(a) Manufactured home communities are to be located on a parcel of land of not less than 20 acres. A minimum of 100 manufactured home spaces shall be available at first occupancy, together with any buildings, structures, enclosures, streets, drives, equipment, recreation area or facilities used or intended for use incidental to the development and occupancy of such manufactured homes.
(b) The manufactured home community site shall abut a minimum of a secondary thoroughfare having an existing or planned right-of-way of at least 86 feet and shall have direct access onto such thoroughfare.
(c) In each manufactured home community, there shall be provided a recreation area equal in size to at least 200 square feet per manufactured home site, which area shall be no longer than one and one-half times its width. Such area shall be graded, developed, sodded and maintained by the management so as to provide recreation for residents of the manufactured home community and shall be developed in one or more common uses areas. Required berm or greenbelt areas may not be counted in meeting the requirement.
(d) The manufactured home community site as adjacent to all abutting properties and public rights-of-way shall be enclosed with a four-foot, eight-inch high masonry wall, berms, landscaping or any combination thereof, subject to review and recommendation by the Planning Commission and approval by the Township Board.
(e) No business of any kind, with the exception of home occupations, shall be conducted in any manufactured home community, except for separate, permanent structures which contain facilities such as the management office, laundry, club houses or similar uses which are designed to serve only the residents of the manufactured home community.
(f) One identification sign may be approved in conjunction with the final site plan for the manufactured home community. The sign shall not be larger than 50 square feet in surface area nor stand higher than 15 feet from the ground to the top of the sign. Such sign shall be no closer to the public right-of-way than 20 feet. Flashing illumination of the sign shall be prohibited.
(g) Not more than one entry or one exit sign at each access drive onto the public right-of-way approved in conjunction with the final site plan approval may be allowed. In no case shall the sign be larger than two square feet in surface area, nor stand higher than five feet from the ground to the top of the sign.
(h) All manufactured home development shall further comply with Act 96 of the Public Acts of 1987, as amended.
(Ord. 260. Passed 7-9-79; Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)