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ORDINANCE NO. 1894
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
AMENDING TITLE 20 OF THE NEWPORT BEACH
MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING A MOBILE HOME
PARK DISTRICT
The City Council of the City of Newport Beach DOES ORDAIN
as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 20.20 of the Newport Beach Munici-
pal Code is hereby adopted to read as follows:
Chapter:-20.20
MOBILE HOME PARKS
Sections:
20.20.010 Intent
20.20.020 Definitions
20.20.030 Criteria for Application of Zone
20.20.040 Uses Permitted
20.20.050 Removal of the Mobile Home Park Overlay Zone
20.20.010 INTENT. The Mobile Home Park Residential
Zone is hereby established as an overlay.zone to permit the
application of a mobile home zone to parcels of land devel-
oped with mobile home parks and zoned with a primary under-
lying zoning designation. The purpose of the mobile home
park zone is to designate existing mobile home parks in
appropriate locations for mobile home park uses in order
that these uses may be encouraged, maintained, and protected.
The regulations of this district are designed to achieve an
environment of stable, desirable residential character and
preserve areas or communities developed with mobile home
residential uses. Whenever reference is made in this
section or on any districting maps to MHP, this shall mean
Mobile Home Park Overlay Zone.
20.20.020 DEFINITIONS. As used in this Chapter,
the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
(a) Mobile home - "Mobile home" is a structure
transpo.rtable on a street or highway by
authorization or a permit in one or more
sections designed and equipped for human
• habitation to be used with or without a
foundation system. Mobile home includes
manufactured homes but does not include
recreation vehicles, commercial coaches,
or factory -built housing.
(b) Mobile home park - "Mobile home park" is
any area of land used primarily for the
placing, parking or storage of two or more
mobile homes for housekeeping, sleeping or
living quarters.
(c) Mobile home space - "Mobile home space" is
any area, tract of land, site, lot, pad or
portion of a mobile home park designated
• or used for the occupancy of one mobile
home.
20.20.030 CRITERIA FOR APPLICATION OF ZONE. The
City Council, in making its determination whether to apply
the MPH zone to any particular property, shall consider
the following factors in making its determination as to
whether the MHP zone is appropriate for the property:
(a) Existing zoning and General Plan designations.
(b) The age and condition of the mobile home park.
(c) The relationship of the mobile home park to
surrounding land uses.
(d) Vehicle access to the area under consideration.
(e) Site area.
(f) Site configuration.
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20.20.040 USES PERMITTED.
( a ) Mobile home parks as regulated by the State of
California.
(b)
Accessory uses
and structures
incidental
to
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the operation
of mobile home
parks such
as
recreation facilities and /or community centers
of a non - commercial nature, either public or
private, storage facilities for the use of the
mobile home park residents and any other uses
or structures that are incidental to the opera-
tion of a mobile home park.
(c) Whenever property is zoned MHP, any use permit -
ted by the underlying zoning of such property
shall not be permitted.
20.20.050 REMOVAL OF THE MOBILE HOME PARK OVERLAY ZONE.
The City Council shall not approve a zoning amendment for
any parcel, which amendment would have the effect of removing
• the MHP designation from that property, unless the following
findings have been made:
(a) That the proposed zoning is consistent with
the General Plan of the City.of Newport Beach
and all elements thereof, and in the event that
the proposed zoning is P -C, that the Planned
Community Development Plan has been submitted
and is consistent with the General Plan and
all elements thereof;
(b) That the property which is the subject of the
zoning amendment would be more appropriately
developed in accordance with uses permitted by
the underlying zoning, or proposed zoning, and
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P -C, that a Planned Community Development
Plan has been submitted and the property
would be more appropriately developed with
the uses specified in that plan;
(c) That a mobile home park phaseout plan has
been prepared, reviewed and considered and
found to be acceptable. A phaseout plan
shall not be found to be acceptable unless
it includes (1) a time schedule and method
by which existing mobile homes, cabanas,
ramadas and other substantial improvements
and tenants, are to be relocated or appro-
priately compensated; (2) methods of miti-
gating the housing impacts on tenants having
low and moderate incomes, elderly tenants
and tenants who are handicapped; (3) the
programs or other means that are to be
implemented such that the housing impacts
on those described in (2), above, are
mitigated. Fo.r purposes of this provision,
"low and moderate incomes" shall be defined
in accordance with the provisions of the
Housing Element of the City of Newport Beach.
SECTION 2. This Ordinance shall be published once in
the official newspaper of the City and the same shall be effective
thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption.
This Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the 14th day of
December, 1981 and was adopted on the 11th day of January, 1982 by
the following vote, to wit:
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ATTEST:
Ci C er
ty 1 k
AYES, COUNCIL MEMBERS Heather,
Hummel, Hart, Maurer, Plummer, Cox,
Strauss
NOES, COUNCIL MEMBERS None
ABSENT COUNCIL MEMBERS None
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