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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021-09-27 21-349 ORDINANCE21-349 09/27/2021 CITY COUNCIL ACTION Council Meeting Date: September 27, 2021 Item No: 21-349 Responsible Dept: Legal Action Requested: Ordinance Map/Lot: Title, Ordinance Amending Chapter 186, Mobile Home Parks, To Provide Certain Protections For Mobile Home Park Residents. Summary This Ordinance would enact new requirements for maintaining mobile home parks and applies to both owners and operators of those parks. Among other items, mobile home park owners and operators would now be required to maintain common areas, lighting, sewage disposal systems, utilities, mailboxes, and provide for the removal of garbage that is incidental to mobile home park occupancy, as well as the disposal of brush, leaves, and other natural debris. This ordinance would also require the maintenance of driveways if the owner or operator provides driveways; it also provides for the removal of brush, leaves, and other natural debris from leased lots. Unlike the other provisions, these two requirements may be amended by a written lease between the mobile home park owner and the tenant. Violations of this ordinance would be subject to the penalties contained in Title 30-A, Section 4552 of the Maine Revised Statutes. Committee Action Committee: Business and Economic Development Action: Recommended for Passage Staff Comments & Approvals City Manager Introduced for: First Reading Meeting Date: 09/08/2021 For: 5 L'F - City Solicitor Against: 0 Finance Director 21-349 09/27/2021 CITY COUNCIL ORDINANCE Date: September 27, 2021 Assigned to Councilor: Schaefer ORDINANCE, Amending Chapter 186, Mobile Home Parks, To Provide Certain Protections For Mobile Home Park Residents. WHEREAS, mobile homes and mobile home parks are an important means of housing in the City; WHEREAS, Bangor residents have expressed concerns about the degree and manner of maintenance in the mobile home parks in which they live; WHEREAS, the City's ordinances require that certain facilities and infrastructure be provided as part of any development but are vague on any requirements to maintain such facilities or infrastructure; WHEREAS, the health and welfare of the residents of Bangor will benefit by specifically requiring mobile home park owners to maintain their facilities and infrastructure; BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGOR AS FOLLOWS, THAT Chapter 186 of the Code of the City of Bangor is amended as follows: & 186-3 Specific Maintenance Responsibilities All owners or operators of mobile home parks within the City are subject to the requirements of this Section and may each be held liable for any violation hereof. In addition to the aeneral maintenance requirements of Section 186-2(A), all owners and operators of mobile home parks shall, with regard to any mobile home park that they either own or operate, shall: A. Maintain all common areas of the mobile home park in a clean and safe condition and provide access to common areas, including improvements and buildings, at reasonable times for the benefit of the mobile home park residents and their guests; B. Maintain street lights, entry lights and common area lighting, if any, in good working order; C. Maintain in Good workina order all electrical,, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilation and air conditioning units and appliances and recreational facilities that the mobile home park furnishes; D. Maintain in good working order all driveways or parking areas on leased lots when those driveways or parking areas were either (1) furnished by the mobile home park, or (2) in existence at the time that the tenancy was created. This provision may be amended by a written lease between the mobile home park and the tenant if 21-349 09/27/2021 that lease allows for the tenant to maintain said driveways or parking areas. E. Maintain the existing sewage disposal systems and ensure that such are adequate to meet the needs of all the residents in the mobile home park; F. Maintain and protect all utilities provided to a mobile home and keep water and sewer lines in good working condition. This maintenance responsibility extends to that point where the normal mobile home utility hook-ups connect to those provided by the mobile home park owner or operator or utility company; G. Maintain in a safe and secure location individual mailboxes for the residents; H. Provide for the removal of aarbaae, rubbish, and other waste incidental to the occupancy of a mobile home park; and I. Provide, at least twice yearly with one occurrence being after the final spring snowmelt and one occurrence being after leaf drop in the fall, for the removal of brush, leaves, and other natural debris from leased lots. This provision may be amended by a written lease between the mobile home park and the tenant if that lease allows for the tenant to maintain the leased premises; and I Provide, at least twice yearly and at times corresponding with those in paragraph I above, for the disposal of brush, leaves, and other natural debris from leased lots, whether the removal was done by the mobile home park owner or operator, a tenant, or anyone else. 186-4 Violations In addition to any other legal or equitable remedies available, violations of this Chapter are subject to the penalties and enforcement provisions contained in Title 30-A, Section 4552. Additions are underlined, deletions strtrel( thFeugr. IN CITY COUNCIL SEPTEMBER 27,2021 COrd 21-349 First Reading CITY CLERK IN CITY COUNCIL OCTOBER 13,2021 COrd 21-349 Motion made and seconded for Passage Vote: 7—0 Councilors Voting Yes: Davitt,Fournier,Hawes,Nichols, Schaefer, Sprague,Tremble Councilors Voting No: None Passed CIT CLE