The purpose of the MHP Manufactured Home Park District is to accomplish the following:

(A)

Provide a zoning district for manufactured home parks;

(B)

Establish standards governing the location and development of manufactured home parks;

(C)

Encourage the development of manufactured home parks to provide additional housing at a reasonable cost; and

(D)

Promote manufactured home park designs that will provide good interior circulation and a maximum of privacy for individuals who are residing therein, will reflect and take advantage of natural topographic features to result in an interesting and varied pattern, and will include facilities for a wide range of amenities and leisure time activities.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

The density of any manufactured home park shall be no more than six manufactured homes per acre and the density of any specific area within a manufactured home park shall not exceed nine manufactured homes per acre.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Within an MHP Manufactured Home Park District, a manufactured home park shall be the permitted use and therein the following uses shall be permitted:

(A)

Manufactured home;

(B)

Accessory storage structure to be used in conjunction with the manufactured homes provided such structure is attached to a permanent foundation in accordance with the Building Code;

(C)

Building or permanent structure used exclusively to provide accessory services for occupants of the park such as a recreation facility, laundry room or manufactured home park office;

(D)

Accessory building or structure clearly incidental to a manufactured home and attached thereto such as a carport. Any accessory building shall be attached to a permanent foundation and constructed in accordance with the Building Code.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Manufactured Home Park District Development Standards

Each manufactured home park shall have an area of no less than ten acres and no more than 100 acres.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Each manufactured home park shall have frontage of no less than 150 continuous feet on a public street that is designated as a collector or arterial in the official Columbus thoroughfare plan.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Whenever only a portion of a recorded lot is proposed as a manufactured home park, or whenever two or more recorded lots or portions of two or more recorded lots are proposed to be combined to form a manufactured home park, the proposed manufactured home park as shown on the plot or site plan submitted shall be considered to be a newly created single lot, and such newly created lot shall not be reduced in size or divided or split if such reduction, division or split will result in a lot which would fail to meet any of the requirements of this Zoning Code.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

A manufactured home park district is designated to be in the 35-foot height district.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

A perimeter yard is required for each manufactured home park. All parking, buildings, structures, and manufactured homes shall be sited so as to provide a setback of at least 25 feet from all lot lines. This 25-foot perimeter yard shall be landscaped and cannot be used for anything other than passive open space or a required roadway entrance into the manufactured home park. Whenever a manufactured home park is bounded by land which is both zoned and used for single-family dwellings the common border between the manufactured home park and the existing single-family dwellings shall be buffered by either a continuous fence, shrubbery or mounding in accordance with the following:

(A)

A fence shall be no less than four feet in height and shall be maintained in a neat, clean and orderly manner.

(B)

Shrubbery shall be of such type and maturity and planted in such manner that the shrubs will reach a height of no less than four feet within one year and will grow towards each other so as to result in a solid hedge within one year. Such hedge shall be kept trimmed and maintained in a neat, clean and orderly manner. Shrubs shall be replaced as necessary.

(C)

The fence or shrubbery shall be 75 percent or more opaque.

(D)

A mound shall be no less than four feet in height, planted with grass or other suitable ground cover and maintained in a neat, clean and orderly manner. Vegetation shall be replaced as necessary.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

In an MHP manufactured home park district the minimum building and parking setback from any public street shall be one-half of the designed right-of-way width of the street as shown on the Columbus thoroughfare plan; provided, however, that said setbacks shall never be less than 25 feet.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

The minimum building and parking setback from any private roadway within a manufactured home park shall be 15 feet from the edge of the pavement or the back of the curb.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

The storage of items and any storage facility within a manufactured home park shall be in accordance with all of the following:

(A)

Open storage of yard maintenance equipment, household effects, garbage and trash cans, and other similar items is prohibited.

(B)

Enclosed storage facilities for household or personal effects of park residents only shall be provided, designed so as to provide no less than 225 cubic feet of storage space on each manufactured home site. Such storage facilities shall be constructed in accordance with the Columbus Building Code and shall be permanently anchored in accordance with the Building Code.

