(A) Permitted uses.
(1) Manufactured home parks, subject to the requirements established and regulated by the Mobile Home Commission rules, and the provisions of this section.
(2) Clubhouse, swimming pool, playgrounds, common areas and recreation facilities for the use of mobile home park residents.
(3) Accessory uses or structures such as manufactured home park business office, laundry facilities, and home occupations otherwise permitted in residential districts under this section.
(4) Public service installation.
(B) Internal roads.
(1) Internal roads shall have access to a public thoroughfare or shall be connected to a public thoroughfare by a permanent easement. The easement shall be recorded before an internal road is approved by the department. Sole access by an alley is prohibited.
(2) Dead end internal roads shall terminate with a paved turning radius of 50 feet. Parking shall not be permitted within the turning area, which shall be posted within the turning area.
(3) A safe-sight distance of 250 feet shall be provided at intersections.
(4) Offsets at intersections, or intersections of more than two internal roads are prohibited.
(5) Internal roads shall have driving surfaces with widths not less than the following:
(a) No parking, 21 feet.
(b) Parallel parking, one side, 31 feet.
(c) Parallel parking, two sides, 41 feet.
(6) All entrances to new communities or new entrances to expanded communities shall be a minimum of 33 feet in width of the pavement. The entrance shall consist of an ingress lane and a left and right egress turning lane at the point of intersection between a public road and the community's internal road and shall be constructed as follows:
(a) All turning lanes shall be a minimum of 11 feet in width and 60 feet in depth measured from the edge of the pavement of the public road into the community.
(b) The turning lane system shall be tapered into the community internal road system commencing at a minimum depth of 60 feet.
(c) The ingress and right egress turning lanes of the ingress and egress road shall connect to the public road and shall have a radius determined by the local public road authority. The intersection of the public road and ingress and egress road shall not have squared corners.
(d) Alternative designs that provide for adequate ingress and egress shall be approved by the Road Commission and Manufactured Housing Commission.
(7) An internal road shall be constructed of concrete, bituminous asphalt, or, where permitted by local regulations, compacted road gravel in compliance with the standards of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), which is adopted by reference in these rules and is available for inspection at the Michigan Department of Consumer and Industry Services, Bureau of Construction Codes.
(8) The community developer may use other suitable material of equal quality if approved by the department.
(9) A developer may install curbing on all internal roads. If curbing is used, it shall be constructed of concrete or asphalt.
(10) Speed limits on community internal roads shall be posted at a minimum at all community entrances intersecting public roads within one hundred (100') feet of the entrance or before the first intersection, and shall be enforced in compliance with the requirements of 1949 PA 300, M.C.L. §§ 257.1 et seq.
(11) All internal roads may be clearly marked with appropriate traffic signs, except that all community egress roads shall be clearly marked with a regulation stop sign at the point of intersection with a public road.
(12) Internal roads shall be named and so identified by signs located at all internal road intersections and at public roads.
(13) Signs bearing the words "Children Playing" shall be appropriately located on all internal roads adjacent to recreational and playground areas.
(14) Vehicle parking.
(a) All home sites shall be provided with two parking spaces at the home site. Vehicle parking shall be in compliance with both of the following provisions:
1. The parking spaces may be either in tandem or side by side. If spaces are in tandem, then the width shall not be less than ten feet and the combined length shall not be less than 40 feet. If spaces are side by side, then the combined width of the two parking spaces shall not be less than 20 feet and the length shall not be less than 20 feet. In either method, the length shall be measured from the closest edge of the back of the curb, the paving surface, or the common sidewalk, if provided.
2. A parking space shall be hard surfaced.
(b) Additional parking facilities.
1. A minimum of one parking space for every three home sites shall be provided for visitor parking. Visitor parking shall be located within 500 feet of the home sites the parking is intended to serve. The 500 feet shall be measured along a road or sidewalk.
2. If parking bays are provided, they shall contain individual spaces that have a clear parking width of ten feet and a clear length of 20 feet.
(C) Illumination. All streets and sidewalk and areas open to travel by mobile home park residents shall be illuminated as follows:
(1) Access points to public thoroughfares shall be lighted. If the public thoroughfare is lighted, the illumination level shall not exceed the average illumination level in foot candles of an adjacent illuminated public thoroughfare.
(2) At all street intersections and designated pedestrian crosswalks the minimum illumination shall be not less than 0.15 foot-candles.
(3) All streets, parking bays and sidewalks shall be illuminated at no less than 0.05 foot-candles.
(4) If a central park, mailbox, or park directory, or both are provided they shall be illuminated by not less than 3.15 horizontal foot candles.
(5) All lighting shall be located and shielded so as to direct the light away from premises abutting the mobile home park.
(D) Mobile home installation. Installation of mobile homes upon each mobile home site shall be accomplished in accordance with Part 6 of the Manufactured Housing Commission rules. All mobile homes shall be connected to utilities and shall be skirted and anchored in accordance with Part 6 of the Manufactured Housing Commission rules.
(Ord. passed 11-16-2020)