HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 65-151ORDINANCE NO. 65 -151-
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO AND REGULATING
MOBILE HOME PARKS AND MOBILE HOMES THERE-
IN, REQUIRING PERMITS AND AFFIXING FEES
THEREFOR, DESCRIBING MIMIMUM STANDARDS FOR
CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
OF MOBILE HOME PARKS, ESTABLISHING RESPONS-
IBILITIES, DEFINING OFFENSES AND PRESCRIB-
ING PENALTIES, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES
IN CONFLICT.
The City Council of the City of Temple City, State of Calif-
ornia, ordains as follows:
Section 1: DEFINITIONS Words and phrases used herein, un-
less clearly contrary to or inconsistent with the context in which
they are used, shall be construed to mean the following:
(1) AWNING. "fawning" means any shade structure of approved
material installed, erected, or used adjoining or adjacent to a
mobile home. Awning does not include a window awning.
(2) CABANA. "Cabana" means any portable, demountable, or
permanent cabin, small house, room, enclosure, or other building
erected, constructed or placed on any trailer site; a permanent�cab-
ane means any cabana which is designed so as to be not readily dis-
assembled, moved or reassembled; a portable or demountable cabana
means any prefabricated cabana which is designed to be readily assem-
bled and disassembled and adapted to ready transportation from place
to place. The term "Cabana" does not include awning.
(3) MOBILE HOME. "Mobile Home" means camper, and any veh-
icle designed and constructed to travel on the public thoroughfares
which provides a dwelling or sleeping places for one or more persons
and which is licensable as such.
(4) MOBILE HOME PARK. "Mobile Home Pare means any area,
lot or tract of land upon which two (2) or more mobile homes, occupied
for dwelling or sleeping purposes are located.
(5) MOBILE HOME SITE. "Mobile Home Site" means a plainly
marked plot of ground within a mobile home park designated to accom-
modate one mobile home.
(6) DEPENDENT MOBILE HOME. "Dependent Mobile Home" means
a mobile home dependent upon the sanitary facilities as provided in
a service building.
(7) INDEPENDENT MOBILE HOME. "Independent Mobile Home"
means a mobile home equipped with toilet and independent sanitary
facilities for sewage disposal.
(8) RAMADA. "Ramada" means any roof, or shade structure
installed,erected, or used above a mobile home and site, or any por-
tion thereof.
(9) SERVICE BUILDING. "Service Building" means a building
for the purpose of housing community toilet facilities, bathing fac-
ilities and /or laundry facilities.
(10) PERSON. "Person" means any individual, firm, corpor-
ation, partnership, or association.
Section 2: PERMITS REQUIRED TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN OR
OPERATE A MO13T LE HOME PARK.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain or op-
erate any mobile home par;; in the City of Temple City, California,
unless he holds a valid permit issued in the name of such person for
the specific mobile home park.
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(2) Applications shall be made in writing to the City
which shall issue a permit upon compliance with the provisions of
this ordinance and all Building, Fire, Health and Zoning Laws app -
licable thereto.
(3) All permits shall be nontransferable and all persons
holding such permits shall surrender same and give notice to the
City within twenty -four (24) hours after having sold, transferred,
given away or otherwise disposed of any interest in or control of
any mobile home park.
(4) A mobile home park permit shall authorize the one named
thereon to operate the mobile home park on the premises listed on the
permit and to accommodate the number of mobile homes for which the
permit is issued, from the date of issuance until the expiration of
the license which shall be the first day of January, unless the permit
is suspended or revoked by the City. Permit renewal applications
shall be made not later than ten (10) days prior to December 31st of
each year.
(5) The annual fee for permits required by this ordinance
shall be based on the following fee schedule:
2 to 10 mobile home sites $25.00 per
year.
11 and over $25.00 per
year and
$2.00 for each
additional
site over 10
Permits issued for any mobile home park after January 1st
in any year shall pay a permit fee of one - twelfth (1 /12th) of the
fees stipulated in this section for each month remaining in the year
ending the next December 31st. The month in which such permit is
issued shall be considered a complete month in this determination.
(6) All mobile home park permits shall be conspicuously
displayed in the office of such parks at all times.