(C)

In addition to the above storage facilities, each manufactured home site shall be provided with an enclosed storage facility of no less than 25 cubic feet for garbage and trash cans. These storage facilities may be combined with those required by (B) above. Both types of storage facilities shall be located on each individual manufactured home site and have a total combined capacity of no less than 250 cubic feet. All such storage facilities shall be anchored to a permanent foundation in accordance with the Building Code.

(D)

A screened open storage area for boats and recreational vehicles shall be provided and maintained which storage area shall be readily accessible to and exclusively used by residents of the park. Screening shall consist of a fence, landscaped earth mound of suitable slope, wall, planting or combination thereof installed, repaired, replaced and maintained to a total height of no less than five feet above the storage area grade and which shall result in no less than 75 percent opaqueness. The area shall consist of at least 100 square feet of open storage space for each manufactured home site in the manufactured home park.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Each manufactured home park shall provide common open space and recreational areas within the boundaries of the park subject to the following provisions:

(A)

The common open space or recreational area may be composed of more than one specific area; and

(B)

The total amount of land set aside for common open space or recreational area shall be no less than eight percent of the total area of the manufactured home park. Land used for the required perimeter yard, required storage areas, private roadways and parking shall not be considered as part of this required eight percent open space.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Each manufactured home site in a manufactured home park or section thereof shall abut on a paved roadway within the manufactured home park which has a clear, unobstructed, paved width to accommodate the contemplated parking and traffic load. The design, installation and subsequent improvement of all roadways shall be subject to the final approval of the director of public service and/or their designee. The director of public service and/or their designee shall approve no circulation or roadway plan unless it meets the following minimum criteria:

(A)

Each two-way entrance and exit roadway shall have a width of no less than 35 feet exclusive of any median strip. Each one-way exit or entrance roadway shall have a width of no less than 20 feet;

(B)

A minor or cul-de-sac roadway may have a width of no less than 20 feet provided that no parking is permitted therein;

(C)

Parking may be permitted on both sides of a roadway having a width of 35 feet or more;

(D)

Parking may be permitted on both sides of a roadway having a minimum width of 28 feet provided that such roadway has been designated as and traffic movement is limited to one-way;

(E)

Parking may be permitted on only one side of a two-way roadway having a minimum width of 28 feet;

(F)

Parking may be permitted on one side of a roadway that has a minimum width of 20 feet provided that such roadway has been designated as and traffic movement is limited to one-way.

The director of public service and/or their designee shall not approve any private roadway unless it meets the following minimum criteria:

(A)

The improved surface shall be constructed of asphalt concrete or Portland cement concrete on an appropriate sub-base as required by the director of public service and/or their designee.

(B)

Curbs and gutters made of Portland cement concrete shall be required along each side of the improved portion whenever such improved portion has a required width of 30 feet or more. Such curbs and gutters shall be of the integral type.

(C)

Improved roadways with a required width of less than 30 feet may be of the V section type, or of the crown type with curbs and gutters along each side, whichever is preferred by the developer.

(Ord. 1633-88; Ord. 1909-01 § 1 (part); Ord. No. 0128-2009, § 1, 2-9-2009)

(A)

Access to a manufactured home park from an adjacent public street shall be by means of at least two collector-width roadways, the location of which shall comply with requirements of the department of public service. Additional accesses may be required depending upon the size and design of the manufactured home park.

(B)

No manufactured home site shall have direct vehicular access to a public street. Any manufactured home site that is adjacent to a public street shall be separated from such street by either a natural or an artificial barrier.

(Ord. 1633-88; Ord. 1909-01 § 1 (part); Ord. No. 0128-2009, § 1, 2-9-2009)

Within each manufactured home park sidewalks shall be installed in accordance with the following:

(A)

All sidewalks shall be made of Portland cement concrete and shall have a thickness of no less than four inches; and

(B)

Common sidewalks, with a minimum width of four feet, intended to provide pedestrian circulation from one manufactured home to another or to various locations throughout the manufactured home park shall serve all manufactured homes and common use areas that front upon or have access from a roadway improved with curbs and gutters. Such sidewalks shall be located in either of the following locations depending upon the design of the park and the preference of the developer:

(1)

Within the boundaries of the roadway. Whenever this location is selected there shall be no less than four feet between the nearest edge of the sidewalk and the nearest edge of the curb. Such sidewalks are required to be installed on only one side of a roadway with an improved width of 20 feet and on both sides of a roadway with an improved width of greater than 20 feet.

