§ 34-238. Recreational vehicle parks

(a) General requirements. A recreational vehicle park shall meet the following general requirements:

(1) It shall be primarily for recreational use by persons with transportable recreational housing, with appropriate accessory uses and structures.

(2) The land on which it is developed shall be under unified control and shall be planned and developed as a whole in a single development operation or programmed series of development operations for recreational vehicles and related uses and facilities. Subsequent subdivision of lots or conveyance of sites to individual owners by any means is prohibited.

(3) The principal and accessory uses and structures shall be substantially related to the character of the development in the context of the district of which it is a part.

(4) The park shall be developed according to comprehensive and detailed plans that include streets, utilities, lots and building sites.

(5) The park shall have a program for provision, maintenance, and operation of all areas, improvements and facilities for the common use of all or some of the occupants of the park, but will not be provided, operated or maintained at general public expense.

(b) Allowable uses. The allowable uses in a recreational vehicle park include the following:

(1) Recreational vehicles.

(2) Convenience establishments for the sale or rental of supplies or for the provision of services for the satisfaction of daily or frequent needs of campers within the park. These establishments may provide groceries, ice, sundries, bait, fishing equipment, self-service laundry equipment, bottled gas and other similar items needed by users of the park. These establishments shall be designed to serve only the needs of the campers within the park and shall not, including their parking areas, occupy more than five percent of the area of the park, and shall not be located to attract patronage from outside the grounds, nor have adverse effects on surrounding land uses.

(c) Site design requirements. The following site design requirements shall be met:

(1) The minimum land area for a recreational vehicle park shall be eight acres.

(2) The maximum density for a recreational vehicle park shall be 18 spaces per gross acre. Storage spaces shall be included in the density calculation.

(3) Individual spaces shall take access to internal streets and shall not take direct access to adjoining public rights-of-way.

(4) Access to the recreational vehicle park shall be from a collector or arterial roadway.

(5) Internal streets shall provide safe and convenient access to spaces and appropriate park facilities. Alignment and gradient shall be property adapted to topography. Construction and maintenance shall provide a well-drained surface that is of adequate width to accommodate anticipated traffic.

(6) Camping spaces shall be located in relation to internal streets to provide for convenient vehicular ingress and egress if the space is intended for use by wheeled units. Where back-in or back-out spaces are used, appropriate maneuvering room shall be provided in the adjacent internal street and within the space.

(7) Where spaces are to be used exclusively for erection of tents on the ground, provision for vehicular access onto such spaces shall not be required, but parking areas shall be located within 100 feet, except in circumstances in which providing such vehicular accessibility would result in excessive destruction of trees or other vegetation, or where it would be impractical to provide such parking areas within such distances for particularly desirable campsites.

(8) Spaces shall be related to pedestrian ways and principal destinations within the park to provide for convenient pedestrian access to such destinations by the pedestrian systems.

(9) No minimum dimensions are specified for spaces, but each shall provide the clearances specified herein, and the boundaries of each space shall be clearly indicated.

(10) Spaces for independent units shall be located within 200 feet by normal pedestrian routes of toilet, washroom and bath facilities.

(11) Spaces for self-contained units, operating as such, may not be located more than 400 feet by normal pedestrian routes from toilet, washroom and bath facilities.

(Ord. of 7-20-1994, § 3.07)