The regulations of this district are intended to provide adequate space and facilities for healthful living conditions for the occupants of such mobile home parks. Mobile home parks should be serviced by municipal services or by systems, approved by the appropriate state, county and township agencies. All mobile home districts should have access to a public thoroughfare for easy accessibility. Locations that would tie into existing sewer mains or laterals would receive primary consideration.

1.

Mobile home parks.

2.

Family day care homes.

1.

Private garage not to exceed the greater of eight hundred (800) square feet or fifty (50) percent of the total floor area of a mobile home dwelling unit, up to a maximum of one thousand two hundred (1,200) square feet.

2.

Home occupation complying with the definition of home occupation in Article 2 of this ordinance and the following conditions:

a.

The occupation must be clearly incidental to the use of the dwelling as a residence.

b.

No outdoor display or storage of materials, goods, supplies, or equipment used in the home occupation shall be permitted on the premises.

c.

There shall be no visible evidence that the residence is being operated as a home occupation, except for the permitted sign.

d.

No persons other than members of the immediate family residing in the dwelling shall be employed in the home occupation.

e.

Off-street parking shall be provided on the premises, as required by Article 26 of this ordinance.

f.

A home occupation use shall not generate nuisances such as traffic, on-street parking, noise, vibration, glare, odors, fumes, electrical interference, or hazards to any greater extent than what is usually experienced in the residential neighborhood.

3.

Any use customarily incidental to the permitted principal use.

4.

No commercial, industrial, or agricultural equipment, including but not limited to earthmovers, semitrailers, bulldozers, backhoes, combines, heavy-duty trucks, in excess of ten thousand (10,000) pounds gross vehicle weight shall be stored outside anywhere on the premises.

The following uses shall be permitted only after special approval is granted by the planning commission in accordance with the procedures, requirements and standards set forth in this section and in Article 30, and subject to any conditions imposed by the planning commission. Any of the following uses located within a mobile home park shall be subject to the governing setback, distance and other regulations in the general rules of the mobile home commission:

1.

Houses of worship, convents, parish homes, and similar uses.

a.

All ingress to and egress from the site shall be directly to a minor thoroughfare, having an existing or planned right-of-way width of at least sixty (60) feet as indicated on the township master thoroughfare plan.

b.

No building shall be closer than seventy-five (75) feet from any property line.

c.

Off-street parking shall be provided on the site in a ratio of one (1) space for each six (6) feet of pew length in the main sanctuary or one (1) space for each three (3) persons as designated in the maximum occupancy load of the main sanctuary.

2.

Public, parochial and private schools, not operated for profit.

a.

The lot location shall be such that at least one (1) property line abuts a minor thoroughfare. All ingress and egress to the lot shall be directly onto said thoroughfare.

b.

Any building used in whole or in part for school purposes shall be located not less than seventy-five (75) feet from any adjacent property line.

c.

Parking areas shall be screened on all sides abutting a residential district.

d.

All lighting shall be shielded away from public right-of-way and neighboring residential lots.

e.

Parking shall be provided as required under Article 26 of this ordinance.

3.

Public recreation uses such as parks, playgrounds, golf courses, ball fields, athletic fields, and community centers.

a.

All vehicular access shall be from a minor thoroughfare with sixty (60) feet right-of-way, or detailed traffic studies may be required showing to the satisfaction of the commission that no sufficient adverse impact upon surrounding uses results.

b.

No outside storage shall be permitted.

c.

Barbed wire, industrial type fences and site features that adversely impact residential quality are prohibited.

4.

Municipal, state or federal uses, public libraries, public museums, provided that no outside service or storage yards shall be permitted.

5.

Essential services buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electric transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations.

a.

Such uses shall be permitted only when location in residential areas is required to serve the immediate vicinity.

b.

No outside service or storage yards shall be permitted.

c.

All structures shall be at a scale and have an exterior appearance compatible with a residential area.

d.

All lines serving such sites shall be underground. Overhead transmission lines and tower structures are expressly prohibited.

6.

Nursery schools, child care centers, [and] day nurseries.

a.

No dormitory facilities are permitted.

b.

The outdoor play area shall be fenced and screened by a heavily planned greenbelt from any abutting residential uses.

c.

All lighting shall be shielded away from public right-of-way and abutting residences.

d.

Off-street waiting and drop-off space shall be provided at one (1) space per six (6) children that can be accommodated in the school. Such spaces shall be ten (10) feet wide by twenty-four (24) feet long.

7.

Functional equivalent family; additional persons. The limit upon the number of persons who may reside as a functional equivalent of the domestic family may be increased or enlarged beyond a maximum of six (6) unrelated persons upon a demonstration by the applicant of all of the following:

a.

There are adequate provisions on the subject property for off-street parking for each adult proposed to reside on the premises which is capable of driving, and adequate storage for each person proposed to reside on the premises.

b.

The extent of increase or enlargement of the limit upon the number of persons shall not, considered cumulatively with existing and reasonably projected population concentration in the area, place an unreasonable burden upon public services, facilities, or schools.

c.

There shall be a minimum of one hundred twenty-five (125) square feet of usable floor space per person on the premises.

d.

