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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 78- 1004, Mobile home district regulations 453 ORDINANCE NO. 1004 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A MOBILE HOME DISTRICT DEFINING TERMS PROVIDING PERMITTED USES; PROVIDING FOR MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISION REQUIREMENTS AND MOBILE HOME DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS; PROVIDING FOR SKIRTING OF MOBILE HOMES AND LANDSCAPING OF MOBILE HOME DEVEL- I OPMENTS; PROVIDING FOR PERMITTED SIGNS AND ESTABLISHING A PROCEDURE FOR MOBILE HOME PERMITS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BOZEMAN, MONTANA, AS FOLLOWS, TO WIT: Section I (18.66.0l0)Intent The intent of this section is to provide for mobile home park and subdivision development in appropriate districts and to establish standards for development in order to integrate mobile homes into an area without adversely affecting surrounding properties and to provide safeguards for residents of mobile homes. Section II (18.66.020) Definitions For the purpose of this section, definitions in Chapter 18.06 of this ordinance apply except for the following terms: 1. Density - The number of mobile home units per acre. 2. Lot - The total area reserved within a mobile home park for the placement of one mobile home and the exclusive use of its occupants. 3. Mobile Home Stand - That part of an individual lot which has been reserved for the placement of a mobile home, appurtenant structures or additions. 4. Recreation Area - An area including open space and playgrounds and buildings and apparatus designed for recreational activities set aside for the use of the mobile home park residents. I 5. Site - The entire gross area of the mobile home park or subdivision. Section III (18.66.030) Permitted Uses 1. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental thereto. No part of any mobile home park or subdivision shall be used for non-residential purposes, except such uses that are required for direct servicing and well being of park residents and for management and maintenance of the park or subdivision. Nothing in this section shall be deemed as prohibiting the sale of a mobile home located on a mobile home stand and connected to the pertinent utilities. 2. Mobile home parks on sites of not less than ten (10) acres in area, with a minimum of twenty-five (25) lots. 3. Mobile home subdivisions on sites of not less than ten (10) acres in area. Section IV (18.66.040) Mobile Home Subdivision Requirements 1. Lot Area and Width - Minimum lot area for mobile homes shall be six thousand (6,000) square feet with a minimum lot width of sixty (60) feet, where both municipal or community water and sanitary sewer systems are available. Where community systems are not available, lot size will be determined by soil and groundwater conditions and approved by the State Board of Health. 2. Lot Coverage and Floor Area - Not more than fifty percent (50%) of the lot shall be occupied by the mobile home and accessory buildings. Each mobile home shall have a minimum of seven hundred (700) square feet of floor area. 3. Yards - Every lot shall have the following minimum yards: I Front yard twenty-five (25) feet Rear yard twenty (20) feet Side yard eight (8) feet each side* Street side yard twenty-five (25) feet *When a lot is adjacent to another residential zone, the side yard ad- jacent to the zone shall be a minimum of twenty (20) feet. 4. Building Height - Maximum building height shall be twenty-four (24) feet. 5. Off-Street Parking - Two (2) off-street parking spaces shall be provided for each mobile home. ORDINANCE NO. 1004 454 Section V (18.66.090) General Requirements For Mobile Home Development 1. Utilities - Utilities shall be provided in the following manner or by an alternative manner approved by the City Commission: A. All sanitary sewage utilities and water facilities, including connections provided to individual lots, shall meet the requirements of the City of Bozeman and/or I Gallatin County. B. The plumbing connections to each mobile home lot shall be constructed so that all lines are protected from freezing, from accidental bumping or from creating any type of nuisance or health hazard. C. Storm drainage facilities, where necessary, shall be so constructed as to protect those that will reside in the mobile home as well as the property of adjacent owners. Such facilities shall be of such capacity to insure rapid drainage and prevent the accumulation of water in, or adjacent to, the development. D. All electric, telephone and other lines from supply poles to each mobile home lot shall be underground. When meters are installed, they shall be uniformly located. E. All fuel lines leading to mobile home lots shall be underground and so designed as to conform with the Bozeman Plumbing Code and any state code that is found to be applicable. When separate meters are installed, each shall be located in a uni- form manner. 