§ 7.07.01. Development standards for mobile home and manufactured home parks.

The following development standards are to apply to the development of mobile home and manufactured home parks:

A.

Minimum park area. Fifteen acres, provided that the minimum park area is not less than the minimum area as established by the Okeechobee County comprehensive plan, with access from the mobile home or manufactured home park to a county or state-maintained road. This minimum area applies to all new parks. Existing parks may expand where such an expansion would result in a park that is less than the required minimum park area, provided that all zoning and other applicable regulations are met.

B.

Maximum density of units per gross acre. Eleven units per acre.

C.

Minimum number of spaces completed and ready for occupancy before first occupancy is permitted. Twenty units. Provided, however, the slabs required by subsection L below, may be constructed concurrent with the installation of the first unit on the site.

D.

Streets. Streets may be private streets but shall be constructed in accordance with the standards contained in this article as for public streets.

E.

Access. Access shall be designed for safe and convenient movement of traffic into and out of the park, with minimization of marginal friction with free movement of traffic on adjacent streets. All vehicular traffic into and out of the park shall be through such designated entrances and exits. Access management provisions of this article shall apply.

F.

Hurricane facilities. All new mobile home or manufactured home parks shall provide adequate on-site hurricane shelter space or the developer may opt to pay a hurricane shelter space impact fee. Any expansion of an existing mobile home or manufactured home park shall provide adequate on-site hurricane shelter space or the developer may opt to pay a hurricane shelter space impact fee as if it were a new park for existing as well as new residents. Prior to receipt of a final development order as described in article XIII of this Code, the developer shall provide the director of planning and development a certification by a professional engineer licensed in the State of Florida that the design of the required hurricane shelter is adequate to meet the needs of existing as well as new park residents. No permit shall be issued for a mobile home or manufactured home to be placed in a new mobile home or manufactured home park or the new area of an existing mobile home or manufactured home park unless the hurricane facilities required by this subsection are in place.

G.

Utilities.

1.

Overhead or low level street lighting shall be installed.

2.

Each mobile home space shall be provided with an approved type 115-230 volt electric supply outlet or outlets.

3.

Each mobile home space shall be connected to public central water and sewer. No individual water supply or sewage disposal system shall be permitted in any mobile home park.

H.

Utilities easements. Landscaped utilities easements may be provided along the rear of mobile home or manufactured home spaces. Such easements, where provided, shall not be less than ten feet in width. No permanent structures other than pedestrian ways, benches, recreational facilities, picnic areas, and lighting systems shall be located within such utilities easements and permitted structures shall be located so as not to impede maintenance of the underground utilities facilities. All utilities shall be located within such easements, if provided, or in easements adjacent to street pavements or in buffer areas as set out in section 7.06.01J.

I.

Storage areas. Storage areas may be provided for major recreational equipment, defined to include boats and boat trailers, recreational vehicles, pickup campers or coaches (designed to be mounted on automotive vehicles), motorized dwellings, tent trailers, houseboats, and the like; such equipment shall be permitted only in such designated areas of the mobile home park, and the use of such storage areas is limited to residents of the mobile home park. No piece of major recreational equipment parked in such storage areas shall be used for human habitation.

J.

Buffer. A buffer of not less than 25 feet in width shall be provided along streets abutting a mobile home or manufactured home park, and a buffer area not less than 15 feet in depth along other property lines of the mobile home or manufactured home park. Such buffer strips may be used for drainage structures and utilities easements but shall not be used for any other purpose other than landscaping and fences. The buffer shall be in addition to any required yards of spaces within the park.

K.

Reserved.

L.

Mobile home or manufactured home spaces. Each mobile home or manufactured home space shall contain a concrete slab not less than ten by 20 feet in dimension. No part of a mobile home, manufactured home, carport, or other structure placed or constructed on a mobile home or manufactured home space shall intrude into the required yards described in table 7.02.04B. The total structural coverage of all impervious surfaces shall not exceed 40 percent of the area of the space. Where the area of the space is less than 8,000 square feet, the structural coverage shall increase to 50 percent. See also limitations contained in section 7.09.01.

M.

Mobile home and manufactured home foundation and tiedown. Mobile homes and manufactured homes shall be placed and tied down as required by this Code. See part 7.08.00.

N.

Procedures. Development shall proceed in accordance with article XIII of this Code.

(Ord. No. 95-1, § 1 (7.07.01A), 6-8-95; Ord. No. 96-03, § 1, 4-11-96; Ord. No. 98-05, § 1, 6-25-98)