The following requirements shall apply to mobile home parks in addition to all other requirements of this chapter.
(A) Minimum lot area.
(1) Mobile home park.
(a) In unincorporated areas: sufficient room for 50 units with initial development of 25 units.
(b) In incorporated areas: five acres.
(2) Mobile home lot. 5,000 square feet
(B) Ground floor area. No mobile home may be established, erected or changed so that its ground floor area is less than 500 square feet.
(C) Building height. No main building or structure may be erected or changed so as to have a height greater than 30 feet.
(D) Requirements for mobile home parks. The following requirements shall apply to all mobile home parks in addition to the previous requirements.
(1) Yards and distances between structures.
(a) The minimum distance between mobile home stands on opposite sides of park drive shall be 60 feet.
(b) The minimum distance between a mobile home stand and a park drive pavement, a common parking area, a common walk, or other common area shall be eight feet.
(c) The minimum distance between a mobile home stand and the park boundary when:
1. Adjoining residential land use or a local or collector shall be 15 feet;
2. Adjoining land use is other than local or an arterial street shall be 30 feet.
(2) Park drives.
(a) Park access drives shall be provided on the site where necessary to furnish principal traffic ways for convenient access to the mobile home stands and other important facilities on the property. Drives shall be privately owned.
(b) The drive system shall provide convenient circulation by means of minor drive and properly located collector ways. Closed ends of dead ends shall be provided with adequate paved vehicular turning or backing space. A turning circle shall be at least 80 feet in diameter.
(c) Pavements shall be of adequate widths to accommodate the contemplated parking and traffic load in accordance with the type of drive with ten feet minimum moving lanes for collectors, nine feet minimum moving lanes for minors, seven feet minimum lane for parallel guest parking and two feet additional width for pedestrian use where an adjacent sidewalk is not provided.
1. All entrance drives and other collectors with guest parking on both sides, 36 feet minimum.
2. Collectors with no parking, 22 feet minimum.
3. Minor or cul-de-sac with no parking, 20 feet minimum.
4. One-way minors with no parking (acceptable only if less than 500 feet in total length and serving fewer than 25 mobile home stands), 11 feet minimum.
5. Each of the above may be reduced by two feet if an adjacent sidewalk is provided.
(d) Drives shall be adapted to the topography and shall have suitable alignment and gradient for safety of traffic, satisfactory surface and ground water drainage, and proper functioning of sanitary and storm sewer systems.
(e) Drive intersections shall generally be right angels. Offsets at intersections and intersections of more than two drives at point shall be avoided.
(f) Drive improvements shall extend continuously from the existing improved public street system to provide suitable access to the mobile home stands and other important facilities of the property, to provide adequate connections to existing or future streets at the boundaries of the property and to provide convenient circulation for vehicles.
(g) Pavements and surfacing other than cement concrete shall be protected at the edges by curbs, gutters or other suitable edging where necessary to prevent raveling or the wearing surface and shifting of the pavement base.
(h) Pavements bases shall be well drained, uniformly graded, and compacted.
(i) Flexible pavements:
1. Base: as required by minimum standards set forth in Title III of the Comprehensive Plan;
2. Wearing surface: bituminous concrete, minimum one and one-half inches thick compacted practical density, or a double seal coat in accordance with Section 407.30 ,Type III “Indiana State Highway, Standard Specifications, 1971,” Indiana State Highway Commission.
(j) Rigid pavements: portland cement concrete, minimum six inches on a prepared subgrade constructed in accordance with the minimum standards set forth in Title III of the Comprehensive Plan.
(3) Driveways.
(a) Driveways shall be provided on the site where necessary for convenient access to service entrances of building, to delivery and collection points for refuse and other material, and elsewhere as needed.
(b) Driveway serving a single facility or single mobile home lot, minimum eight feet; where used as walk, minimum ten feet.
(4) Walks.
(a) Individual walks: to each mobile home stand from a paved drive, driveway, or parking space connecting to a drive.
(b) Common walks: in locations where pedestrian traffic is concentrated; for example, at the park entrance, and to the park office and other important facilities. Common walks should preferably be though interior area removed from the vicinity of public streets.
(c) Width shall generally be at least one and one-half feet for walks on individual lots and three feet for common walks.
(d) Pavement: same as for streets.
(5) Laundry facilities.
(a) Laundry facilities shall be provided either individually in each mobile home and its space, in a centralized common facility, in decentralized common facilities, or in a combination of these to suit local preference and the availability of washer and dryers supplied in current mobile home models.
(b) Where centralized provisions of washers, dryers, or common drying areas are required they shall be located convenient to the mobile home spaces.
(6) Recreation facilities.
(a) Recreation areas and facilities (examples include play grounds, swimming pools, and community buildings) shall be provided to meet the anticipated needs of the clientele the park is designed to serve. Provision of separate adult and tot lot recreation areas is encouraged.
(b) Not less than one-half acre per 25 units shall be devoted to designed and developed recreational facilities, generally provided in a central location or in the larger parks, decentralized.
(7) Screen planting and fences.
(a) A tight screen planting six feet in width and height, effective during all seasons of the year, shall be placed adjacent to the boundary of the mobile home park, maintaining same in original or better condition.
(b) A wire mesh fence four feet high shall be placed at the boundary line of the mobile home park.
(c) Fences or free standing walls shall be installed where necessary for screening purposes, such as around laundry yards, refuse collection points, and play grounds.
(d) All fences and walls shall be located at least 18 feet from interior drive center lines and at least 18 inches from the pavement edges of drives, driveways, parking spaces and walks.
(e) Fences and walls shall be appropriately designed for the function intended and shall be substantially constructed to withstand conditions of soil, weather, and use.
(8) Community facilities. Essential community facilities and services for the type of mobile home parked under construction, such as schools, recreation areas, police and fire protection shall be reasonably accessible to the park or provisions shall be made assuring these facilities and services.
(9) Sanitary facilities.
(a) The mobile home park shall be provided with a complete sanitary sewer system, which shall connect with an existing approved sanitary sewer outlet or shall be provided with a separate treatment plant, to be provided by the developer in accordance with the minimum requirements of the State Board of Health and/or the Stream Pollution Control Board.
(b) The plans for the installation of a sanitary sewer system shall be provided by the developer of a mobile home park and approved by the Indiana State Board of Health. (Refer to current state administrative regulations.) Upon the completion of the sanitary sewer installation, the plans for such system as built shall be filed with the Commission.
(1985 Code, § 36-7-4-600(4.1))