§ 13-1407. Location, space and general layout.

(a)

Parks shall be of three (3) types:

(1)

Mobile home parks,

(2)

Travel trailer parks, and

(3)

Mixed mobile home and travel trailer parks.

No travel trailer shall be located in a mobile home park. No mobile home shall be located in a travel trailer park. In a mixed park, separate areas shall be reserved for mobile homes and for travel trailers; no mobile home shall be permitted in the travel trailer sector, nor travel trailer permitted in the mobile home sector.

(b)

All mobile home parks shall be located on a well-drained site, properly graded to insure rapid drainage and freedom from stagnant pools of water. Drainage shall not endanger any water supply.

(c)

The minimum area of any park shall be five (5) acres.

(d)

Intensity of development shall be limited to no more than ten (10) mobile homes per gross acre for a mobile home park and no more than fifteen (15) travel trailers per gross acre for a travel trailer park. Area used for sewerage treatment facilities shall not be included in density computations. Mobile home spaces shall be at least thirty (30) feet wide where pads are closest to driveways. Travel trailer spaces shall be at least twenty-five (25) feet wide where travel trailers are located closest to the driveway.

(e)

Every mobile home space and travel trailer space shall be clearly defined. Mobile homes and travel trailers shall be parked in such spaces that, at the nearest point, they shall be ten (10) feet from the service road, five (5) feet from the rear lot line and at least ten (10) feet from any other mobile home or travel trailer.

(f)

No mobile home or travel trailer shall be located less than twenty-five (25) feet from any public street or highway right-of-way or so that any part of such home or trailer would obstruct any roadway or walkway of such park.

(g)

No mobile home shall occupy a travel trailer space, no travel trailer shall occupy a mobile home space, and no mobile home or travel trailer shall be located in a park, unless in a designated mobile home or travel trailer space.

(h)

All mobile home spaces shall abut upon a sealed-surface driveway of not less than twenty (20) feet in width if on-street parking is prohibited and twenty-six (26) feet in width if on-street parking is permitted on one (1) side of the street only.

(i)

Driveways must have unobstructed access to a public street or highway. In mobile home parks at least two (2) clearly defined parking spaces will be provided for each space either on or adjacent to the space. In travel trailer parks at least one (1) parking space shall be provided for each space either on or adjacent to the space.

(j)

All driveways and walkways within a park shall be at least asphalt-oil-rock sealed surfaced.

(k)

In the Norman urban area, mobile home parks should abut, and have their major means of ingress and egress on, at least a secondary thoroughfare. Travel trailer parks and mixed parks in the Norman urban area shall abut, and have their major means of ingress and egress on, at least a primary thoroughfare.

(l)

All mobile home parks shall have and maintain a buffer planting strip, not less than three (3) feet in width, along all park boundaries not bordering a street. Such strip shall consist of not less than one (1) row of shrubs, spaced not more than eight (8) feet apart which grow to a height of five a (5) feet or more after one (1) full growing season and which will eventually grow to a height of not less than twelve (12) feet.

(Ord. No. 0-7475-8; Ord. No. 0-1314-14, § 9)