[Ord. No. 645, §5]
Public campgrounds shall be required to comply with requirements contained herein.
[Ord. No. 1097 §§1 — 2, 4-19-1994; Ord. No. 1616 §1, 6-4-2002]
"Traveler" shall mean a person or persons seeking overnight camping privileges in a public campground for travelers. No traveler shall be permitted to occupy a public campground or combination of campgrounds in the City for more than ninety (90) days within any six (6) month period. The intent of this Section is to provide for vacation, recreational and leisure oriented use of campground facilities and to prohibit any establishment of residency.
[Ord. No. 645, §5]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain or operate within the city any public campground for travelers unless such person shall first obtain a permit therefor. A permit shall expire on December 31 of each year and there shall be an annual permit charge of not less than twenty-five dollars or such an amount in excess of twenty-five dollars as may be designated by the board of aldermen for each public campground for travelers. This fee shall be adjusted on an annual basis, effective January 1 of the year in question, to reflect increases, if any, in the November offering next preceding this January 1 of the Cost of Living Index for all urban consumers for the St. Louis area published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor, as compared to the previous November offering, using the period 1967 = 100 as the base period. All such computation of increases made as provided herein shall be rounded to the nearest fifty-cent figure, and shall not be further adjusted during the course of the year in question, during the next year in question when such further adjustments, if warranted as provided herein, shall be made.
(b) 
Applications for a permit to construct and operate a public campground for travelers shall be issued by the board of aldermen of the city. Application shall be in writing, signed by the person who will own, maintain or operate the proposed public campground for travelers and shall contain the following information:
(1) 
The name and address of the persons who will own, maintain and operate the proposed public campground for travelers.
(2) 
The location and legal description of the public campground for travelers.
(3) 
A complete plot plan of the public campground for travelers showing compliance with all of the provisions of this article and chapter 23.
(4) 
Plans and specifications of all buildings and other improvements to be constructed within the public campground for travelers.
(5) 
Such other and further information as may be requested by the board of aldermen to enable it to determine if the proposed public campground for travelers will comply with all requirements.
The application and all accompanying plans and specifications shall be filed in triplicate. The board of aldermen shall investigate the applicant and inspect the proposed plans and specifications.
Upon a finding of a good moral character of the applicant and compliance with all ordinances and statutes, and after satisfying itself that the public campground for travelers is reasonable and proper in its proposed location, the board of aldermen shall approve the application and upon completion of the public campground for travelers according to the plans submitted, they shall issue the permit hereunder.
(c) 
The permit shall be conspicuously posted in the office or on the premises of the public campground for travelers at all times.
[Ord. No. 645, §5]
The board of aldermen of the city may revoke any permit to maintain and operate a public campground for travelers when the permittee has been found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction of violating any provisions of this article or chapter 23. After such conviction, the permit may be reissued if the circumstances leading to conviction have been remedied and evidence given that the public campground for travelers will be maintained and operated in full compliance with the law.
[Ord. No. 645, §5]
It shall be the duty of the permittee to keep a register containing a record of all automobiles and occupants located within the public campground for travelers. The register shall contain the following information:
(a) 
Name and address of each occupant.
(b) 
The make, model and year of all automobiles.
(c) 
License number and owner of each automobile.
(d) 
The state issuing the license.
(e) 
The dates of arrival and departure of each occupant.
The public campground for travelers shall keep the register available for inspection at all times by law-enforcement officers, public health officials and other officials whose duties necessitate acquisition of the information contained in the register. The register records shall not be destroyed for a period of three years following the date of departure.
[Ord. No. 645, §5]
Maximum density shall be no more than fifteen campsites per acre. Minimum size of campsite shall be two thousand square feet (not including streets). The minimum size of a campground shall be twenty acres or more.
[Ord. No. 645, §5.; Ord. No. 1616 §2, 6-4-2002]
Street minimum construction shall be of gravel or stone which has been compacted and has a minimum of six (6) inches in thickness.
Street width shall be as follows: One-way minimum street width, twelve (12) feet; two-way minimum street width, twenty-five (25) feet; minimum turning radius at inside turn shall be thirty (30) feet.
[Ord. No. 1616 §2, 6-4-2002]
(a) 
The Planning and Zoning Commission and Board of Aldermen may, under the special use permit provisions, give consideration to outdoor storage areas.
(b) 
Outdoor storage areas shall be screened from public view through use of earth berms, fencing or landscaping or a combination thereof. Fencing and landscaping used for screening of outdoor storage areas shall be decorative in nature and maintained in an acceptable manner. Decorative fences do not include chain link fences, with or without slats. Outdoor storage areas shall have a minimum surface covering of six (6) inches of rolled gravel.
(a) 
The Planning and Zoning Commission and Board of Aldermen may, under the special use permit provisions, give consideration to applications for parking or storage of recreational vehicles, campers and recreational trailers on behalf of the owner or operator of same within public campgrounds.
(b) 
General Provisions.