2. Landscaping - Landscaping is required to provide a buffer between mobile home parks and subdivisions and adjacent properties. A. A minimum of seventy-five percent (75%) of the following required landscaped areas shall have a ground cover of grass or other plant materials. 1. Seventy-five percent (75%) of all yards abutting public or private streets. 2. All side yards not covered by vehicular ingress-egress ways and walkways. B. Required within the yard abutting public streets, one (1) tree for every fifty (50) feet (or portion thereof) of street frontage. This should not be construed to mean trees must be placed fifty (50) feet on center. I C. In addition to trees based upon street frontage, one (1) tree is required for every mobile home. All deciduous trees shall be of a minimum of two (2) inch calipers. All coniferous trees shall be a minimum of five (5) feet in height. D. Examples of buffer requirements are: 1. A greenbelt of not less than twenty (20) feet in width along the perimeter of the mobile home park or subdivision. The greenbelt shall be developed with a mixture of hardy deciduous and coniferous plant material, grass or ground cover and maintained in a neat, orderly manner. All landscape plans shall be prepared and certified to by a registered landscape architect or licensed nurseryman. 2. A continual ornamental solid wall or fence six (6) feet in height above grade, constructed of wood, brick, cement, or stone erected one (1) foot off property lines shall be erected between differently zoned classifi- cations. 3. Any combination of these two methods may be used upon approval of the Planning Staff. 3. Skirting Requirements - All mobile homes placed upon mobile home zoned lots shall have the space below the mobile home skirted by weatherproof material, metal or wood, compatible with the exterior design of the mobile home. The skirting shall be sec- urely anchored to resist wind loads. 4. Permitted Signs - The following signs shall be permitted in the R-MH (Residential- Mobile Home) district: A. One (1) sign not exceeding sixteen (16) square feet in area identifying the mobile I home park or displaying the name of the mobile home subdivision. Such signs shall be attached flat against a main building or may be freestanding, provided that no freestanding sign shall exceed eight (8) feet in height or be located within five (5) feet of any street line or within fifteen (15) feet of any other property line. Such sign may be illuminated, provided that the source of illumination is not visible. No such sign shall be animated. 5. Permits - No mobile homes may be placed on a lot outside of a licensed mobile home park until a Twenty Dollar ($20.00) installation/inspection fee of paid to the Department of Building Inspection. A. It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, alter, or extend any mobile homes unless a valid permit has been issued by the Department of Building Inspection. ORDINANCE NO. 1004 455 B. The erection, construction, reconstruction, repair, relocation and/or alteration of all permanent buildings and structures located within a mobile home park or sub- division shall conform to the requirements of the Uniform Building Code adopted by the City of Bozeman and any regulations within Regulation No. 54-500, Montana State Department of Health. C. All mobile home parks developed under this ordinance shall comply with Montana State Department of Health's Regulation No. 54-500 or any amendment thereto con- I cerning plumbing and electrical requirements. D. All additions to or expansions (porches, rooms, etc.) of mobile homes shall be of a material and design consistent and complimentary to that of the exterior design of the mobile home as approved by the Department of Building Inspection. Section VI This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days from and after its final passage and approval according to law. PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BOZEMAN, MONTANA, THIS 22nd DAY OF March, 1978. MAYOR ATTEST: I State of Montana ) County of Gallatin) City of Bozeman ) I, Erna V. Harding, Clerk of the Commission of the City of Bozeman, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1004 was published by title and number in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in said Bozeman in the issue of the 31st day of March, 1978, and due proof of such publication is on file in my office. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I hereunto set my hand and affix the corporate seal of my office this 30th day of May, 1978. I,:J' /c~~' ,., , ".. , "~~. ::t-4:,<---" - ;;-;:. _. "!I' Clerk of the City Commi on I ORDINANCE NO. 1004