(7) Any mobile home park permit may be suspended or revoked
by the City after an opportunity for a hearing by the ,City upon the
violation by the holder of any of the provisions of this ordinance or
any other applicable laws; provided, however, that an appeal may be
taken to the City Council from the order revoking n or suspending any
such permit. Any appeal shall be taken within ten (10) days from the
issuance of such order by serving a copy of a written notice thereof
on the Building Department and filing the original with the City
I f the infraction on which the suspension of revocation is
based involves a law or laws within the jurisdiction of the Health
Department, the mobile home park shall be closed until the appeal is
disposed of.
Section 3: MO3ILE HOME PARK PLANS RE'UIRED.
(1) Prior to any constuction or installation of any build -
ings or utilities in a new of proposed mobile home park, or prior to
any expansion of any existing mobile home park, the owner or operator
thereof shall obtain approval from and place on file with the Build-
ing Department four (4) copies of a complete plan of the mobile home
park. All such plans shall be prepared by a licensed professional
engineer, landscape architect or architect; provided, however, that
an owner may develop his own drawings when he is capable of producing
drawings equivalent to the conventional drawings of architects, land -
scape architects and engineers, and provided Further that those por-
tions of the plans pertaining to sewage disposal facilities shall be
prepared by licensed professional engineers familiar with the design .
features of such systems or by a sewage disposal designer whose com-
petency has been certified.
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Two (2) sets of such plans shall be provided to the Health Department
by the Building Department, one set to be returned to the Building
Department with any corrections or additions required and one (1)
set to remain in the Health Department's files. All plans shall be
drawn to scale and completely dimensioned. The Building Department
shall reserve the right to refuse to examine any incomplete, uniil-
telligible or indefinite drawings.
(2) Plans for the design of the Mobile Home Park shall
clearly set forth the following information:
(a) Name and address of the owner and /or operator.
(b) Address, location and legal description of the
property on which the mobile home park is to be located.
(c) Extent of the area and dimensions of the mobile
home park.
(d) Size, location and number of mobile home sites,
segregated as to areas for dependent and independent mobile homes, if
both are to be accommodated..
ways.
accommodations.
(e) Entrances, exits, driveways, walkways and road
(f) Number, size and location of automobile parking .
(g) Location and size of areas set aside for storage
of unoccupied trailers, if any such area is to be provided.
(h) Plan of storage facilities for use of occupants
of mobile home park.
(i) Humber and location of all service buildings and
other proposed structures.
if any.
(j) Locat.i on, size and design of recreation areas,
(3) Plans for the mobile home park shall be accompanied
by additional plans showing:
(a) Method of garbage disposal
(b) Method of rubbish storage
(c) Method and plan of sewage disposal
(d) Plan of water system
(e) Plans for outside lighting of the Mobile Home
Park
Section 4: REQUIRED STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS.
Mobile home par.: plans shall meet the following standards
and conditions:
(1)
Area, Site,Size, Roads, Parking.
(a) The area of a mobile home park shall be not
less than three (3):acres.
(b) Of the total number of mobile home sites
con-
tained the mob i l e home park not less to = , seventy-five G5)
5)
percent shall contain in area of . one thousand : i cht hundred (1,800)
square feet or-more; f i =teen percent (15 %) may contain an area of not
less than one thousand two hundred .(1,200) square feet; ten percent
(1O %) may contain an area of not less than seven hundred and fifty
(750) square feet.
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Such required areas shall be exclusive of space for parking of auto-
mobiles if intended to be contained on the mobile home site.
(c) All mobile home sites shall abut on a hard - surfaced
driveway or access roadway having a minimum width of twenty -five (25)
feet.
(d) Building improvements and mobile home sites in mobile
home parks shall be set back from public streets and adjoining proper-
ty as provided in the city's zoning ordinance.
(e) A solid wall or view - obscuring fence, when required by
the city's zoning ordinance, shall be maintained in accordance with
such ordinance.
(f) Off - roadway parking shall be provided in an amount equa .
to one (1) space of not less than 9 -1/2 feet by twenty (20) feet for
each mobile home site. Such off - roadway parking may be provided as an
individual space on each mobile home site, or in separate parking
areas, provided such separate parking area shall be located not more
than one hundred (100) feet from any mobile home site not containing
its individual parking space on site.