Approval of a request to increase the number of persons who may reside as a functional equivalent family with additional persons shall require the planning commission to determine the specific maximum number of persons authorized to reside on the property, and any minimum parking or storage requirements to be maintained.

(Ord. No. 14-1, § 4, 4-21-2014)

The following requirements shall apply to mobile home parks:

1.

Prior to the development of a mobile home park, site plan approval shall be received. The park plan shall specifically locate the uses intended, the layout and location of other improvements, mobile home sites, traffic circulation, adequate lighting, traffic ingress and egress from the major road system, setback from lot lines, methods of disposing of stormwater and sewage, water supply, time scheduled for development and the specific uses intended.

2.

Availability of adequate schools, utilities, fire, and police protection and road access and other public services.

3.

Mobile home parks shall be subject to all the rules and requirements as established and regulated by the state laws of Michigan including, by way of example, Public Act No. 96 of 1987 (MCL 125.2301 et seq.) and the Mobile Home Code and, in addition, shall satisfy the following minimum requirements:

a.

Screening. All mobile home parks shall be screened from adjacent single-family residential land use by either a wall in accordance with the requirements of Section 4.25 or a densely planned landscaped greenbelt or berm in accordance with the requirements of Section 4.36. Such screening is encouraged to be constructed around the entire park where not specifically required. The planning commission may waive such screening, notwithstanding the foregoing requirement, in special situations where the planning commission finds that adequate natural screening exists or no useful purpose will be served by the screening.

b.

Roads. All streets and driveways in every mobile home park shall be constructed and maintained with an all-weather road surface in compliance with the standards of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) that affords ready means of ingress and egress to the park. All streets or driveways shall have a minimum pavement width of thirteen (13) feet for one (1) way streets and twenty-four (24) feet for two (2) way streets. Driveways shall have a minimum paved width of ten (10) feet. The above minimum street and pavement widths do not include any portion thereof used for or allowed to be used by off-street parking. Any bays, areas of streets, or rights-of-way allowing off-street parking or sidewalks shall be in addition to the above-specified widths. All streets and driveways shall be adequately drained.

c.

Access. The main entrance of the park shall be directly on a public thoroughfare.

d.

Open space. All mobile home parks having fifty (50) or more mobile home sites shall have at least one (1) easily accessible open space are containing not less than twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet. The total amount of land dedicated for open space shall not less than two (2) percent of the mobile home park's gross acreage. Such land area shall be generally central and accessible to units intended to be served and shall be well drained, and usable.

e.

Minimum site size and density. The mobile home park shall be developed with sites averaging five thousand five hundred (5,500) square feet per mobile home unit. This [These] five thousand five hundred (5,500) square feet for any one (1) site may be reduced by twenty (20) percent provided that the individual site shall be equal to at least four thousand four hundred (4,400) square feet. For each square foot of land gained through the reduction of a site below five thousand five hundred (5,500) square feet, at least an equal amount of land shall be dedicated as open space, but in no case shall the open and distance requirements be less than that required under R 125.1946, Rule 946 and R 125.1941 and R 125.1944, Rules 941 and 944 of the Michigan Administrative Code. Notwithstanding the foregoing, density shall not exceed 6.5 mobile home units per acres.

f.

Parking.

1)

Shall be provided at the rate of two car spaces for each mobile home site.

2)

A minimum of one (1) parking space for every three (3) mobile home sites shall be provided for visitor parking located convenient to the area served.

3)

No unlicensed vehicle of any type shall be parked within this district at any time except within a covered building.

4)

All group off-street parking facilities shall be adequately lighted during hours of darkness.

g.

Building permit. No mobile home shall be permitted to be placed in a mobile home park until a permit shall have been granted from the township building inspector. All mobile home parks shall be constructed only after a permit to construct shall have been obtained from the Michigan Department of Commerce, Mobile Home Division.

1.

Minimum lot area for total site: Ten (10) acres.

2.

Minimum lot width for total site: Three hundred (300) feet.

3.

Minimum yards setbacks for total site:

Front: Ten (10) feet.

Side, least one (1): Ten (10) feet.

Side, total two (2): Twenty (20) feet.

Rear: Ten (10) feet.

Provided that no permanent building, facility or mobile home in the park shall be closer than fifty (50) feet to any public right-of-way.

A mobile home shall be a minimum of:

a.

Twenty (20) feet from any part of another mobile home;

b.

Ten (10) feet from any detached structure or on-site parking of an adjacent mobile home site;

c.

Fifty (50) feet from a permanent building;

d.

Ten (10) feet from a natural or manmade lake, waterway;

e.

Seven (7) feet from pedestrian walkways and sidewalks;

f.

Fifty (50) feet from any public right-of-way.

4.

Maximum height: Two and one half (2½) stories or thirty-five (35) feet.

5.

Minimum floor area per dwelling unit: Six hundred (600) square feet.

In accordance with Article 29, site plan approval shall be required for all principal and special approval uses permitted in this district, except, however, with respect to mobile home parks only, those provisions of Article 29 which impose a stricter standard than set forth in the Mobile Home Code [Public Act No. 96 of 1987 (MCL 125.2301—125.2350)] shall not be applicable.

An environmental impact study may be required by the planning commission or the township board as part of any site plan review and subject to the provisions of Section 4.45, Environmental impact statement requirements.