(2)

Approximately midway between two tiers of manufactured home sites to provide an interior type of common walkway sidewalk circulation system.

(C)

A private sidewalk with a minimum width of two feet shall be provided for access from each manufactured home to a roadway or to a common walkway system.

(D)

No portion of any parking space shall overlap any portion of a sidewalk. Head-in parking shall be restrained from overlap by wheel stop devices provided in accordance with C.C. 3312.

(Ord. 1633-88; Ord. No. 1792-2011, § 1(Attach. 1), 12-12-2011)

Within each manufactured home park street lights shall be installed in accordance with the following minimum requirements:

(A)

All manufactured home park roadways shall be lighted at night by no less than three-tenths footcandle of artificial light and all wiring shall be of the underground type.

(B)

Street light poles and luminaries shall comply with the standards for residential street lighting on file in the office of the Division of Electricity.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Within each manufactured home park all utility lines, including but not limited to electric, telephone, water, gas and cable television shall be installed underground.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

At the time a manufactured home park is developed, all utility lines shall be designed and installed in accordance with the regulations and requirements of the respective utility companies involved. Whenever the developer or operator of a manufactured home park intends to charge or does charge an individual occupant of the park a fee for any utility's service, including but not limited to electricity, gas or water, a separate meter for that type of utility for which a charge will be or is made shall be installed at the manufactured home site being serviced and charged.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Within each manufactured home park storm drainage shall be provided in accordance with the following minimum requirements:

(A)

All manufactured home sites, roadways, and other areas shall be graded in such a manner that storm water will drain from them. There shall be no undrained depressions. Grading shall be accomplished so as not to obstruct the natural drainage of adjoining and adjacent properties;

(B)

No open drainage ditch shall be permitted and all drainage ways shall be enclosed in accordance with the standards on file in the office of the division of water reclamation.

(C)

Drainage lines necessary to carry storm water from the manufactured home park property to the nearest approved facility for the disposition of storm water shall be installed.

(D)

All storm drainage plans shall be approved by the division of sewers and drains.

(Ord. 1633-88; Ord. No. 1682-2025, §§ 3, 4, 6-30-2025)

Within each manufactured home park the source of water supply shall be from the city-owned water system. The installation of water lines shall be in accordance with the standards on file in the office of the division of water. connection of individual manufactured homes to the manufactured home park water system shall be made in accordance with the standards on file in the office of the Columbus health department.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Each manufactured home park site shall have an approved connection to a centralized natural gas or fuel system. The design of this system shall be approved by the appropriate utility. No individual propane, butane, or other type of individual fuel system shall be allowed in a manufactured home park.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Within each manufactured home park adequate water mains, fire hydrants, gated connections, and other fire prevention and fire safety features shall be installed in accordance with the current National Fire Protection Association Standards 501A and 501B on file in the Bureau of Fire Prevention in the Division of Fire. Plastic pipe for the exclusive use of fire prevention purposes may be permitted subject to the approval of the Columbus fire marshal.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

All manufactured home sites, buildings and structures with running water shall be connected to the sanitary waste disposal system. Within each manufactured home park sanitary waste disposal shall be accomplished by means of a city-owned or operated sewage system. Installation of sewer lines shall be in accordance with the standards on file in the office of the division of water reclamation. connection of individual manufactured homes to the manufactured home park sewage system shall be made in accordance with the standards on file in the office of the Columbus health department.

(Ord. 1633-88; Ord. No. 1682-2025, §§ 3, 4, 6-30-2025)

Each manufactured home site designed for a single-wide unit shall have continuous frontage of not less than 15 feet on an approved roadway located within the boundaries of the manufactured home park. Each manufactured home site designed for a double-wide unit shall have continuous frontage of not less than 30 feet on an approved roadway or street located within the boundaries of the manufactured home park.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Each manufactured home site shall contain an area of no less than 4,000 square feet. The manufactured home shall be placed on the site so as to comply with the following:

(A)

Each manufactured home shall be placed upon the manufactured home site so as to provide no less than 20 feet between the side of one manufactured home and the side of another, 15 feet between the end of one manufactured home and the side of another, and ten feet between the end of one manufactured home and the end of another. In computing these distance requirements, an auxiliary room or similar accessory connected to the manufactured home shall be considered as part of the manufactured home. A temporary porch or canopy which is open on two or more sides shall not be considered as part of the manufactured home.

