(A) Permitted uses. A mobile home park has been designated as a separate district. Prior to the consideration of an application for a mobile home park by the Board, the applicant shall follow the procedure, planning considerations and conditions established for Planned Residential Developments in § 154.30.
(B) Requirement standards.
(1) Minimum lot areas:
(a) Mobile home park: 2 acres; and
(b) Mobile home lot: 4,000 square feet.
(2) Yards and distances between structures:
(a) The minimum distance between mobile home stands on opposite sides of the street shall be 60 feet.
(b) The minimum distance between a mobile home stand and a street 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 residential or feeder street, shall be 15 feet; and
2. Adjoining land use is other than residential or an arterial street, shall be 30 feet.
(d) Other minimum yard dimensions as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Required Minimum Distance from a Mobile Home Stand to its Lots Lines and to Other Stands and Buildings
(3) Streets.
(a) Streets 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. Streets shall be privately-owned.
(b) The street system shall provide convenient circulation by means of minor streets and properly located collector streets. Closed ends of dead-end streets shall be provided with adequate paved vehicular turning or backing space. A turning circle shall be at least 80 feet diameter.
(c) Pavements shall be of adequate widths to accommodate the contemplated parking and traffic load in accordance with the type of street with ten feet minimum moving lanes for collector streets, nine feet minimum lanes for parallel guest parking and two feet additional width for pedestrian use where adjacent sidewalk is not provided.
1. All entrance streets and other collector streets with guest parking both sides: 36 feet minimum*;
2. Collector street with no parking: 22 feet minimum*;
3. Minor or cul-de-sac street with no parking: 20 feet minimum*; and
4. One-way minor street with no parking (acceptable only if less than 500 feet total length and serving less than 25 mobile home stands): 11 feet minimum*.
* Reduce by two feet if adjacent sidewalk is provided.
(d) Streets 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) Street intersections shall generally be at right angles. Off-sets at intersections and intersections of more than two streets at one point shall be avoided.
(f) The street improvements shall extend continuously from the existing improved street system to provide suitable access to the mobile home stands and other important facilities on 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 surfacings other than cement concrete shall be protected at the edges by curbs, gutters or other suitable edging where necessary to prevent ravelling of the wearing surface and shifting of the pavement base.
(h) Street base shall be well-drained, uniformly graded, and compacted.
(4) Driveways.
(a) Driveways shall be provided on the site where necessary for convenient access to service entrances of buildings, 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.
(5) Parking spaces.
(a) Car parking spaces shall be provided in sufficient number to meet the needs of the occupants of the property and their guests without interference with normal movement of traffic. Such facilities shall be provided at the rate of at least one car space for each mobile home lot plus an additional car space for each four lots to provide for guest parking, for two-car tenants and for delivery and service vehicles.
(b) Required car parking spaces shall be located for convenient access to the mobile home stands. Insofar as practicable, one car space shall be located on each lot and the remainder located in adjacent parking bays.
(5) Walks.
(a) Individual walks: to each mobile home stand from a paved street or from a paved driveway or parking space connecting to a paved street.
(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 through interior areas removed from the vicinity of streets.
(6) Recreation facilities.
(a) Recreation areas and facilities, such as playgrounds, 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 10% of the gross site area shall be devoted to designed and developed recreational facilities, generally provided in a central location or, in the larger parks, decentralized. The minimum dimension of a recreation area shall be 100 feet. Recreation area includes space for community buildings, adult recreation and child play areas and swimming pools.
(7) Community facilities. Essential community facilities and services for the type of mobile home park under consideration, such as schools, recreation areas and police and fire projection shall be reasonably accessible to the park, or provisions shall be made assuring these facilities and services.
(Ord. 480, passed 11-16-1970)