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In the circumstances where the enforcement officer cannot issue an operating permit, the developer may either:
(A) Withdraw his or her application and certificate of completion with the option to submit revised documents within the next 60 calendar days, or before the original 12-month period for submitting the application for an operating permit has expired, whichever is later; or
(B) Appeal the decision of the enforcement officer to the Board of Commissioners by filing a written notice of appeal with the enforcement officer within five working days after the decision of the enforcement officer. The enforcement officer shall place the hearing of the appeal on the agenda of the next regularly scheduled Board of County Commissioner’s meeting taking place more than ten continuous days after the receipt of the notice of appeal by the enforcement officer.
(Ord. passed 8-4-03)
DESIGN STANDARDS
The standards set out in this chapter for the design of manufactured home parks are deemed minimum standards. Should standards contained in other local ordinances, regulations of other county departments, laws, or regulations of the state or federal government, or policies of utilities providers be stricter, those stricter standards shall apply.
(Ord. passed 8-4-03)
The following are general requirements for the design and construction of manufactured home parks.
(A) Park identification sign. Manufactured home park identification signs are limited to one sign per park entrance. No sign may exceed 36 square feet in area. The sign must be located on private property and no closer than five feet from any property line and at least 20 feet from any dwelling unit. The sign must be set back at least ten feet from any public road right-of-way. In addition, one sign may indicate the office, if an office exists within the manufactured home park.
(B) Administrative office. Within a manufactured home park, one manufactured home may be used as an administrative office.
(C) Storage buildings. A manufactured home park may have material and equipment storage buildings for maintenance of the park.
(D) Drainage. All ditch banks shall be sloped and seeded to prevent erosion, or vegetated buffer strips shall be maintained in their natural state to prevent erosion.
(E) Flood area. The park shall be graded so as to prevent any water from ponding or accumulating on the premises.
(F) Mail service. Space shall be provided for mail service to the residents of the park.
(G) Fire hydrants.
(1) When a manufactured home park is to be served by a central water system with lines of six inches or more in diameter, fire hydrants are to be installed every 1,000 feet, or no further than 500 feet from the furthest point of any lot within the manufactured home park. Where a public water line of six inches or more in diameter is available at the nearest state road to the manufactured home park, the developer shall use a water line of six inches or more in diameter within the park if a fire hydrant is required.
(2) In the event water lines within the manufactured home park are smaller than six inches in diameter, a fire hydrant shall be required at the entrance to the manufactured home park, if the public water supply line is six inches in diameter or greater.
(3) Fire hydrants shall be installed to the specification of the public water supply system serving the manufactured home park.
(Ord. passed 8-4-03)
The following are requirements for the design and improvement of manufactured home spaces within a manufactured home park:
(A) No more than one manufactured home may be parked or placed on any manufactured home space.
(B) Each space shall meet the minimum area and lot width requirements outlined below. Notwithstanding these standards, the developer shall provide sufficient area on each space to ensure that all other requirements of this chapter and other applicable development regulations can be met. Space size shall not include street rights-of-way or designated screening areas, and space width shall be measured along the right-of-way. Space width for spaces on the bulb of a cul-de-sac and for flag shaped spaces may be reduced to 40 feet. In addition, flag shaped spaces shall provide sufficient width at the right-of-way line to allow driveway installation at least ten feet from any parcel line. The computed area of flag shaped spaces shall exclude area provided for access or “panhandle.”
(1) With septic tank system:
(a) Minimum size: 12,500 square feet.
(b) Minimum width: 60 feet, except 40 feet for flag shaped space or space adjacent to bulb of cul-de-sac.
(2) With public or community sewage system:
(a) Minimum size: 10,000 square feet.
(b) Minimum width: 60 feet, except 40 feet for flag shaped space or space adjacent to bulb of cul-de-sac.
(C) All manufactured home spaces shall be located a minimum of 15 feet from any public road right-of-way.
(D) The manufactured home stand shall meet the following standards:
(1) The manufactured home stand shall be set back at least 15 feet from all boundaries of the space.
(2) Setback requirements are measured from a point on the exterior of entrance stoops, porches, steps, or decks.
(3) Each manufactured home stand is required to provide for adequate placement of anchor or tie down points so designed as to prevent the manufactured home from moving as a result of high winds.
(E) Adequate space from off-street parking of two passenger cars is required for each manufactured home space. The requirements of the parking area are as follows:
(1) Dimensions of at least 20 feet by 20 feet;
(2) Direct connection to a public or private street; and
(3) Either:
(a) Pavement of a minimum of 1½ inches of asphalt on 4 inches of compacted crushed stone; or
(b) Covered with three inches of compacted crushed stone.
