Zoning Ordinance

Section 1.  Purpose

This district is intended to provide an alternative to 
conventional housing by permitting high density mobile home 
development in a park designed for such development and 
under single ownership or control.

Section 2.  Use Regulations

a.	Permitted Use.  In the RMP district, permitted uses are 
as follows:

	1.	Mobile homes and those uses customarily associated 
with a mobile home park that are essential to its 
operation and maintenance.

Section 3.  Area, Setback, and Height Requirements

In the RMP district, the following requirements shall apply 
to all buildings and structures, unless otherwise specified 
in this Ordinance.

a.	Park Area.  The mobile home park shall not be less than 
two (2) acres in size and shall be so dimensioned and 
related as to facilitate efficient design and 
management.

b.	Setbacks.  Building setbacks from all property lines 
which are adjacent to public streets shall not be less 
than twenty (20) feet.  Building setbacks from all other 
property lines which form the perimeter of the mobile 
home park shall not be less than fifteen (15) feet.

c.	Height.  A building or structure shall not exceed thir-
ty-five (35) feet in height.

d.	Lot Area.  The minimum lot area or space devoted to each 
mobile home shall not be less than three thousand 
(3,000) square feet.

e.	Lot Width. The minimum width of a lot or space devoted 
to each mobile home shall not be less than thirty (30) 
feet.

f.	Spacing.  The minimum side to side and end to end 
spacing between mobile homes and/or permitted buildings 
or structures shall not be less than twenty (20) feet.

Section 4.  General Standards and Requirements

A mobile home park plan shall be submitted to the City 
Manager in accordance with the procedures established in 
this Ordinance and meeting the
following standards and requirements before the issuance of 
a building permit.

a.	Plot Plan.  A plot plan shall be drawn, on a 24"x 36" 
reproducible sheet, at a scale which all necessary 
details may be clearly shown.  In addition, the 
following shall be shown:

	1.	Name of the mobile home park, ownership, name of 
developer, scale, north arrow, date, and location 
map showing the location of the park.

	2.	All corners of the development shall be tied by 
course and distance to established City or County 
and U. S. Government Survey Monuments, and the Plot 
Plan must include a description of the corner 
markers and indicate how the bearings were 
determined.

	3.	Tract boundary lines, rights-of-way lines of 
streets, easements and other rights-of-way, with 
accurate dimensions and bearings on each line and 
the radius, arc, length, semi-tangent, and central 
angle for each curve.

	4.	Rights-of-way width of each private street and paved 
width, location, dimensions and purpose of any ease-
ments, fully described with the development.

	5.	Identification of each trailer lot or space by 
letter and number.

	6.	Location and description of monuments, lot corners 
and other survey points in place.

	7.	Reference to recorded plats of adjoining land by 
record name, date, book and page number.

	8.	Certification by a registered land surveyor to the 
effect that the Plot Plan represents a survey made 
or certified by him and that all the monuments shown 
thereon actually exist and their location, size and 
materials are correctly shown.

	9.	The Plot Plan shall show the existing contours and 
proposed finish grade contours for the entire 
development.  The existing contours for the adjacent 
property and streets shall be shown to the extent 
required to indicate the existence and solution of 
drainage problems.  The contour interval shall be 
selected with regards to the relative slope of the 
land, but in no event exceed two (2) feet.

   10.	The applicant shall provide the City of Roswell six 
(6) prints of the Plot Plan at the time of 
application of a Trailer Park within the Zone 
District.  After final
		approval of the Plot Plan, the applicant shall 
furnish the City two (2) final prints of his 
development as finally approved.

b.	Site Conditions.  Conditions of soil, ground water 
level, drainage, and topography shall not create hazards 
to the property or to the health, safety, and welfare of 
the occupants.  The site shall not be exposed to 
objectionable smoke, noise, odor, or other adverse 
influences.

c.	Fencing and Landscaping.  The mobile home park shall be 
effectively screened to protect the park's occupants 
against intrusion or adverse environmental conditions 
and to protect adjacent properties against possible 
adverse effects of the park by placing, at the lot lines 
which form the perimeter of the park, either a solid 
fence or wall made of brick, masonry, stone, or wood, no 
less than six (6) feet in height; or an irrigated and 
maintained landscaped area planted of a density 
equalling the opacity and height of a solid fence or 
wall; or any combination thereof.

d.	Access to the Site.  Direct vehicular access to the park 
shall be provided by means of an abutting collector or 
arterial street.  Vehicular access shall not be provided 
through an alley.

