(A) Intent. The MHP Mobile Home Park Districts are intended to provide sites for mobile home parks which are characterized by a relatively high-density structures which are replaced periodically and dwelling units which are permitted by state law to exist without conforming to local codes and ordinances applicable to other dwelling units. Because the mobile home park possesses site characteristics similar to multiple-family residential development and because they typically develop with private streets and utility systems, thereby creating an interruption in the continuity of the local streets and utility systems, they are not compatible when located in an otherwise single-family area. Therefore, in this chapter, mobile home parks are intended to be located so as to provide a transition of use between extensive nonresidential districts (Industrial and Commercial Districts) and Moderate-Density Residential Districts.
(B) Permitted uses. In an MHP Mobile Home Park District, no building, structure, or land shall be used or erected, and no building or structure shall be erected, except for one or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this chapter:
(1) Mobile home parks, which conform to the requirements of division (C) below; and
(2) Multiple-family dwellings as permitted and as regulated in the RM Moderate-Density Residential Districts.
(C) Mobile home park required standards.
(1) Development. The mobile home park shall be developed with sites averaging 5,500 square feet per mobile home unit. This 5,500 square feet for any one 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. This open space shall be in addition to that required under the standards required under the Mobile Home Commission Act, Public Act 96 of 1987, or any administrative rules promulgated therein.
(2) Distances.
(a) Each mobile home site shall have a front yard setback of ten feet;
(b) Each mobile home shall be in compliance with the following minimum distances:
1. Ten feet from an on-site parking space of an adjacent mobile home site; and
2. Ten feet from an attached or detached structure or accessory of an adjacent mobile home which is not used for living purposes.
(c) Fifty feet from a permanent building;
(d) One hundred feet from a baseball or softball field; and
(e) Any park or structure that belongs to a mobile home shall be set back the following minimum distances:
1. Seven feet from a parking bay;
2. Seven feet from a common pedestrian walkway; and
3. Twenty five feet from a natural or human-made lake, object, or walkway.
(3) Setbacks from property boundary lines:
(a) Mobile homes, permanent buildings, and facilities and other structures shall not be located closer than ten feet from the property boundary line of the mobile home parks or mobile home condominiums.
(b) If mobile homes, permanent buildings, and facilities, and other structures abut a public right-of-way, they shall not be located closer than 50 feet from the boundary line, except that if the boundary line runs through the center of the public road, the 50 feet shall be measured from the road right-of-way line.
(4) Service drive requirements.
(a) The service drives shall be hard surfaced.
(b) The service drive shall have access to a public thoroughfare or shall be connected to a public thoroughfare by a permanent easement which shall be recorded prior to approval by the state. Sole access by an alley is prohibited.
(c) A dead-end road shall terminate with an adequate turning area. A blunt-end road is prohibited.
(d) An adequate safe-sight distance shall be provided at intersections.
(e) An offset at an intersection or an intersection of more than two streets is prohibited.
(f) All roads shall be clearly marked with appropriate traffic signs, subject to the provisions of the Mobile Home Commission Rules and standards required under the Mobile Home Commission Act, Public Act 96 of 1987, or any administrative rules promulgated thereunder.
(g) A road sign shall be named and so identified by street signs located at all road intersections.
(h) A name of an internal road shall be approved by the village.
(i) A service drive shall be constructed of materials suitable for sub-grades and hard surface in compliance with the standards of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, adopted herein by reference. The park developer may use other suitable materials of equal quality, if approved by the Mobile Home Commission.
(j) The Village Engineer shall review ingress and egress of the service drives as established in § 11 of the Mobile Home Commission Act, Public Act 96 of 1987, being M.C.L.A. §§ 125.2311 et seq., and standards required under the Mobile Home Commission Act, or any administrative rules promulgated thereunder.
(5) Electrical system. A park electrical system shall, at a minimum, be designed, installed, operated, and maintained in compliance with the rules entitled “Electrical Liners and Equipment”, of the State Administrative Code, pursuant to the construction, installation and safety standards of the servicing public service company and in compliance with standards required under the Mobile Home Commission Act, Public Act 96 of 1987, or any administrative rules promulgated thereunder.
(6) Compliance with state law. All mobile home park developments shall further comply with Public Act 96 of 1987, being M.C.L.A. §§ 125.2301 to 125.2350.
(Ord. 259, passed 10-24-1995; Ord. passed 2-1-2012) Penalty, see § 157.999