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ARTICLE VIII#

MHR MOBILE HOME RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT#

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Cross reference—Manufactured homes and trailers, ch. 50.


Sec. 90-341. - General description; intent.#

The MHR mobile home residential district is composed of certain quiet, low-density residential areas plus certain open areas where similar residential development appears likely to occur. The regulations for this district are designed to stabilize and protect the essential characteristics of the district, to promote and encourage a suitable environment for family life where there are children and to prohibit all activities of a commercial nature. To these ends, development is limited to relatively low concentration, and permitted uses are limited to mobile home subdivisions.

(Code 1988, § 17-156; Ord. No. O-13-01 (01-14-2014), § 1, 1-14-2014; Ord. No. O-13-04, § 1, 1-14-2014)


Sec. 90-342. - Permitted uses.#

In the mobile home residential district MHR, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the following uses:

  1. Mobile homes.
  2. Public utilities such as poles, lines, distribution transformers, pipes, meters, or other facilities necessary for the provision and maintenance, including water and sewage facilities.
  3. Business signs only to advertise the sale or rent of the premises upon which erected.
  4. Nonbusiness directional signs.
  5. Home occupations: a. Office. b. Home occupation child care.
  6. Maintaining horses, mules, donkeys and ponies as defined in 90-1035.
  7. Maintaining poultry and bees as defined in 90-1035.1.

(Code 1988, § 17-157; Ord. No. O-02-012, 10-22-2002; Ord. No. O-17-04, § 1, 4-25-2017; Ord. No. O-13-01 (01-14-2014), § 1, 1-14-2014; Ord. No. O-13-04, § 1, 1-14-2014)


Sec. 90-343. - Minimum lot areas.#

Service Type Minimum Lot Area
(a) Served by public water and sewage disposal systems 12,000 square feet
(b) Served by either public water or sewage disposal systems but not both 17,500 square feet
(c) Served by individual water and sewage disposal systems 20,000 square feet

(Code 1988, § 17-158)


Sec. 90-344. - Setbacks.#

Structures in an MHR mobile home residential district shall be located 20 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width or 60 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width. This shall be known as the setback line.

(Code 1988, § 17-159)


Sec. 90-345. - Frontage.#

For a single permitted use in an MHR mobile home residential district served by both public water and sewage disposal systems, the minimum lot width at the setback line shall be 60 feet.

(Code 1988, § 17-160)


Sec. 90-346. - Yards.#

Yard Type Minimum Requirement
(a) Side Each main structure: 10 feet or more per side; total width of both required side yards: 25 feet or more
(b) Rear Each main structure: 20 feet or more

(Code 1988, § 17-161)


Sec. 90-347. - Building height.#

Building heights in an MHR mobile home residential district are limited to the standard height of a mobile home.§

(Code 1988, § 17-162)


Sec. 90-348. - Corner lots.#

(a) Of the two sides of a corner lot in an MHR mobile home residential district, the front shall be deemed to be the shortest of the two sides fronting on streets.

(b) The side yard on the side facing the side street shall be 20 feet or more for both main and accessory buildings.§

(Code 1988, § 17-163)


Sec. 90-349. - Minimum size of subdivision; plat.#

Every mobile home subdivision shall have a minimum size of 20 acres, and every subdivision plat proposed under the provisions of this section shall comply with the provisions of chapter 70, subdivisions.

(Code 1988, § 17-164)


Sec. 90-350. - Accessory uses and structures permitted.#

(a) In the MHR mobile home residential district, accessory uses and structures are permitted as defined. No accessory structure may be closer than five feet to any property line.§

(b) The following are considered accessory uses within the MHR mobile home residential district, but are subject to the noted provisions:

  1. Roof- or ground-mounted small solar energy facility or large-scale solar energy facility as defined by section 90-1, provided that the solar facility only generates energy for that structure.
  2. Accessory buildings; provided, however, garages or other accessory buildings, such as carports, porches and stoops, attached to a mobile home shall be considered part of the mobile home.

(Ord. No. O-17-04, § 1, 4-25-2017)