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Sec. 66-43. Location; space; general layout.
(a) The mobile home park shall be located on a well-drained site, and shall be so located that its drainage will not endanger any water supply. All such mobile home parks shall be in areas free from marshes, swamps or other potential breeding places for insects or rodents.
(b) The area of the mobile home park shall be large enough to accommodate the following; provided, however, that no mobile home park shall be less than two square acres in area:
(1) The designated number of mobile home spaces.
(2) Necessary streets and roadways.
(3) Parking areas for motor vehicles.
(4) Sufficient designated public use areas to provide a reasonable playground and park area for the inhabitants of the park to be no smaller than an area equal to 300 square feet for each and every mobile home lot in such park, properly planted in lawn and maintained.
(c) Each independent mobile home space shall contain a minimum of 3,000 square feet, and shall be at least 40 feet wide. Each dependent mobile home space shall contain not less than 1,000 square feet and shall be at least 25 feet wide.
(d) Every mobile home space shall abut on a driveway or other clear area with unobstructed access to a public street. Such spaces shall be defined. Mobile homes shall be parked in such spaces so that there will be a minimum of 15 feet between mobile homes (measured from exterior wall of original mobile home or exterior wall of any addition, garage, covered porch or deck if one is attached thereto), and so that no mobile home will be less than ten feet from the exterior boundary of the mobile home park.
(e) It shall be unlawful to locate a mobile home within a mobile home park less than 50 feet from any public street or highway, or so that any part of such mobile home will obstruct any roadway or walkway in a mobile home park.
(f) It shall be unlawful to allow:
(1) Any mobile home to be occupied in a mobile home park unless the mobile home is situated on a mobile home space.
(2) An independent mobile home to be located on a dependent mobile home space.
(3) Dependent and independent mobile homes in the same park unless proper service buildings are available for dependent mobile homes.
(g) Access roads shall be provided to each mobile home space. Each access road shall provide for continuous forward movement, shall connect with a street or highway, and shall have a minimum width of 25 feet. All streets shall comply with the specifications required in new subdivisions in the city; parking shall be allowed on only one side of such streets, such parking to be designated by appropriate signs posted on such streets. Streets shall be bounded by integral concrete or asphalt curbs.
(h) Off-street parking areas shall be provided for the parking of motor vehicles. Such areas shall accommodate at least a number of vehicles equal to the number of mobile home spaces provided and shall be of hard surface construction.
(i) Outside drying spaces, or other clothes-drying facilities shall be provided. When central outdoor clothes-drying space is provided, a minimum of 2500 square feet per 100 mobile home spaces shall be furnished. Outdoor clothes-drying facilities may be installed on the individual mobile home space as a part of the basic facilities.
(j) A clearly lighted, adequately advertised public telephone shall be installed and constantly maintained in each mobile home park at a point as near the center of the park as practicable. Such telephone may require the use of a coin, on the same basis as other public telephones, in order to operate same; however, the telephone must be so situated that it will be immediately available to any occupant of the mobile home park at any hour of the night or day and under any weather conditions. The telephone numbers of the police and fire departments of the city must be printed clearly and in legible letters in such a position as to make them instantly and conveniently visible to any person operating the telephone.
(Code 1973, § 20-8)
State law reference(s)--Nonconforming uses, exceptions to zoning, A.C.A. § 14-56-305.
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