(a) Purpose. The purpose of the "MH", Manufactured Home Park District, is to encourage a suitable environment for persons and families that by preference choose to live in manufactured homes rather than a conventional site built single-family structure. In keeping with the occupancy characteristics of contemporary manufactured homes, this section establishes low density standards and permitted uses that reflect the needs of residents in the district. Development is limited to manufactured homes when located in a manufactured home park on rental lots. No trailer, camper, or similar portable residence structures shall be permitted to locate in the Village for occupancy purposes. Mobile homes are allowed only in established Mobile Home Parks.
(b) Principal Permitted Uses. The following provisions apply to all "MH", Manufactured Home Park Districts. Any use not expressly permitted is prohibited.
(1) Single and multi-sectional manufactured homes.
(2) Mobile homes shall not be located outside a manufactured home park district.
(3) Accessory uses and buildings customarily incidental to the above permitted uses.
(c) Requirements. Manufactured home parks shall meet the requirements of Chapter 3701-27 of the Ohio Administrative Code adopted by the Public Health Council under the authority of Ohio Revised Code 3733.02 and shall also be subject to the following requirements:
(1) Contain a minimum of four acres.
(2) Greenbelt. The park shall have a greenbelt twenty feet (20') in width at its rear and sides. The greenbelt shall be forty feet (40') at the front of the manufactured home park. The greenbelt shall be measured from the nearest edge of the road right-of-way to the line of the closest manufactured home site.
(3) Recreation. A minimum of ten percent (10%) of the total park should be left in open space developed for recreation purposes. Such developed area shall not include roads, sidewalks or lands under water or having excessive grades and shall be so graded and developed as to have adequate drainage and usability by residents of the park.
(4) Site dimensions. Each single section manufactured home shall have its own home site which shall be at least forty feet (40') wide and ninety feet (90') in depth, a minimum of three thousand six hundred (3,600) square feet in area.
(5) Site placement. Manufactured homes shall be at least twenty feet (20') from the rear and side of the nearest manufactured home and fifteen feet (15') from the end and side of the nearest manufactured home, and shall be placed at least ten feet (10') from the pavement of the access drive.
(6) Access. All manufactured home parks shall have access to a paved major thoroughfare. The proposed site shall have at least one property line abutting a major thoroughfare, a thoroughfare of at least sixty feet (60') of right-of-way existing or proposed. All ingress and egress to the site shall be directly from a major thoroughfare.
(7) Vehicle travel lanes. All roadways and driveways shall be hard surfaced and so constructed as to handle all anticipated peak loads, adequately drained and lighted for safety and ease of movement of vehicles. The local roadway system shall be so designated as to prevent the use of such roadways for through traffic. The width of all travel lanes shall be no less than twenty feet (20').
(8) Storm drainage facilities. Shall be so constructed as to protect those that will reside in the manufactured home park, as well as the property owners adjacent to the park. Such park facilities shall be of such capacity to insure rapid drainage and prevent the accumulation of stagnant pools of water in or adjacent to the park.
(9) Fuel oil and gas storage. Shall be centrally located in underground tanks, at a distance away from any manufactured home lot found to be safe. All fuel lines leading to manufactured home lots shall be underground and so designed as to conform with the State Code that is found to be applicable.
(d) Site Plan Review. A site plan must be submitted to the Planning Commission showing all buildings, parking areas, manufactured home sites, and landscaping at a scale sufficient to permit study of all elements of the plan. Typical elevations and floor plans of any buildings must also be provided. In addition, the proposed site plan of the development shall show all adjacent properties, including existing buildings, located within two-hundred feet (200') of the proposed site in the same block. The plans shall meet the required standards and design and indicate no adverse effects which cause injury to adjoining property of the Village as a whole. Plans so approved shall regulate the development of said premises, unless modified in the same manner as the plans were originally approved. Such review is necessary to secure proper relationships between parking areas, access drives, abutting public thoroughfares, landscaping, building, siting and open space. (Ord. 99-2. Passed 3-1-99.)