(g) Off- roadway parking areas to accommodate automobiles
of guests of occupants shall be provided in an amount equal to one
(1) space of not less than nine and one -half (9 -1/2) feet by twen'"t.y
(20) feet of area for every four (4) mobile home sites contained
within the mobile home park, plus unobstructed means for ingress and
egress.
(h) All signs identifying the premises shall be p.ermi;,tted
only in accordance with the city's zoning ordinance.
(i) Yards and open spaces shall be provided on each mobile
home site as follows:
(1) There shall be a front yard ndt'less than
five (5) feet in depth extending across the entire width of the mobi 6:
home site measured from the front of the site towards the rear.
(2) At the rear of the site there shall be an
open space not less than three (3) feet in depth extending across
the entire width of the site. Such depth shall be measured from the
rear line of the site towards the front.
(3) On the right side of the mobile home site as
'Viewed from the roadway serving such site, and extending from the rear
of the required front yard to meet the three -foot rear open space
there shall be a side yard not less than three (3) feet in width.
Side yards shall be measured from the site side line towards the cen-
ter of the site.
(4) On the opposite, or left, side of the mobile
home site, and extending from the rear of the required front yard to
meet the three -foot rear open space, there shall be a side yard not
less than five (5) feet in width.
(5) All required yards and open spaces shall be
kept clear and unobstructed from the ground to the sky.
(2) Specifications for Buildings, Equipment, Facilities and
Services to be Installed Within a Mobile Home Park.
(a) Detailed plans showing floor plans, location of install
ed plumbing, heating equipment and lighting facilities shall be in-
cluded with the application for building permits.
(b) No building permit shall be issued for any service
building which does not comply with the following requirements:
(1) All service buildings shall have smoothly -
finished, light- colored, water - resistant interior walls and ceilings.
Floors shall be constructed of concrete or similar water - impervious
material and sloped to floor drains.
(c) Plumbing facil it;,ies sh.all be provided in the- followirIr 53
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ratios:
DEPENDENT MOBILE HOMES
MALES FEMALES
No. Mobile Water Lava- Show- Water
Home Sites Closets Urinals tories ers Closets Showers Lavatories
2- 20 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
21 - 3 0 3 1 3 2 4 2 3
31 - 40 4 1 4 2 5 2 4
41 - 50 5 2 5 4 6 4 5
51 - 60 6 2 6 4 7 4 6
61 - 70 7 2 7 5 8 5 7
Over 70.add one (1) additional water closet and lavatory for each sex
for each additional ten (10) mobile home sites or fraction thereof.
(For males, urinals may be substituted up to 1/3 of the additional
water closets required). Add one additional shower for each sex for
each additional twenty (20) sites or fraction thereof.
MALE
INDEPENDENT MOBILE HOMES
FEMALE
For each service Water Water Lava -
building serving Closets Lavatories Showers Closets Showers tories
independent mo-
bile homes 2 2 2 2 -2 2
Water closets, lavatories and showers required for independent
mobile homes may be included in service buildings serving de-
pendent mobile homes.
(d) Separate toilets and shower facilities for males and
females shall be plainly marked with appropriate signs, and individual
toilets shall be flush -type fixtures maintained in a workable and
sanitary condition and located in stalls at least three (3) feet wide
in the smallest dimension and separated from other water closets.
(e) Shower stalls shall be not less than three (3) feet
wide in the smallest dimension, be provided with a water -proof draw
curtain or door and be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.
(f) A dressing area shall be provided in each shower room,
and the dressing area shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary
condition at all times.
(g) All service buildings shall be provided with means for
artificial heat by equipment which shall be kept in a safe and work-
able condition and capable of maintaining an air temperature of a
minimum of seventy degrees (700) F. Plans showing design for such
heating methods and equipment shall be approved by the City.
(h) All electrical outlets and fixtures shall be properly
installed, shall be maintained in a good and safe working condition
and shall be connected to the source of electric 'power in a safe
manner.
(i) Adequate means of lighting shall he provided as follows:
(1) A minimum of two (2) candle foot of light shall be
provided for all driveways, roadways and walkways within the mobile
home park.
(2) In the interior of buildings lighting shall be in
an amount of not less than one -half (2) watt per square foot of floor
area in each room contained in such building.
(3) Buildings or portions of buildings containing toi-
lets and lavatories shall be lighted from one -half hour after sunset
of every day to one -half hour before sunrise of the succeeding day.
