§ 26.04.120. Park and camp layouts.

(a)

Area — Manufactured home parks shall contain the minimum area as required by the Unified Zoning Code, Title 28 of the Code of the City of Wichita. Trailer camps shall contain a minimum of one thousand five hundred square feet for each camping space.

(b)

Setbacks — All mobile homes and manufactured homes shall comply with the setbacks and clearances as set forth for manufactured home parks in Article III, Section III.B(10) of the Unified Zoning Code, Title 28 of the Code of the City of Wichita.

Exceptions to accessory structure setback requirements.

1.

Accessory structures of noncombustible construction which do not exceed one hundred square feet in area and have no electrical power may be located closer than three feet to the main use structure or other appropriately located accessory structures on the same manufactured or mobile home park lot. Such accessory structures must be located at least ten feet from main use structures on any adjoining lot and at least six feet from any accessory structure on any adjoining lot.

2.

Accessory structures exceeding one hundred square feet in area, of combustible construction or with electrical power may be located as close as six feet to the main use structure and as close as three feet to other appropriately located accessory structures on the same manufactured or mobile home park lot. Such accessory structures must be located at least ten feet from all structures on any adjoining lot. If an accessory structure greater than one hundred square feet in area is open on all sides and is constructed of noncombustible materials, such accessory structure may be closer than six feet to the main use structure on the same lot or may even abut the main use structure on the same lot. For such accessory structure, the minimum separation to an adjoining lot structure which is also constructed of noncombustible materials may be reduced from ten feet to six feet by the superintendent of central inspection.

All recreational vehicles shall be so located as to maintain a set back no less than ten feet from any side or rear boundary line when such boundary is not common to any public street or highway right-of-way.

(c)

Roadway and Sidewalks — All manufactured home spaces, mobile home spaces or recreational vehicle spaces shall abut upon a park or camp roadway, with no manufactured home, mobile home or recreational vehicle having its direct access from a public street or highway. Roadway widths shall be measured back to back of curbs for new manufactured home parks developed or expanded after January 1, 2007, Roadways where no parking is permitted shall not be less than twenty-four feet. When parking is permitted on one side of the roadway, roadways shall not be less than thirty feet. When parking is permitted on both sides of the roadways, roadways shall not be less than forty-two feet. It shall be the responsibility of the park operator to post the roadways where parking is prohibited and enforce the limitations. Sidewalks within a park or camp shall be installed as required by the city sidewalk ordinance (Ordinance No. 36-327). All roadways shall have unobstructed access to a public street or highway, with all dead-end roadways being provided an adequate vehicular turnaround (cul-de-sac) with a diameter of not less than seventy feet, or shall have an alternate turnaround area such as hammerheads, etc., as may be approved by the planning department as providing service equal to the cul-de-sac. All park and camp roadways shall be surfaced with concrete, asphaltic concrete, asphalt or other comparable surfacing.

(d)

Storage Lockers — A storage locker of at least one hundred twenty cubic feet shall be provided for each manufactured home or mobile home space. Storage lockers shall be designed in a manner that will enhance the park and shall be constructed of suitable weather-resistant materials.

(e)

Off-Street Parking — Surfaced off-street parking shall be provided for each manufactured home, mobile home and recreational vehicle space and any additional parking as required by the Unified Zoning Code, Title 28 of the Code of the City of Wichita. No portion of the park roadways shall be used to provide the required off-street parking.

(f)

Identification of Roadways and Spaces — All park and camp roadways and manufactured home, mobile home or recreational vehicle spaces shall be clearly identified with letters or numerals of a light-reflecting material. Such letters or numerals are to be a minimum of two inches in height. Such identification shall be in complete agreement with the plan prepared under Section 26.04.070.

(g)

Recreation Space — Each manufactured home park or expanded nonconforming manufactured home park shall devote at least eight percent of its gross area to recreation space for the use and enjoyment of the occupants of the park. Each such recreational space shall not be less than ten thousand square feet of land area. Required setbacks and clearances and the roadways and off-street parking spaces, shall not be considered as recreational space.

(h)

Screening — Screening of new or expanded manufactured home parks or expanded nonconforming manufactured home parks must be provided as required by the Unified Zoning Code, Title 28 of the Code of the City of Wichita.

(i)

Lighting — All park and camp roadways shall be lighted at night with seven-thousand-lumen 1 amps at a maximum interval of two hundred feet located approximately twenty feet from the ground, or friendship lights (gas or electric), with lighting equal to forty watts, and lighted automatically from dusk to dawn, shall be provided for each mobile home space adjacent to the park roadways, or at a maximum interval of seventy-five feet adjacent to camp roadways.

(j)

Landscaping — Landscaping of new or expanded manufactured home parks or expanded nonconforming manufactured home parks must provide required landscaping in accordance with Chapter 10.32 of the Code of the City of Wichita.

(Ord. No. 43-648 § 13; Ord. No. 47-050, § 17, 6-2-06)