(F) Site numbers. All spaces are to be permanently identified with numbers at least three inches high. The identifying numbers may be located either:
(1) On the ground by permanent markers or on monuments provided they are visible from the street; or
(2) Attached to the manufactured home four feet from the door and five feet from the bottom of the manufactured home. If the manufactured home is perpendicular to the street, the number is to be placed four feet from the corner and five feet from the bottom of the manufactured home. This number is to be placed on the side on which the front door is located. If there is a window access across the entire front of the manufactured home, the number should be placed over the window.
(Ord. passed 8-4-03)
All streets within manufactured home parks shall be designated as private and shall be paved.
(A) Street requirements. Except as listed below, all streets must be constructed in accordance with the North Carolina Department of Transportation requirements for public streets. The exceptions from the North Carolina Department of Transportation standards are based upon the permitted driveway design for the individual spaces.
(1) Valley gutter design (See Appendix A):
(a) Right-of-way width: 45 feet;
(b) Pavement width: 20 feet;
(c) Minimum centerline radius: 150 feet; and
(d) Swale section:
1. Front slope: Horizontal distance of five feet with a slope of 5:1;
2. Back slope: Slope of 5:1; and
3. Longitudinal slope: 0.3%.
(2) Driveway tile installation (See Appendix A):
(a) Right-of-way width: 50 feet;
(b) Pavement width: 20 feet; and
(c) Minimum centerline radius: 150 feet.
(B) Cul-de-sacs. Every permanent dead end street shall be developed as a cul-de-sac and shall not exceed 1,200 feet in length, except where the shape of the tract of land being developed makes this requirement impractical. The length of the cul-de-sac shall be measured from the centerline of the nearest intersecting through street to the center of the turnaround. All North Carolina Department of Transportation design options for cul-de-sacs are allowed within parks.
(C) Temporary turnarounds. In cases where streets are proposed to be extended, the Planning Board may permit a temporary turnaround for a period not to exceed two years. Such turnarounds must be designed as a cul-de-sac bulb and constructed to North Carolina Department of Transportation base standards, but not necessarily paved.
(D) Street offsets. Whenever possible, proposed intersections on one side of a street, or road, or highway shall coincide with existing or proposed intersections on the opposite side of such street, road, or highway. In any event, however, street offsets, as measured between the center lines of intersecting streets, shall meet the following requirements:
(1) Internal streets. Street offsets within developments shall be at least 125 feet apart.
(2) Primary or secondary roads. Street offsets created by manufactured home park streets intersecting with primary highways or secondary roads shall be at least 250 feet apart.
(Ord. passed 8-4-03)
The following are the requirements for design and construction of utilities in manufactured home parks.
(A) Compliance. All utility installations shall comply with applicable building and health codes of Greene County and the State of North Carolina, and with the North Carolina Utilities Commission requirements.
(B) Water supply and sewage disposal.
(1) All new manufactured home parks are required to be connected to an existing public water supply and, when practicable, a public or community sewage system.
(2) Public water system supply lines must abut each lot within the manufactured home park or be otherwise constructed so that no individual water service line crosses another lot within the park.
(3) Water may be supplied in accordance with one of the following.
(a) During final site plan review, the agency or entity which owns and operates such a system shall certify that the new development is accepted for addition to the system.
(b) If a new sewer system (e.g., package sewage treatment plant, and the like) is proposed to serve the development, certification that the site has been approved for the proposed system from the appropriate agency which has jurisdiction over the system is required as part of the final site plan submittal.
(C) Street lights. All manufactured home park spaces and streets shall be sufficiently illuminated to ensure the security of property and the safety of
persons using such streets. The distance between street lights shall not exceed 400 feet, as measured along street rights-of-way.
(D) Solid waste. The owner of the manufactured home park shall provide for an adequate system of storage and disposal of solid waste, sufficient to alleviate health and pollution hazards. This storage and disposal system may be achieved by one of the following:
(1) Providing each manufactured home space with standard fly-proof, water-tight, rodent-proof containers, and stands designed so as to prevent containers from being tipped, to minimize spillage and container deterioration, and to facilitate cleaning around them; or
(2) Providing a central solid waste receptacle, such as a dumpster, emptied a minimum of once per week.
(E) The developer shall construct a drainage system adequate to properly drain the usable areas of the manufactured home park but not to the detriment of neighboring property.
(Ord. passed 8-4-03)
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF
MANUFACTURED HOME PARKS
MANUFACTURED HOME PARKS
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