(B)

No portion of any manufactured home, its appurtenances or parking space shall be located on a manufactured home site so as to be closer than 15 feet to a roadway boundary, or 25 feet to a manufactured home park boundary or property line.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Each manufactured home site shall contain a patio area of no less than 200 square feet. Such patio shall be constructed of portland cement concrete, brick, tile or similar material, so as to result in a dust-free and well-drained hard surface. A deck of the same size will suffice for the patio requirement.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Each manufactured home shall be placed on and anchored securely to a manufactured home pad in accordance with the provisions of the Building Code.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

Most residential lots in the city are served by central sewer and water and tend to be between 33 and 60 feet wide and between 100 and 120 feet deep. Improper outside storage results in rat and rodent harborage, mosquito and other insect breeding, "attractive nuisances" of a hazardous nature, spillage of hazardous materials, environmental degradation, unsightliness, and a disincentive for neighboring property owners or occupants to maintain their properties.

Although the Zoning Code provides for customary home occupations, residential garages, storage of boats and recreational vehicles, and parking, and facilitates proper storage by allowing utilization of a storage shed of less than 169 square feet without a building permit, the code must define and prohibit certain nuisance storage activities deleterious to residential districts. The purpose is not to prohibit uses in a yard area which are normally associated with residential use; but, instead, to increase the yard's use, enjoyment, and compatibility with its neighbors.

(Ord. 1482-95.)

No person in any residentially zoned district as defined in Chapter 3303, C.C., shall store, collect, park, leave, deposit, maintain, reserve, put aside for future use, permit, allow, or suffer to remain on any porch, balcony, roof, or in a yard except in a completely enclosed building or structure, any:

(1)

Lumber or other building materials except those related to projects for which a valid building permit has been issued and except firewood for the personal use of the resident in the rear or side yard;

(2)

Motor vehicle as defined by Ohio Revised Code Section 4511.01, airplane, boat, shipping container, or trailer except as provided for by Chapter 3312, Off-Street Parking and Loading;

(3)

Parts of any item listed in (2) above including tires;

(4)

Equipment or materials used in the construction trade;

(5)

Machinery or household appliance (not including equipment required for solar energy collection);

(6)

Junk;

(7)

Salvage; or

(8)

Upholstered furniture, mattresses, materials and other similar products not designed, built and manufactured for outdoor use unless such is in an enclosed porch or balcony.

For purposes of this section an enclosed porch or balcony shall mean a platform located at and attached to or abutting against the entrance to a building, completely covered by a roof and completely enclosed by fully intact glass and/or fully intact screens. Screens are framed wire mesh or framed plastic mesh used to keep out insects and permit airflow.

(Ord. 1482-95; Ord. 960-04 § 3; Ord. No. 1792-2011, § 1(Attach. 1), 12-12-2011; Ord. No. 1501-2022, § 19, 6-13-2022)

A.

An agricultural use, farm, field crops, garden, greenhouse, or nursery may be conducted in any Manufactured Home Park district without restriction as to the operation of incidental vehicles and machinery or restriction as to the incidental sale and marketing, including produce stands, of products raised on the premises, provided that:

1.

The agricultural use is located on-premises and on a minimum lot area of one (1) acre; and

2.

A poultry and livestock building, structure and yard is located on-premises and is located a minimum distance of 100 feet from a lot or street line; and

3.

Poultry and livestock for sale are kept in approved enclosures.

4.

The agricultural standards comply with the appropriate regulations of the Columbus Health Department.

B.

Solar energy collection may be conducted in any Manufactured Home Park district, subject to the following:

1.

Equipment directly related to the gathering of solar energy shall be exempt from screening requirements.

2.

Electricity collected on-site may be distributed off-site for use or sale.

(Ord. No. 1501-2022, § 20, 6-13-2022)

A private garage in a residential district shall be so located and constructed as to conform to one or more of the following as the case may require:

(A)

A private garage shall not be an accessory use to a lot in a residential district unless such lot is occupied by a residence or unless a building permit has been issued for and construction started on a residence building on such lot.

