2026.07.06 ORD 2026-549 Replace Zoning and Land Use Ordinance

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Created: 2025-05-22 16:40:53 [EST] (Supp. No. 36) Page 140 of 198 (2) All manufactured home parks with ten or more units must have a shelter to provide a safe place within the park for all residents to assemble in case of severe weather conditions, such as tornadoes, high winds, and floods. Such shelter shall be constructed in accordance with chapter 1370 of the state building code. Such shelter shall be constructed within 500 yards of each manufactured home. (3) All manufactured home parks must be adequately drained so that no home, building, roadway or public place is made unusable or unsafe by standing stormwater at any time other than a 100-year, or greater, storm event. (4) All manufactured homes located in the park must be served by an internal road network owned and maintained by the park owner. Such roads must be constructed, as a minimum, in accordance with the standards for an urban minor street found in chapter 66 of this Code, except that the roadway width may be reduced to 24 feet, face-of-curb to face-of-curb where no on-street parking is allowed. In accordance with Minn. Stat. § 327.27, subd. 2a, all private streets meeting the standard defined herein shall be posted with a speed limit not to exceed 30 miles per hour. Speed limits on private streets existing prior to the adoption of the ordinance from which this chapter is derived, and not meeting the above standard, shall be ten miles per hour. (5) All streets and roadways located in a manufactured home park shall be maintained in a safe and useable condition by the park's owner for emergency vehicles at all times. (6) Street lighting shall be provided within the park by the park's owner. As a minimum, the street lighting shall illuminate all entrances to the park and the intersections of all roadways within the park. (7) Off-street parking shall be provided within the park in accordance with the standards for apartment housing found in section 90-252. (8) The addresses of all lots within a manufactured home park shall be clearly marked on the lot with a minimum of six-inch-tall numbers, made of reflective material or artificially illuminated, and clearly visible from the street. (9) A minimum of ten percent of the net buildable area in the park must be set aside as recreational space for the tenants and homeowners in the park. A minimum of one acre of park space is required for each manufactured home park, improved with children's playground equipment, and constructed, installed, and maintained by the park's owner in accordance with the standards of the equipment manufacturer and the consumer products safety commission. (10) Solid waste removal must be provided for in the park in accordance with chapter 62 of this Code, and all waste storage facilities shall be fenced, screened and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. The park owner shall ensure that no waste matter, rubbish, or refuse is allowed to accumulate within the park, and that the park is kept free of vermin and rodents. (11) Manufactured home parks shall be landscaped in accordance with the standards set for apartment housing found in section 90-236. (12) Manufactured home parks will be screened from adjacent properties and public rights-of-way in accordance with section 90-236, except that up to 20 percent of the perimeter, including access roads, may be open to view from adjacent property and the public road right-of-way. (13) All electrical, telephone, cable television, and other such utility service lines shall be constructed underground. (14) The principal entrance to all manufactured home parks must be located adjacent to a county or state highway, a city collector street or a frontage road serving such a highway or collector street. (15) All manufactured home parks must be identified at all entrances with a sign, not less than ten square feet and not more than 20 square feet, marked with the name of the park and a current telephone