Section 17.44.060 General regulations.
The following regulations apply to the MHP district:
A. Each mobile home park shall be connected to the city
of Hamilton water and sewer
system. The park shall be provided with a master water meter to meter the entire parks water use.
All utility service lines shall be installed below ground;
B. Minimum private interior street or drive width shall
be thirty (30) feet wide and shall
meet city public works street standards and specifications;
C. All street or drives shall be paved to city public
works street standards and drainage shall
be installed on-site to retain all storm water run-off on-site;
D. Area equal to five percent of the total area of the
mobile home park shall be dedicated to
common recreation and parks development for the park;
E. Boundaries of each mobile home lot as indicated on
the accepted plans shall be clearly
and permanently marked on the ground;
F. A mobile home and accessory buildings may occupy a
maximum of fifty (50) percent of
a lot;
G. Distance of mobile homes from park boundaries shall
be a minimum of twenty-five (25)
feet from any property boundary line provided with suitable landscaped cover;
H. Mobile homes shall be skirted within sixty (60) days
of installation with weather
resistant materials similar to that used in the mobile home’ s construction;
I. Mobile homes shall be anchored to the ground by conventional
construction method or
by over the top frame ties. Anchoring devices shall be capable of resisting a force equivalent to
an eighty (80) mile-per-hour (mph) wind;
J. Mobile home lots shall be designed with easy access
for placement and removal of
homes, shall be have longitudinal grade of less than four percent and provide adequate surface
drainage. The mobile home site on each lot shall be compacted and surfaced with material that
prevents vegetative growth;
K. Access to a mobile home park shall be from a public
street;
L. Each mobile home park shall be entirely enclosed,
exclusive of driveways, at its external
boundaries by a wall, fence or evergreen hedge which creates a visual buffer;
M. No space in a mobile home park shall be occupied until
at least ten spaces are completed
and ready for occupancy;
N. Roadways located within a mobile home park shall be
named, labeled, or otherwise
adequately described so as to be easily found by persons entering the park. Mobile home spaces
shall be numbered or otherwise adequately described and the number or other description shall
be posted at the proper space so that it can be clearly read from each street on which the space
fronts or abuts;
O. Off-street parking shall consist of two paved off-street
parking spaces shall be provided
for each mobile home lot. (Ord. 225 (part), 2003)
