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19.18.050 Senior mobile home park overlay zone.

(A) "Senior mobile home park" is a mobile home park in the city located within the MHP mobile home park overlay district in which at least eighty percent of the spaces are occupied by or intended for occupancy by at least one person who is age fifty-five or older.

(B) Coterminous with the existing zoning for mobile home park residential is the senior mobile home park overlay zone (MHP-S).

(C) Mobile home units in a mobile home park in the senior mobile home overlay zone shall be occupied only consistent with the definition of senior mobile home park in subsection A of this section so that at least eighty percent of spaces and mobile home units are rented and occupied by at least one person who is age fifty-five or older. The age restriction stated herein does not apply to or affect ownership of mobile home units, but is an occupancy requirement.

(D) The signage, advertising, park rules and regulations, and leases for spaces or units in mobile home parks in the senior mobile home park overlay zone shall state the park is a senior park, or "housing for older persons," which at a minimum is consistent with the definition in subsection A of this section.

(E) Senior mobile home park owners and/or their management personnel shall submit biennial verification of occupancy to confirm their status as a senior mobile home park, through survey or affidavit, in a form to be determined by the city planning director, which shall be consistent with the survey or affidavit that satisfies the Federal Fair Housing Act regulations and which the city planning director, or designee, shall review and certify.

(F) Failure to submit the verification required by this section or failure of the verification to confirm a mobile home park within the senior mobile home park overlay zone meets the definition in subsection A of this section shall constitute a violation of the city's zoning ordinance, subject to enforcement in the manner and form provided for in the American Canyon Municipal Code.