Mobile dwellings.
Montgomery City Code, App. C, art. VI, § 10.3
in effectSec. 10.3. - Mobile dwellings.
The regulations and requirements in this section are designed to ensure protection of health, safety and welfare of both the residents of mobile dwellings and residents of neighboring property.
General requirements. No mobile dwelling shall be occupied for dwelling purposes unless the same is located in a mobile dwelling park or subdivision; except, however, that an individual mobile dwelling shall be allowed as a use permitted on appeal in Agr-1 and Agr-2 zones. Mobile dwellings may be used as accessory structures provided that they are not used for sleeping purposes, and that they meet all requirements of this ordinance for the appropriate use.
No mobile dwelling shall be admitted to any park unless it meets all code requirements of the City of Montgomery.
No mobile dwelling park can be operated until a permit to operate the park has been obtained from the building department.
No building permit shall be issued for construction of a mobile dwelling park and the board of adjustment shall not issue a special exception involving a mobile dwelling park, except upon a favorable or conditionally favorable report from the planning commission. Prior to issuing a favorable report the planning commission may seek the advice and recommendations of the department of planning and development. Where conditions are attached by the planning commission, they shall be included as a part of the building permit. If special exception is involved, the board of adjustment shall grant such exception with the conditions attached by the planning commission, but the board may add conditions in granting approval.
The following information shall be submitted to the planning commission for its evaluation by the person, firm, or organization seeking to develop the land in question:
a. Area and dimensions of the proposed park.
b. Location of all drives, and mobile dwelling layout.
c. Location of water and sewer lines; water supply, and sewage disposal areas.
d. A preliminary drainage plan for the park prepared by a registered engineer.
e. Location and dimension of all buffers, office structures, and recreational areas and open spaces.
f. A traffic analysis, showing the effect of the proposed mobile dwelling park on neighborhood streets.
Development standards. Except where specified, the development standards which follow apply to mobile dwelling parks and mobile dwelling subdivisions.
a. Buffers:
(1) Each boundary of a mobile dwelling park or subdivision must be at least 100 feet from any residential property or industrial property line located outside the park or subdivision, unless separated therefrom by a natural or artificial barrier.
(2) A strip of land at least 25 feet in width shall be maintained as a landscape area abutting all mobile dwelling park or subdivision property lines.
b. Utilities. Each mobile dwelling lot shall have attachments for waste disposal and water supply facilities, properly connected to an approved method of sewage disposal and water supply.
c. Required open space:
(1) Each mobile dwelling park shall provide land for open space, which may be used for recreational purposes but which may not be used for parking or for accessory structures. Such open space shall total at least 13 percent of the gross land area of the park. This requirement does not apply to mobile dwelling subdivisions.
(2) Mobile dwelling subdivisions greater than five acres in total area shall include open space equal to ten percent of the total area. Such open space may be used for recreational purposes but may not be used for parking or accessory structures. Provision shall be made, by covenant or other means satisfactory to the city attorney, to ensure that such open space shall be preserved and maintained for the use of the residents of the subdivision, without expense to the City of Montgomery.
d. Additional requirements:
(1) A mobile dwelling park shall consist of not less than ten contiguous acres of land. This requirement does not apply to mobile dwelling subdivisions.
(2) No mobile dwelling park office or service building shall be closer to a public street right-of-way line than 80 feet.
(3) No additions shall be made to a mobile dwelling except a canopy and/or porch on three sides, or an addition made by the mobile dwelling manufacturer.
(4) All mobile dwellings shall be anchored against wind or storm damage via a method approved by the building department.
(5) The space under a mobile home dwelling shall not be used for storage.
(6) At least 200 cubic feet of enclosed storage area shall be provided for each mobile dwelling lot at a distance of not more than 100 feet from the particular lot the storage space is intended to serve. This requirement does not apply to mobile dwelling subdivisions.
(7) All mobile dwellings shall be placed on pads approved by the building department, except in the case where the mobile dwelling wheels are sunk in the ground and the mobile dwelling is at ground level.
(8) All mobile dwelling parks must be divided into lots. Regulations governing lot sizes and spacing requirements are contained in article VII of this ordinance.
e. Traffic and circulation:
(1) Access to the park or subdivision shall not require intensive use of minor established residential streets.
(2) All access driveways and interior streets of mobile dwelling parks must be at least 30 feet in width. Requirements contained in the subdivision regulations of the City of Montgomery shall govern in the case of mobile dwelling subdivision.
(3) All access driveways and interior streets of mobile dwelling, parks, and all walkways, shall be hard surfaced and lighted at night. This requirement does not apply to mobile dwelling subdivisions.
f. Single mobile dwellings. Where single mobile dwellings are permitted by the board of adjustment in agr-1 and agr-2 districts they shall be subject to the following regulations:
(1) Such mobile dwellings shall be in compliance with all codes of the City of Montgomery.
(2) The minimum lot size shall be 10,000 sq. ft., with a 100-foot minimum width.
(3) The lot must have access to a public road.
(4) A permit must be obtained from the building department. Such permit shall remain in force for two years and shall be renewable upon application to the building department. In the event the property on which the mobile dwelling is located is rezoned to a classification other than agr-1 and agr-2, the mobile dwelling shall then be governed by the regulations for lawful nonconforming uses, as contained in article I, section 6 of this ordinance.
(5) The board of adjustment shall add such additional requirements in individual cases as may be deemed by the board to be appropriate.
(Ord. No. 31-73)
Source: City of Montgomery, Alabama, Code of Ordinances (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/al/montgomery/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=APXCZO_ARTVIGEPR_S10.3MODWFetched: 11/8/2026