(B)

A private garage built as an accessory use in an MHP District shall not provide for more than two motor vehicles for each family for which such residence is arranged or designed.

(C)

No separate garage building shall be erected in a terrace or retaining wall, closer than the required building line to the street line, or closer than the minimum side yard requirement or building line to an adjoining lot line. On a corner lot a separate garage building shall not be closer than the building line of the side street to such side street.

(D)

An attached or semi-attached private garage shall have such separation from the residence or apartment residence as is specified in the Building Code.

(E)

A private detached garage may not occupy more than 45 percent of the total rear yard.

(F)

Subject to the limitation of subsection (E) above, no portion of the lot area devoted to a garage or a carport shall exceed the greater of:

(1)

720 square feet; or

(2)

One-third of the minimum net floor area for living quarters of the principal residence; and

(G)

No carport or detached garage shall exceed 15 feet in height, the perpendicular straight line measured from the curb level, or from the finished grade line of the lot where such grade is higher than the curb, to the highest point of such garage, except that in the University Impact District, as defined in C.C. 3372.504, in those areas having an architectural review commission as set out in Chapters 3319 through 3331, C.C., or in a district or listed property, as defined in Chapter 3116, C.C., the 15-foot height limit may be exceeded in order to achieve a compatible roof pitch provided the University Area review board, the appropriate architectural review commission, or the historic resources commission, as the case may be, finds the increased roof pitch is compatible with the established architectural character of the district and further provided the increased roof pitch does not result in habitable space.

(H)

A private garage shall be considered attached to the dwelling only when directly attached to habitable space. Any habitable space in an attached garage must connect directly with habitable space in the dwelling.

(I)

Nothing in subsection (H) above shall prevent a breezeway connection between a house and private garage. The area of the breezeway connection shall be utilized in calculating the percent of total rear yard which may be occupied by a private, detached garage as stipulated in subsection (E) above, but shall not be subject to the limitations of subsection (F) above.

(J)

No maintenance, alteration, repair, reconditioning or reconstruction of, or connected in any way with, a motor vehicle, as defined by Ohio Revised Code Section 4511.01, registered to any one other than a resident of the subject premises shall be carried on or conducted in a private garage.

(Ord. 1482-95.)

No person shall perform any motor vehicle service, work, trade, occupation, or business, including but not limited to the building, alteration, reconditioning or repair of a motor vehicle as defined by Ohio Revised Code Section 4511.01, or related thereto, on any residential lot or in any private garage. The performance of service to or maintenance of the motor vehicle registered to the resident of such lot thereon shall not constitute a violation of this section.

(Ord. 1482-95.)

Automobile parking spaces shall be provided as follows within each manufactured home park:

(A)

Hard surface parking spaces in compliance with Chapter 3312 of the Zoning Code shall be provided for each manufactured home site as follows:

(1)

Two spaces per manufactured home shall be located on each manufactured home site. These spaces may be stacked one behind the other.

(2)

An additional one-half space per manufactured home shall be located no farther than 200 feet from the manufactured home to be served thereby.

(Ord. 1633-88; Ord. No. 1792-2011, § 1(Attach. 1), 12-12-2011)

No later than 30 days after a manufactured home has been placed upon a manufactured home site the area between the bottom of the sides and ends of the manufactured home and the ground upon which it is located shall be enclosed by walls made of a visibly impervious material.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

All manufactured home parks shall be required to obtain a certificate of zoning clearance in accordance with C.C. 3305.01. All development shall comply with the approved certificate of zoning clearance. Any variation shall require a new certificate of zoning clearance.

(Ord. 1633-88.)

A lot or premise, classified in the MHP Mobile Home Park District is deemed incorporated into the MHP Manufactured Home Park District for all intents and purposes; and uses must conform to the standards of this chapter and code. A manufactured home park is permitted on such lot, tract or land provided that it conforms to the requirements in effect at the commencement of the use.

No existing legally established use which conformed to zoning provisions immediately prior to the incorporation into the MHP Manufactured Home Park District of such lot, tract or land is considered non-conforming for the purposes of remodeling, alteration, addition or reconstruction.

(Ord. 1633-88; Ord. 179-03 § 6.)