road having a minimum width of 25 feet;
D. No building permit shall be issued for any service building which does not comply with the following requirements:
1. All service buildings shall be located at least eight feet away from any mobile home lot shown on the mobile home park plan.
2. All service buildings shall have smoothly finished, light-colored, water-resistant interior walls and ceilings. Floors shall be constructed of concrete or similar water impervious material and sloped to floor drains.
3. All service buildings shall provide adequate space for the plumbing fixtures required by SMC 18.08.020.
4. Toilet and bathing facilities shall not be further distant than 200 feet from any dependent mobile home nor greater than 500 feet from any independent mobile home. (Ord. 324 § 8.30, 1962).
18.08.040 Structures on mobile home lots.
No building permit shall be issued for any structure located on portions of the mobile home park which are shown and designated on the park plan as a mobile home lot, unless the owner or operator chooses to designate and reserve on the lot and adjoining lots a space or spaces which shall clearly be defined and reserved exclusively for the occupancy of a mobile home; and further provided that a plot plan for the lot on which the structure is to be built and the adjacent lots, shall be submitted to accompany the building permit application showing all structures and areas exclusively reserved for mobile homes; and provided further that the structure or structures for which the building permit is desired shall be no closer than eight feet from any space reserved for a mobile home on adjacent mobile home lots, and no closer than eight feet from any structure on an adjacent lot, and no closer than five feet from an external boundary of a mobile home lot which does not abut on another mobile home lot. (Ord. 324 § 8.31, 1962).
18.08.050 Additions to mobile homes prohibited.
No permanent additions of any kind shall be built onto, nor become a part of any mobile home. (Ord. 324 § 8.32, 1962).