(a) Design Standards.
(1) Size of the Manufactured Home Park. A tract proposed for Development as a Manufactured Home Park shall have a minimum area of five (5) acres and a minimum width of three hundred (300) feet. In a case where a Manufactured Home Park does not have direct access to a public highway, an access Road with a minimum Right-of-Way of forty (40) feet shall be provided.
(2) Design of Manufactured Home Park Spaces.
A. In a Manufactured Home Park, a separate Manufactured Home Space shall be provided for each Manufactured Home and shall include a patio area and connections for public or community water supply and sewerage disposal and electrical service.
B. Manufactured Home spaces in different sections of the Manufactured Home Park may vary in size, but no space shall be less than 4,500 square feet in area and there shall not be more than eight (8) Manufactured Home Spaces per net acre.
C. In no case may Manufactured Homes be located closer than twenty (20) feet apart.
D. Each Manufactured Home space shall be permanently marked by a number.
E. All Manufactured Homes shall be located at least seventy-five (75) feet from any Street Right-of-Way which abuts a Manufactured Home Park boundary and at least fifty (50) feet from any other boundary line.
F. Each Manufactured Home space shall have a concrete stand or pad at least fifty (50) feet long and twenty-four (24) feet wide.
G. There shall be a minimum distance of twenty-five (25) feet between an individual Manufactured Home and the pavement of an adjoining park Street, or common parking area or other common areas within the Manufactured Home Park.
H. The Subdivision and/or Land Development Application and Approval Requirements specified in Article 1305
of this Ordinance shall apply to all proposed Manufactured Home Parks.
(b) Parking and Street Standards.
(1) Access to Manufactured Home Parks shall be designed to minimize congestion and hazards at the entrance or exit and allow free movement of traffic on adjacent Public Streets. Each Manufactured Home Park exceeding 1,000 vehicles per day shall be provided with at least two (2) points of access to a Public Street or Streets.
(2) All Manufactured Home Parks shall be provided with safe and convenient paved access Streets serving every Manufactured Home space. Alignment and gradient shall be properly adapted to topography in accordance with design standards specified in this Ordinance.
(3) All two-way Streets within the Manufactured Home Park shall have a minimum Right-of-Way of forty (40) feet and a minimum paved Cartway of thirty-two (32) feet if parallel parking on one side of the Street is planned. The paved Cartway shall be a minimum of twenty-two (22) feet if no parallel parking is planned. One-way Streets shall have a minimum Right-of-Way of thirty (30) feet and a minimum paved Cartway of twenty-one (21) feet if parallel parking is planned on one side of the Street. The paved Cartway shall be a minimum of eleven (11) feet if no parallel parking is planned.
(4) All Streets shall be paved in accordance with the design specifications of this Ordinance as well as other transportation standards of this Ordinance.
(5) One (1) parking space shall be provided as part of each Manufactured Home Space.
(6) One (1) additional parking space shall be provided for each four (4) Manufactured Home Ssaces to provide for two-car families.
(7) Common parking areas shall be provided for every Manufactured Home Park at the community center, administration Building, laundry, and at any other accessory Structure designed to serve the Manufactured Home Park at a rate of one (1) off-street parking place for every three-hundred (300) square feet of floor area. Recreation facilities including all outdoor sports, such as swimming pools, tennis courts, and shuffleboard courts shall provide off-street parking spaces at the rate of one (1) per eighty (80) square feet of floor space and/or as determined by extent of outdoor use.
(8) All parking areas shall meet the design requirements set forth in this Ordinance.
(9) No space within a Manufactured Home Park shall have direct vehicular access to a public Road abutting the Manufactured Home Park.
(c) Other Site Improvements.
(1) Individual tenants at the Manufactured Home Park may construct attached enclosures to individual Manufactured Homes, provided that they meet the requirements of this Ordinance. Attachments not meeting the requirements of this Ordinance may be constructed only if authorized by Waiver granted by the Planning Commission. In all cases, these attachments must meet all City Building code requirements.
(2) All parks shall be provided with safe, convenient, all-season pedestrian walks of adequate width for intended use, durable and convenient to maintain, between individual Manufactured Home Spaces, the park’s Streets, and all community service, administration, and Recreation facilities provided for park residents.
(3) Skirting shall be of a vinyl or metal material, safely secured as approved by the City of Martinsburg’s Code Enforcement Officer, hereinafter referred to as the Code Enforcement Officer.
(4) All other requirement of this Ordinance, the Zoning Ordinance, and the City of Martinsburg Codified Ordinances shall apply.
(d) Recreation and Open Space.
(1) All Manufactured Home Parks shall provide, and so indicate on the Plat of the Manufactured Home Park, suitable areas for Recreation and Open Space uses of at least twenty percent (20%) of the total area of the Manufactured Home Park, of which one-half (0.5) of the area shall be in one place. The remainder may be used to provide pedestrian connecting links to the Recreation areas.
(2) The Recreation and Open Space shall be located as centrally as possible within the Manufactured Home Park to be easily accessible to the residents of the Manufactured Home Park.
(3) The Recreation and Open Space must be maintained by the Manufactured Home association, which may be the operator.
(e) Responsibilities of the Park Management.
(1) The Person to whom a permit for a Manufactured Home Park is issued shall operate the park in compliance with this Ordinance and shall provide adequate supervision to maintain the park, its facilities and equipment in good repair and in a clean and sanitary condition.
(2) The Manufactured Home Park management shall supervise the placement of each Manufactured Home on its Manufactured Home stand that includes securing its stability and installing all utility connections.
(3) The Manufactured Home Park management shall give the City Engineer/Planning Director or designee and Code Enforcement Officer, or designees free access to all Manufactured Home Spaces, service Buildings, and other community service facilities for the purpose of inspection.
(4) The Manufactured Home Park management shall maintain a register containing the names and addresses of all park occupants. Such register shall be available to any authorized City official inspecting the park.
(5) The Manufactured Home Park management shall notify the local office of the West Virginia DEP and Department of Health and Human Resources immediately of any suspected communicable or contagious disease within the park. (Ord. 2022-13. Passed 11-10-22.)