(a) Size. A tract of land to be developed as a mobile home park shall contain a minimum of ten acres and be served by public water and sanitary sewers.
(b) Requirements Prior to Occupancy. Before a mobile home park may be occupied, at least one-third of the mobile home lots in the park must be completed and ready for occupancy, which completion shall include, but not be limited to, the installation of all roadways and drives, sidewalks, lighting, public utilities and service and management buildings serving the sites to be occupied. Before a site may be occupied, all facilities required for serving the site with emergency vehicles shall be completed.
(c) Lot Area; Density. Every mobile home placed in a mobile home park shall be on a space or lot having an area of not less than 5,000 square feet, and every mobile home park shall contain a density of not more than six mobile homes per gross acre.
(d) Lot Coverage. No mobile home, including accessory buildings, garages and porches, shall cover more than forty percent of the area of the mobile home space or lot on which it is placed.
(e) Frontage. Every mobile home placed on a mobile home space or lot shall front upon an interior drive in the mobile home park.
(f) Ground Floor Area. Every mobile home on a mobile home space or lot shall have a total ground floor area of not less than 600 square feet measured from the outside exterior walls, including utility rooms but excluding open porches, breezeways and garages.
(g) Height. No mobile home or accessory or related use shall exceed one story or fifteen feet in height.
(h) Yards. No mobile home shall be placed on a mobile home space or lot unless the following yards are provided and maintained in connection with such mobile home:
(1) Front. Each mobile home space or lot shall have a front yard of not less than twenty- five feet.
(2) Side. Each mobile home space or lot shall have a side yard on each side of not less than twenty-five feet, except for corner spaces or lots, which shall be not less than thirty feet.
(3) Rear. Each mobile home space or lot shall have a rear yard of not less than twenty feet.
(i) Streets, Sidewalks and Parking.
(1) Every mobile home park shall provide a main entrance drive not less than thirty-six feet wide. Every other drive shall be of a width and design necessary for the use required as determined by the Zoning Inspector, except that no drive shall have a usable travel width of less than twenty-four feet.
(2) Every drive shall be protected at the edges by curbs, gutters or other suitable edging as necessary to provide for the stabilization of the pavement and adequate drainage.
(3) Every mobile home space or lot shall abut a driveway.
(4) Every mobile home park shall contain, where pedestrian traffic is concentrated, common walkways not less than three feet wide for the safety and convenience of pedestrians. Driveways, not including walks, shall be graded in such a manner that walks can be added later. Individual walks from each mobile home stand to its paved parking shall also be provided.
(5) Within the boundary of each mobile home space or lot, there shall be two paved parking spaces not closer than three feet to the mobile home dwelling or closer than ten feet from a mobile home dwelling on an adjoining space or lot.
(j) Utilities.
(1) Water. Every mobile home park shall be served by public water.
(2) Fire protection. For fire protection purposes, there shall be domestic water under adequate pressure in standard fire hydrants approved by the Director of Public Service. Such hydrants shall be located in the mobile home park.
(3) Sanitary sewers. Every mobile home park shall be served by the Municipal sanitary sewerage system.
(4) Storm drainage. Adequate storm drainage for each mobile home lot shall be provided. Open drainage ditches are prohibited. All drainage systems shall be designed in accordance with Municipal standards.
(5) Refuse collection. Where refuse collection is not provided by the Municipality on an individual basis, there shall be refuse disposal receptacles located within 200 feet of each mobile home space or lot. The type, size and location of such receptacles shall be approved by the Municipality.
(6) Liquefied petroleum gas or fuel. When liquefied petroleum gas or fuel is used in the mobile home park, the containers for such gas or fuel shall be approved by the Municipality.
(7) Fuel oil. When fuel oil systems are used, they shall be installed and maintained in accordance with applicable State and local codes and regulations. All fuel oil storage containers, barrels, tanks or cylinders and piping to the mobile homes shall be securely fastened in place and protected against physical damage.
(8) Natural gas. When natural gas piping systems are used, they shall be installed underground in accordance with applicable codes and regulations and public utility standards. Each mobile home lot provided with piped natural gas shall have an approved manual shut-off valve installed upstream of the gas outlet. The outlet shall be equipped with an approved method to prevent accidental discharge of gas when the outlet is not in use.
(k) Mobile Home Stands and Skirts. Each mobile home shall be placed on, and have its four corners supported by and anchored to, a concrete foundation designed to carry the load placed thereon. Rigid skirts designed to screen and seal the space between the mobile home and its concrete foundation shall be installed within sixty days from the time the mobile home is placed on the space or lot.
(l) Communal Facilities. In all mobile home parks, the following facilities shall be provided and available to residents:
(1) Management and maintenance offices, including storage facilities for grounds-keeping equipment;
(2) Laundry and drying facilities in a permanent structure, which shall be in a convenient, accessible location; and
(3) Safe, usable, conveniently located recreation areas to comprise an area equal to eight percent of the gross area of the mobile home park tract.
(m) Peripheral Buffers. Every mobile home park tract which is adjacent to a Residential District shall provide a twenty-foot wide planting strip which extends along all outside boundaries contiguous to the District. The strip shall be planted with trees and shrubs that will provide a dense screen at all times, and shall be maintained in good condition by the owner.
(Ord. 82-38. Passed 9-20-82.)