(A) Purpose. The R-4 Manufactured Home Development District is intended to preserve the interests of alternate types of residential developments that should be permitted in every community and to protect the residents of any manufactured home type development. These regulations are minimum standards to be applied to all manufactured home developments in the district.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) Manufactured home developments, subject to the requirements established and regulated by the Manufactured Housing Commission rules, and the provisions of this subchapter;
(2) Clubhouse, swimming pool, playgrounds, common areas and recreation facilities for the use of manufactured home development residents;
(3) Accessory uses or structures such as manufactured home development business office, laundry facilities and home occupations otherwise permitted in residential districts under this subchapter; and
(4) Public service installations.
(C) Compliance with Michigan Manufactured Housing Commission. No manufactured home development shall be established within the R-4 District unless the park complies with the rules of the Michigan Manufactured Housing Commission.
(D) Greenbelt buffer. Within the premises upon which a manufactured home development is located there shall be constructed a greenbelt buffer. After approval as a part of the preliminary plan review process, there shall be no requirement that the buffer be changed due to future development.
(1) Landscaping materials: if the manufactured home development abuts an existing residential development, the development shall be required to provide screening along the boundary abutting the residential development.
(a) If a development abuts a nonresidential development, it need not provide screening. In all cases, however, a development shall provide screening along the boundary abutting a public right-of-way.
(b) The landscaping shall consist of evergreen trees or shrubs at least three feet in height spaced so they provide a continuous screen at maturity.
(c) Alternative screening devices may be utilized if they conceal the manufactured home development as effectively as the required landscaping above.
(d) Property owners are allowed flexibility in material selection as long as these standards are met. If a wood fence is used, the materials shall be pressure-treated lumber. If a masonry fence is used, it shall have a foundation of at least 42 inches deep in the ground.
(e) Trees, shrubs and all planted vegetation within the buffer must be appropriate to the climate and provided further, that they are not infested with pests, insects or diseases.
(f) The buffer shall be landscaped in such fashion as to assure that it will not erode and shall be landscaped with grass or ground cover appropriate for the climate.
(2) Screening shall be maintained in a condition very similar to the condition at the time of installation. This means fences shall be straight and broken boards shall be replaced. Dead trees, bushes, shrubs and vegetation shall be replaced with new, live, smaller plants that will grow to the same height as the dead plant being replaced. Masonry fences shall have all cracks repaired and maintained by pointing.
(3) The Planning Commission shall be authorized to grant an exception from the foregoing screening requirements where the screening would serve no useful practical purpose in providing peace and quiet for the occupants of the adjoining premises and may grant an exception during the preliminary plan review process.
(E) Streets, sidewalks and public ways. Every manufactured home development shall be provided with a network of streets with access points to adjacent public ways, at least as set forth hereinafter.
(1) All streets within the manufactured home development shall be paved with a hard surface in accordance with the most recent edition of the ASSHTO Standards.
(2) Every street shall be provided with drains designed according to the design standards of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality drainage standards.
(3) Two-way streets within the manufactured home development shall have a minimum traveled width of 21 feet of pavement with no parking.
(a) All streets and street rights-of-way shall be of adequate width to allow for snow storage and removal.
(b) In the event that parking is permitted on any street within the manufactured home development, the minimum width of each street, in addition to the traveled portion, shall be ten feet wide for each parallel parking lane and 16 feet wide for each diagonal parking lane.
(c) If a parking lane is not provided, “no parking” signs will be installed and enforced on the side of the street.
(F) Off-street parking and driveways.
(1) Driveways shall be provided for access to service entrances and buildings for delivery and collection points for fuel, refuse and other materials and elsewhere as needed. Every driveway entrance shall have a flare or radii in horizontal alignment necessary for safe and convenient ingress and egress.
(2) A minimum of one parking space for every three manufactured home sites shall be provided for visitor parking. Each visitor parking site shall be located within 500 feet of the manufactured home site it is intended to serve. The 500 feet shall be measured along a road or sidewalk.
(3) In addition to the foregoing, a separate parking area may be provided for vehicles that cannot be accommodated within the parking areas set forth above, such as recreational vehicles, travel trailers, snow mobiles, and the like.
(G) Illumination. All streets and sidewalks and areas open to travel by manufactured home development residents shall be illuminated as follows.
(1) Access points shall be lighted. If the public thoroughfare is lighted, the illumination level shall not exceed the average illumination level of the public thoroughfare.
(2) At all internal street intersections and designated pedestrian crosswalks, the minimum illumination shall be not less than 0.15 foot candles.
(3) All internal roads, parking bays and sidewalks shall be illuminated at no less than 0.05 foot candles.
(H) Water supply, fire hydrants and sanitary system. Public sewer systems shall be required in a manufactured home development if available within 200 feet at the time of preliminary plan approval. If a public sewer system is unavailable, the development shall connect to a state-approved sewage system.
(I) Open space. An open space dedicated to use by manufactured home development residents as a recreation area, playground or gathering area, including, at the option of the owner/developer, clubhouses, swimming pools and the like, shall be provided.
(1) The areas shall consist of not less than 2% of the park’s gross acreage but not less than 25,000 square feet.
(2) The areas shall not be included in the border greenbelt buffer and shall not be swamp or other marshland. This open space requirement shall not apply to manufactured home developments with less than 50 sites.
(3) If a development is built in stages, when the fifty-first site is developed, this requirement shall apply to all the sites in both stages of the development.
(J) Manufactured home installation. Installation of manufactured homes upon each manufactured home site shall be accomplished in accordance with Part 6 of the Michigan Manufactured Housing Commission rules. All manufactured homes shall be connected to utilities and shall be skirted and anchored in accordance with Part 6 of the Michigan Manufactured Housing Commission rules.
(Ord. passed 11-2-2005)