Every public bath, laundry tray, sink and slop -sink shall be supplied
with lights which may be turned on and off by the person using such
room.
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(j) Hot water inadequate quantities shall be supplied to
all service buildings, bathing fixtures, lavatories and clothes wash-
ing equipment.
(k) Laundry facilities, together with laundry drying facil-
ities shall be provided. No less than one (1) double laundry tray or
automatic washing machine shall be provided for each twenty (20) mo-
bile home sites in the mobile home park. Laundry facilities shall be
in a room or rooms separate from the toilet and bathing facilities,
and such room or rooms shall have exterior doors.
(1) Water connections for individual mobile homes shall be
provided and located on the same side of the site as the sewer lateral
and shall consist of a riser terminated at least four (4) inches above
the ground surface with two (2) half -inch valved outlets threaded for
screw -on connections, and shall be protected from damage from mobile
home wheels and shall have the ground surface around the riser pipe
graded to divert surface drainage away from the connection. Water
piping may be installed in the same trench as tight joint sewer pipe
provided the water pipe is laid on a shelf not less than twelve (12)
inches above the sewer pipe. Water piping material shall be subject
to the approval of the city.
(m) Mobile home site sewer laterals shall be provided at
each site, be trapped and vented as required by the Health Department,
terminate above grade on the same side of the site as the water con-
nection, be at least four (4) inches in diameter and be equipped with
approved leak - and fly -proof devices for coupling to mobile home
drainage systems. Such lateral sewer connection shall be protected
at its terminal with a concrete collar at least three (3) inches
thick and extending from the connection in all directions. When not
in use, the connection shall be capped with a gas -tight plug or simi-
lar device.
(n) All utilities on the site for direct service to the
use thereon shall be installed underground, and any poles located on
the Mobile Home Park shall be placed adjacent to an exterior boundary
property line. The owner or developer is responsible for complying
with the requirements of this section and shall make the necessary
arrangements as required by the serving utility companies for the
installation of such facilities.
Section 5: OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS.
No permit to operate shall be issued, and no permit to
operate shall remain valid for any mobile home park which does not
fully comply with the provisions of this section, as follows:
(1) Mobile home park areas shall be well - drained,
free from trash or litter, and maintained in a clean and sanitary
condition.
(2) Service buildings shall be adequately ventilated
and be maintained in a clean and sanitary manner. All floors in
toilet, shower and lavatory rooms which are in daily use shall be
cleaned and disinfected daily or oftener if needed to maintain in a
sanitary condition.
(3) Mobile home parks shall be maintained free from
rodents and vermin.
(4) Roadways, driveways and walkways shall be lighted
from one -half hour after sunset of every day to one -half hour before
sunrise of the succeeding day.
(5) All garbage and rubbish shall be stored in tightly
covered, water -proof containers of not less than twenty (20) gallons
capacity nor greater than thirty -five (35) gallons capacity, nor ex-
ceed sixty (60) pounds in weight unless other means of storage are
approved in writing by the Health Department. Containers shall be
provided at accessible locations not further than one hundred fifty
(150) feet from any mobile home and in no case shall there be provi-
ded fewer containers than one (1) for each two (2) mobile homes.
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Racks or platfprms or other approved arrangement shall be provided for
all garbage and refuse containers and shall be so designed and main -
tained as to prevent containers from being tipped, and to facilitate
cleaning around the containers and prevent rodent harborage. Garbage
disposal methods shall be approved by the Health Department.
(6) Occupied mobile homes shall be parked only on
mobile home sites intended for that purpose, and no dependent mobile
home may occupy a mobile home site intended to be occupied by an in-
dependent trailer and which site is provided with facilities for
servicing an independent mobile home.
(7) Every plumbing fixture and water and waste pipe
in mobile homes shall be maintained in a good sanitary working condi-
tion free from defects, leaks and obstructions.
(8) Every occupant of a mobile home shall keep in a
clean and sanitary condition that part of the site or premises which
he occupies and controls.
(9) Unoccupied trailers may be stored in the mobile
home park in an area provided for such purpose. Such area or areas
need'not provide yards and -open spaces as required for occupied trai-
lers.