(1) 
The owner or operator of the land on which the off-site parking or storage activity is being conducted shall be the applicant, not the owner or operator of the recreational vehicles, campers and recreational trailers being stored on same.
(2) 
Consideration criteria will be reviewed a minimum of annually, and if an inspection of property and the recreational vehicles, campers and recreational trailers located thereon results in a determination that any standards are lacking, City staff may place the applicant on notice and request review of the off-site parking authority, with the possible outcome of off-site parking authority rescission by the Board of Aldermen.
(3) 
The assessment and professional opinion of City staff shall be the factor in determining if an activity presently being conducted or to be proposed is not in conformance with these provisions. The Planning and Zoning Commission shall be the appeals body for such a staff determination.
(4) 
All areas utilized for off-site parking or storage, and ingress/egress thereto, shall be surfaced with a minimum of six (6) inches of rolled gravel in conformance with City specifications.
(c) 
Off-site Parking Or Storage Consideration. In addition to normal factual determination criteria, following are examples of factors which may be examined or conditions which may be imposed during the course of application consideration:
(1) 
Existing and/or proposed lot improvements and topographical conditions.
(2) 
Impact on adjacent properties (property values, aesthetics, etc.).
(3) 
Effects on general community standards (passersby, etc., not immediately adjacent to the subject site).
(4) 
What can be stored at a particular location (type, number, etc.).
(5) 
Degree to which it might create or exacerbate hazardous or unsanitary conditions.
(6) 
Creation or aggravation of general nuisances such as visual, noise, odor, etc.
(7) 
Ongoing lot and/or recreational vehicle/camper/recreational trailer maintenance standards.
(8) 
Landscaping/screening/buffer requirements.
(9) 
Ingress/egress and general traffic impact standards.
(10) 
Proximity to residential zoning districts or residentially utilized property in other zoning districts.
(11) 
Proximity to other businesses and/or property lines and/or streets.
(12) 
No wrecked, derelict, or otherwise unsightly or unsafe recreational vehicles, campers and recreational trailers.
[Ord. No. 645, §5]
All buildings, structures and other construction at a campground for travelers shall comply with the BOCA Building Code and all applicable ordinances of the city.
[Ord. No. 645, §5.]
There shall be a ratio of one comfort station provided for each thirty campsites. No campsite shall be located farther than three hundred feet from a comfort station. For the purposes of this paragraph, a "comfort station" shall be defined as one toilet, one lavatory and one shower, with related plumbing facilities.
All showers and lavatory fixtures are to be provided with adequate hot and cold water and an automatic hot water control valve which will not permit hot water temperatures to exceed one hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit.
[Ord. No. 645, §5]
A sewage dumping station shall be constructed in all campgrounds. Construction shall be in accord with the city Plumbing code and properly maintained.
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Editor's Note — Ord. no. 1616 §3, adopted June 4, 2002, repealed section 20A-28 in its entirety and renumbered subsequent sections. Former section 20A-28 derived from ord. no. 645 §5.
[Ord. No. 645, §5]
Site lighting shall be such that adequate security can be maintained during the evening hours but not so as to interfere with sleeping.
[Ord. No. 645, §5]
All public campgrounds for overnight travelers shall have the following minimum recreational facilities:
(a) 
Children's playground.
(b) 
Recreation building or space in a multi-purpose building; minimum recreational space, four hundred square feet.
(c) 
Swimming pool, concrete or gunite construction; minimum size sixteen by thirty-two feet, minimum deck of concrete surrounding pool ten feet wide. The swimming pool shall meet county health department requirements.
[Ord. No. 645, §5]
A minimum of fifteen percent of all campsites shall be equipped with sewer hook-ups. A minimum of fifty percent of all campsites shall have individual water and electric hook-ups. Electric service shall be a minimum of one weather-proof duplex electrical outlet of 120 volts, 20 amperes with ground. Each water connection shall be with three-fourths inch riser and hose bib. The water system for the campground shall be designated to provide a minimum of twenty gallons per day per campsite.
[Ord. No. 645, §5]
There shall be a street light at each intersection of a one-way with a two-way street. All service buildings, comfort stations and their immediate area, inside and outside, shall be lighted.
[Ord. No. 645, §5]
Any campsites which are within one hundred feet of a property boundary shall be screened to protect adjoining property. Such screening may be shrubs, plantings or closed fencing.
[Ord. No. 645, §5]
The schedule of fees of the city for multiple extensions or connections of either the water or sewer system shall apply to each permanent building, comfort station and dumping station. If the public campground for travelers is open to travelers less than twelve calendar months per year, the owner or operator may negotiate with the mayor that portion of the water and sewer charges applicable to individual campsites which are not used for the full year. Any such negotiations must be carried on prior to the closing of the individual campsites or the full rates shall apply. The mayor is hereby authorized to negotiate for the city and to make reasonable adjustments in the charges for individual campsites, taking into consideration the periods when campsites are not being used, subject to the approval of the board of aldermen.