§ 41-18. Physical standards.  


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  • (a) The campground shall be located on a well-drained site, not adjacent to swamps or marshes, properly graded to ensure rapid drainage and freedom from stagnant pools of water. Each campsite shall be well-drained and laid out in such manner as to provide sufficient open and graded space for the accommodation of camping units.
    (b) Each campsite shall provide a minimum of nine hundred (900) square feet of space and, if vehicles are permitted on the campsite, shall provide additional parking space for an automobile in a manner as not to interfere with the convenient and safe movement of traffic.
    (c) All campsites which accommodate vehicles shall abut upon a driveway of not less than twenty-five (25) feet in width which shall have direct access to a public highway, street, road or other public right-of-way; provided, that where one-way traffic is designated a road fifteen (15) feet in width shall be permitted, and that where an entrance gate to the campground is erected, an attendant shall be on duty at all times to allow the entrance of
    emergency vehicles. All service roads shall be constructed in such fashion as to permit convenient and safe movement of traffic. Service roads and parking areas shall be composed of suitable material to provide stability and all weather access.
    (d) Each campground shall provide service buildings to house those toilet and other fixtures required in section 43H030601, regulations governing camps of the state board of health and mental hygiene, which regulations are herewith made part of this article. Service buildings shall be located not closer than fifty (50) feet nor farther than fifteen hundred (1,500) feet from any campsite and may be permanently constructed; provided, that there shall be toilet and handwashing facilities no farther than six hundred (600) feet from any campsite.
    (e) The campground shall comply with the zoning ordinance, chapter 59 of this Code.
    (f) In addition to the water supply and sewage disposal requirements contained in sections 43H0307 and 43H0308 of the aforementioned state regulations, each campground, which admits travel trailers, shall provide facilities for filling trailer water tanks and for discharging sewage wastes from trailer holding tanks into the campground sewage disposal system.
    (g) Each campground shall be equipped, at all times, with one (1) fire extinguisher in good working order for every fifteen (15) campsites. The length of travel from any campsite to the nearest extinguisher shall not exceed two hundred (200) feet.
    (h) Where fireplaces are provided, they shall be surrounded by a clear zone of ten (10) feet in all directions.
    (i) Campsites may be equipped with temporary platforms constructed only by the owner. Permanent or semi-permanent huts or other living room additions to camping units shall not be permitted. (Ord. No. 5-165.)