Section.6: PERMITTED ACCESSORY STRUCTURES,
Only the following structures are permitted on a mobile
home site, and under the following conditions:
(1) Ramades. A ramada or roof over a trailer or any
portion thereof shall be designed and erected as a free - standing self-
supporting structure to:
(a) Withstand vertical live and dead loads im-
posed upon it and to withstand a vertical uplift or a horizontal force
from any direction of fifteen (15) pounds per square foot wind pres-
sure on a vertical projection of exposed surface of the structure, and
(b) be securely bolted or anchored to the ground,
and
(c) be constructed of approved one -hour fire re-
sistive materials or of approved slow- burning material.
(d) As to location and construction, a ramada or
any portion thereof shall have a clearance of not less than eighteen
(1 6) inches in a vertical direction and not less than six (6) inches
in a horizontal direction from a mobile home. Cross braces or struc-
tural ties shall not obstruct movement of any mobile home. The sup-
porting structural members of a ramada shall not extend more than
twelve (12) feet horizontally beyond either side of a mobile home, nor
shall any roof or eave projection extend more than thirty (30) inches
beyond the supporting structural members. No portion of a ramada shall
be attached to any mobile home.
(2) Cabanas.
(a) Cabanas may be located on only one side of a
mobile home.
(3) Awnings.
(a) An awning, or an awning drop, may be used,
provided that any resulting enclosure shall be completely open on two
(2) sides. No other type of leanto, wooden frame or any enclosure
other than the herein specified detachable awning with two (2) sides
left completely open to the ground may be erected on any mobile home
site within the mobile home park unless a building permit has been
issued therefor.
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Section 7: REMOVAL OF WHEELS.
Wheels on mobile homes shall not be removed except for emer-
gency repairs.
Section 8: REGISTRATION.
It shall be the duty of the person maintaining, operating,
conducting or carrying on any mobile home park to keep a register of
the names, addresses, date of arrival and date of departure For all
persons stopping at such mobile home park, together with any other
information which may be required by the Chief of Police, and such
register shall be a public record.
Section 9: UNFIT MOBILE HOMES.
Any mobile home which shall be found by the Health Departmen
or the city to be so damaged, decayed, dilapidated, unsanitary or
vermin infested that it creates a hazard to the health and safety of
the occupants or of the public, shall be designated as unfit for human
habitation and no owner or operator of a mobile home park shall permit
a mobile home to remain in the park when the mobile home has been
designated by the Health Department or the city as unfit for human
habitation.
Section 10: ENFORCEMENT.
The provisions of this ordinance shall be enforced by the
Building Department provided that the Health Department and the Fire
Department may also enforce such portions of this ordinance as per-
tain to their respective official jurisdictions, and for the purpose
of securing enforcement thereof, the health officer, the building in-
spector or the Fire Chief, or any of their duly authorized represen-
tatives, shall have the right and are hereby empowered to enter upon
the premises of any mobile home park to inspect the same and all ac-
commodations connected therewith.
Section 11: PENALTIES.
Anyone violating or failing to comply with any of the pro-
visions and requirements of this ordinance shall, upon conviction
thereof, be punished by a Fine in a sum not to exceed Five Hundred
Dollars ($500) or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a term not
exceeding six (6) months, and each day that anyone shall continue to
so violate or fail to comply with any provision of this ordinance
shall be considered a separate offense.
Section 12: UNCONSTITUTIONALITY CLAIM.
Should any section, sub - section, paragraph, sentence, clause
or phrase of this ordinance be declared unconstitutional or invalid
for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance.
Section 13: EFFECTIVE DATE.
This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its
adoption, and shall be certified as to its adoption by the City Clerk,
and shall be published in the Temple City Times within fifteen days
after its adoption, together with the names of the members of the
City Council voting for and against same.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ASOPTED this 4th day of May 1965.
ATTEST:
Mayor of the City of
Temple City, California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss:
CITY OF TEMPLE CITY )
I, WILLIAM WOOLLETT, JR., City Clerk of the City of Temple City,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance, being Ordinance No.
65151, was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of
the City of Temple City, held on the 20th day of April, 1965, and
was duly passed, approved and signed by the Mayor and attested by the
City Clerk at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the
4th day of May, 1965, by the following vote of the Council:
AYES: Councilmen— Dickason, Merritt, Nunamaker, Tyrell, Harker
NOES: Councilmen -None
ABSENT : Councilmen -None
City Clerk or the City
Temple City, Californi
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