§ 8-29. Manufactured home community and recreational vehicle community specific provisions.

(a)

In addition to the provisions in section 8-26 herein, each owner and manager of a manufactured home community and recreational vehicle community shall comply with this section.

(b)

Parking manufactured homes prohibited generally. It is unlawful for any person to park a manufactured home within the City of Irving for longer than forty-eight (48) hours. Affirmative defenses to this subsection are:

(1)

That the manufactured home is in a manufactured home community;

(2)

That the manufactured home is parked on property where manufactured homes are manufactured or sold and where no one occupies a manufactured home as a dwelling or sleeping place; and

(3)

That the manufactured home is parked on the property as a temporary office or display unit and where no person occupies a manufactured home as a dwelling or sleeping place.

(c)

Roster of manufactured homes and recreational vehicles.

(1)

The owner, licensee, and manager of each manufactured home community shall keep a roster of all manufactured homes and recreational vehicles located within the manufactured home community or recreational vehicle community. The roster shall contain the following information:

a.

The make, model, and year of each manufactured home and recreational vehicle.

b.

The vehicle identification number and name of the owner of each manufactured home and license number and name of the owner of each recreational vehicle and the state issuing the license.

c.

Dates of each manufactured home and recreational vehicles moved into and or out of the manufactured home or recreational vehicle community.

(2)

The owner and manager shall make the roster available for inspection at all times by the city.

(d)

Driveways and roadway. The owner and manager of each manufactured home community or recreational vehicle community in the city shall provide in the manufactured home community or recreational vehicle community:

(1)

At least one (1) driveway entrance or private street entering from a public street into the manufactured home community or recreational vehicle community that is at least twenty-four (24) feet wide with a minimum turning radius of thirty (30) feet;

(2)

A properly marked fire access roadway that abuts each manufactured home plot or recreational vehicle plot and that is not less than twenty-four (24) feet wide at any point with a thirty-foot turning radius and vertical clearance of not less than fourteen (14) feet.

(3)

Service roads, fire lanes, access ways, private streets, and roadways constructed and maintained so that they are weathertight and capable of supporting the imposed load of a forty thousand (40,000) pound fire apparatus with two-thirds ( 2/3 ) of the weight on the rear axle, capable of allowing free passage of fire department apparatus. At the discretion of the fire chief, a manufactured home community or recreational vehicle community owner shall provide laboratory testing analysis with a certifying letter that the entire surface meets the requirements of this subsection.

(4)

Street name signs at each end of each block of each public and private street.

(Ord. No. 2008-9000, § 2, 10-2-08)