(A) General.
(1) The purpose of these requirements is to promote road safety, assure adequate access for fire and rescue vehicles, alleviate traffic congestion and promote adequate vehicular circulation. The manufactured home park shall have roads and driveways that directly abut all spaces.
(2) The right-of-way of any new street or change in any existing street shall be delineated on the development plan or plat with particularity, and these streets shall be designated either public or private. Any street designated on a development plan or plat as public shall be conclusively presumed to be an offer of dedication to the public of that street and shall meet NCDOT standards as are required for public roads.
(B) Public roads.
(1) All public roads shall be constructed and maintained to N.C. Department of Highways “Subdivision Roads–Minimum Construction Standards.” Submittal for review and approval shall be in accordance with G.S. § 136-102.6.
(2) Roadway alignments shall be in conformance with the county thoroughfare plan.
(3) The amount of road pavement should be minimized through efficient layout and design.
(4) Permanent dead-end streets or culs-de-sac shall be provided with a turnaround of at least 60 feet in diameter.
(5) Streets or drives within the manufactured home park shall intersect as nearly as possible at right angles, and no street shall intersect at less than 60 degrees. Where a street intersects a public street or road, the design standards of the North Carolina State Highway Commission shall apply.
(6) The applicant must demonstrate that access from a public road to the site is adequate, has the capacity to handle traffic generated by the proposed project, and will not endanger the safety of the general public.
(7) (a) Where property abuts a road with a U.S. or N.C. designation and a road with a State Route number (and assigned a name for purposes of emergency response) access to the property shall be by way of the State Route.
(b) Exceptions to this rule shall be instances where the Planning Commission determines that direct access onto a road with a U.S. or N.C. designation would promote traffic safety.
(8) Where 1 or more contiguous parcels are under single ownership, and any 1 of the parcels abuts a road with a U.S. or N.C. designation and a road with a State Route number, access to all of the parcels under single ownership shall be by way of the road with a State Route number.
(9) No more than 1 direct access approach onto a road with a U.S. or N.C. designation shall be provided to any individual parcel of record as of the date of this chapter.
(10) Exceptions:
(a) The Planning Commission may, with approval by the State Highway Commission, approve additional access if the additional access is deemed to be significantly beneficial to the safety and operation of the highway, or if allowing only 1 access approach would be a safety hazard or increase traffic congestion; and
(b) The Planning Commission may approve additional access when the parcel is bisected by steep slopes or other topographic features in such a manner as to render some portion of the property inaccessible without additional road access.
(11) Where a future roadway is designed on an approved thoroughfare plan or county map, development plans for development adjacent to the designated roadway shall include provisions for future access to the roadway.
(12) Access shall be consolidated wherever possible.
(13) Safe sight distance will be required at each entrance to the development.
(14) All entrances to the development shall meet N.C. Department of Highways “Policy on Street and Driveway Access to North Carolina Highways.”
(15) Any public road that is extended shall be continued as a public road.
(C) Private roads.
(1) All private roads shall be constructed and maintained to N.C. Department of Highways “Subdivision Roads–Minimum Construction Standards,” except:
(a) Interior private roads necessary for the delivery of mail, the collection of garbage or ingress/egress for mail delivery vehicles and garbage collection vehicles shall be paved, per DOT standards above. The pavement shall be kept in good repair at all times; and
(b) Other interior roads, not necessary for the delivery of mail, collection of garbage or ingress/egress for mail delivery vehicles and garbage collection vehicles, do not have to be paved, and the base may be reduced to 4 inches of stabilized material, per DOT standards above. The material shall be kept in good repair and replaced or augmented as necessary to maintain a level and stable roadway. These roads shall be kept free of potholes and wash-boarding. Access to each mobile home space shall be provided by streets with a minimum right-of-way of 45 feet, of which 20 feet shall be graded and drained for automobile circulation within the park.
(2) Maintenance of all private roads shall be provided by the owner or operator of the park.
(3) No private road may connect 2 public roads.
(4) All private roads shall terminate within the development and shall not connect to other private or public roads on adjoining properties.
(5) All streets in the manufactured home park shall be adequately illuminated from sunset until sunrise. The minimum size street light shall be a 175 watt mercury-vapor (approximately 7,000 lumen class) or its equivalent, spaced at intervals of not more than 300 feet.
(Ord. 3 § 6.8, passed 9-14-1998) Penalty, see § 152.999