(A) The requirements for mobile home parks in the MH Mobile Home Residential District are:
(1) The park shall be a minimum of 10 acres in area;
(2) All buildings within the park shall be less than 2 stories or 25 feet;
(3) Mobile home parks shall be landscaped as follows:
(a) If the mobile home park abuts an existing residential development, the park shall be required to provide screening along the park boundary abutting the residential development;
(b) If the park abuts a nonresidential development, the park need not provide screening;
(c) In all cases, however, a park shall provide screening along the park boundary abutting a public right-of-way.
The landscaping shall consist of evergreen trees or shrubs, a minimum of 3 feet in height, which are spaced to provide a continuous screen at maturity. Alternative screening devices may be utilized if they conceal the mobile home park as effectively as the required landscaping described above.
(4) Open space requirements are as follows:
(a) A mobile home park that contains 50 or more mobile home sites shall have at least 1 easily accessible open space area containing not less than 25,000 square feet;
(b) The total of the land dedicated for open space shall not be less than 2% of the park's gross acreage that is approved for construction pursuant to a permit to construct, but not less than 25,000 square feet.
(B) Site size requirements are as follows.
(1) The mobile park shall be developed with sites averaging 5,500 square feet per mobile home unit. This 5,500 square feet for any 1 site may be reduced by 20%, provided that the individual site shall be equal to at least 4,400 square feet. For each square foot of land gained through the reduction of a site below 5,500 square feet, at least an equal amount of land shall be dedicated as open space, but in no case shall the open space and distance requirements be less than that required under R 125.1946, Rule 946 and R 125.1941 and R 125.1944, Rules 941 and 944 of the Michigan Administrative Code.
(2) Mobile homes shall be placed at least 10 feet from the pavement of the internal road serving the mobile home unit.
(3) Mobile homes shall be at least 20 feet from the front, side or rear of the nearest mobile home. In those instances when the mobile home is adjacent to a structure which is not used for living purposes such distance shall be not less than 10 feet.
(C) The following provisions relate to accessory buildings and uses.
(1) The provisions of § 82-454 relating to accessory building location and spacing shall not apply to mobile home parks. Accessory buildings in mobile home parks shall be subject to Mobile Home Rule 941.
(2) The provision of § 82-454(9) shall not apply to mobile home parks. The following shall apply.
(a) Storage areas. No personal property shall be stored outside or under any mobile home. Storage sheds may be used to store property but need not be supplied by the owner of the mobile home development.
(b) Storage/parking. If boats, boat trailers and utility trailers are permitted to be parked within the mobile home park, adequate parking spaces for such vehicles in a central or collective parking area shall be provided. This area shall be in addition to the automobile parking requirements of this chapter and shall be adequately locked, fenced and permanently buffered.
(D) The requirements for mobile home subdivisions, in addition to the requirements contained in the Michigan Subdivision Control Act of 1967 and Chapter 62 of this Code, relating to subdivisions, are:
(1) Minimum lot size: single area, 5,000 sq. ft.; single width, 45 feet; double-wide area, 7,200 square feet; double-wide width, 60 feet;
(2) Maximum building height: 25 feet;
(3) Minimum yard setback: front, 25 feet; side, 10 feet; rear, 25 feet;
(4) Maximum lot coverage by all buildings: 30%;
(5) In a mobile home subdivision, a corner lot which abuts upon a street on the same side of which other residential lots front in the same block, any building shall have a minimum side setback equal to the front setback of the district in which it is located.
(1993 Code, § 82-189) (Ord. passed 10-12-1992)