e.	Design of Entrance and Exits.  Entrances and exits shall 
be designed for safe and convenient movement of traffic 
into and out of the park, and to minimize marginal 
friction with free movement of traffic on adjacent 
streets.  A minimum of two (2) access points shall be 
provided and all traffic into and out of the park shall 
be through such entrances and exits.  No entrance or 
exit shall require a turn at an acute angle for vehicles 
moving in the direction intended, and radii of curbs and 
pavement at intersections shall be a minimum of 
twenty-five (25) feet to facilitate easy turning 
movements for vehicles with trailers attached.  No 
object or material impediment to visibility shall be 
created, placed or maintained which obscures the view of 
an approaching driver in the right lane of the street.  
No entrance or exit shall be located nearer than thirty 
(30) feet from any street intersection, or ten (10) feet 
from the radius point, whichever is more.

f.	Internal Streets.  Streets shall be provided in the park 
where necessary to furnish principal traffic-ways for 
safe and convenient access to all spaces and to 
facilities for common use by park occupants.  Streets 
shall be privately owned, constructed, and maintained.

g.	Street Alignment and Gradient.  Street alignment and 
gradient shall be properly adapted to topography, to 
safe movement of types of traffic anticipated, and to 
satisfactorily control surface and ground water.

h.	Street Surfacing and Maintenance.  A sound all weather 
driving surface consisting of a minimum of a four (4) 
inch base and one and one-half (1 1/2) inch of asphalt 
shall be provided and maintained.  It shall be kept free 
from mud, dust, or standing surface water.

i.	Street Widths.  Streets shall be of adequate width to 
accommodate the anticipated parking and traffic load and 
in all cases shall meet the following minimum size 
standards:

	1.	Ten (10) feet per moving lane.

	2.	Seven (7) feet per on-street parallel parking lane, 
where provided.

	3.	Two (2) feet additional for pedestrian use per side, 
if sidewalks are not provided.

	4.	Street widths, at access points where traffic enters 
or leaves the park, shall be of sufficient size to 
permit free movement from or to the stream of 
traffic on the adjacent public streets, and no 
parking shall be permitted which in any way 
interferes with such free movement.

j.	Parking Space.  Parking spaces shall be provided in 
sufficient number to meet the needs of the occupants and 
their guests without interference with the normal 
movement of traffic.  Parking spaces shall be provided 
in the ratio of one off-street parking space per lot 
with minimum dimensions of 9' x 18' for each space and 
one additional off-street parking space of 9' x 18' for 
each four lots to provide for guest parking, for two car 
tenants and for delivery and service vehicles.

k.	Driveways.  Driveways shall be provided on the site 
where necessary for convenient access to service 
entrances of buildings, to delivery and collection 
points for refuse and other materials.  Driveways 
serving a single facility or single mobile home lot 
shall have a minimum full-width of eight (8) feet or ten 
(10) feet where it is also used as a walk.

l.	Tiedown and Footings.  Each mobile home shall have a 
minimum of four roof and frame ties.  The tiedown 
components used, including anchor systems, must be able 
to withstand at least four thousand eight hundred 
(4,800) pounds of pressure without failure.  Screw 
augers, expanding anchors or weight of the mobile home 
shall be installed under the supporting steel frame.  
Maximum pier spacing of ten feet, with the end piers 
being no farther than five (5) feet from the ends of the 
unit shall be required.  Piers shall be constructed of 
standard 8" x 8" x 16" celled concrete blocks placed 
over a footing.  Footings shall be constructed of solid 
concrete with minimum dimensions of 16" x 16" x 18", as 
set forth in the New Mexico statutes for mobile homes.

m.	Management Offices and Common Facilities.  The structure 
or structures containing the management office and other 
common facilities shall be conveniently located for the 
uses intended.  Consolidation of management, laundry, 
recreation and other common facilities in a single 
building and location is acceptable if the single 
location will adequately serve all the mobile home lots. 
 All structures shall meet the requirements of the 
Uniform Building Code.

n.	Recreation Area.  Not less than five (5) percent of the 
gross site area shall be devoted to open space for 
recreational purposes.  The open space area should have 
a central location.

o.	Pedestrian Circulation.  The pedestrian circulation 
system shall be designed, constructed, and maintained 
for safe and convenient movement from all lots to 
principal destinations within the park and, if 
appropriate, shall provide access to pedestrian ways 
leading to destinations outside the park.  Streets may 
be used as pedestrian ways except where concentration of 
either pedestrian or vehicular traffic appears likely to 
lead to congestion or hazards.

p.	Exterior Lighting.  Exterior lighting shall be required 
and shall be so located and shielded as to prevent 
direct illumination of sleeping area within the park and 
any contiguous property of a more restrictive zoning 
district.

q.	Type of Residential Occupancy.  No lot shall be rented 
for any use other than residential in a mobile home 
park. No mobile unit shall be admitted to any mobile 
home park unless it conforms to the standards, by 
definition, as set forth in this ordinance.