It is the intent of the R-5 Mobile Home Park District to provide for a variety of housing choices by City residents, for the protection of the residents of any mobile home park, and for the construction of mobile home parks in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Mobile Home Commission Act, being Act 96 of the Public Acts of 1987, as amended, mobile home parks shall be considered a permitted land use and shall be located near essential community services and on major streets as defined in the City of Coopersville Major Thoroughfare Plan. Mobile home parks shall meet the standards and conditions of this chapter and Chapters 1264, 1284 and 1286 of this Zoning Code.

(Ord. 207. Passed 10-14-91.)

Land in the R-5 District may be used for the following purposes only, subject to the Site Plan Review provisions of Chapter 1284:

(a)

Mobile home parks.

(b)

Accessory uses as provided in Section 1250.04.

(Ord. 207. Passed 10-14-91.)

Special land uses in the R-5 District are as follows:

(a)

Educational and welfare public facilities (see Chapter 1266).

(b)

Recreation public facilities (see Chapter 1266).

(Ord. 207. Passed 10-14-91.)

(a)

No mobile home shall be placed, parked or installed in a mobile home park until such time as a building permit is obtained from the Building Inspector. Such permit shall be issued by the Building Inspector after making a finding that said mobile home meets construction standards as approved by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development regulations entitled "Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards," or has been certified by a manufacturer as constructed according to the requirements of either HUD or ANSI standards.

(b)

Every mobile home shall be at least fourteen feet in width and have a minimum of 600 square feet of living area exclusive of porches and cabanas.

(c)

No mobile home shall be occupied by any person as a residence or for any other purpose until such time as said mobile home park has received a license to operate a mobile home park operator pursuant to the applicable requirements of the Mobile Home Commission Act, being Act 96 of the Public Acts of 1987, as amended, and until a copy of said license is submitted to the Building Inspector.

(Ord. 207. Passed 10-14-91.)

Any application for the extension, alteration or construction of a mobile home park shall be accompanied by a preliminary site plan of the proposed development and all permanent buildings, indicating the proposed methods of compliance with these requirements. Said site plan shall be in conformance with the provisions and requirements of the Mobile Home Commission Act, being Act 96 of the Public Acts of 1987, as amended, and with the site plan review provisions and standards of Chapters 1284, 1286 and 1287 of this Zoning Code.

(Ord. 207. Passed 10-14-91.)

(a)

The minimum land area for a mobile home park shall be ten acres. The minimum lot width for portions used for general vehicular entrances and exits only is sixty-six feet.

(b)

The minimum number of mobile home spaces shall be fifty.

(c)

Each mobile home park shall have direct access to a major street as defined in the City of Coopersville Major Thoroughfare Plan.

(d)

Minimum street widths within the mobile home park shall be in accordance with the following schedule:

NOTE: Curbed does not include any gutter area.
Uncurbed does not include the curb and gutter.

(e)

The maximum building height shall be twenty-five feet.

(f)

The mobile home park shall be developed with sites averaging 5,500 square feet per lot. This 5,500 square feet standard for any one site may be reduced by twenty percent, provided said site shall be equal to at least 4,400 square feet. For each square foot of land area gained through the reduction of a site below 5,500 square feet, at least an equal amount of land shall be dedicated open space. In no case, however, shall the open space and distance requirements be less than that required under the Rules of the Michigan Mobile Home Code. No more than one mobile home shall be placed on any one site or be inhabited by more than one family.

(g)

The minimum setback between any part of any mobile home and/or any structure permanently or temporarily attached thereto (excluding a hitch), including, but not limited to, storage sheds, cabanas and porches, shall be as follows:

(1)

Twenty feet from any other mobile home and/or structure permanently or temporarily attached thereto (excluding a hitch), including, but not limited to, storage sheds, cabanas and porches.

(2)

Ten feet from an on-site parking space of an adjacent mobile home park site.

(3)

Ten feet from a detached accessory structure.

(4)

Fifty feet from a permanent building.

(5)

One hundred feet from a baseball or softball field.

(6)

Ten feet from the edge of an internal road.

(7)

Seven and one-half feet from a parking bay.

(8)

Twenty feet from a lake or waterway.

(h)

Each lot shall front on sidewalks at least five feet in width, located directly next to an parallel to the street. When otherwise in accordance with this Zoning Code, approved pedestrian ways shall be counted as common recreation facilities and may also be used for utility easements.

(i)

The front, back and side yards of every lot shall be landscaped with grass and properly maintained thereafter, and there shall be at least one canopy shade tree provided for every two lots. Canopy shade trees shall be located to provide shade for mobile home sites.

(j)

The mobile home park shall provide a landscaped buffer zone strip along and within the perimeter of the mobile home park property. The buffer strip shall be properly planted with trees or shrubbery or other nursery stock, to provide a continuous obscuring screen that will reach a minimum height of five feet in four years. No part of the buffer strip shall be used for any structure, right-of-way or parking purposes. The buffer strip shall be properly maintained thereafter by the owner or operator of the mobile home park.

(1)

The width of the buffer strip shall be in accordance with the following schedule:

(2)

The buffer strip shall contain the equivalent of one canopy shade tree, rounded upward, per every thirty linear feet of buffer strip length.

(k)

The mobile home park shall have dedicated one or more open space areas intended primarily for the use of mobile home park residents with a minimum area of not less that 25,000 square feet, or two percent of the mobile home park's gross acreage, whichever is greater, provided that buffer zone strip areas shall not be included as part of such requirement.

(l)

Street that are to be dedicated to the City, if any, shall be constructed in accordance with the Subdivision Regulations of the City, and such plans shall be reviewed and approved by the City Engineer.

(m)

Open areas created by meeting required setbacks from property boundary lines shall be landscaped with grass and properly maintained thereafter by the owner or operator of the park.

(n)

All streets within the mobile home park shall be of bituminous aggregate or similar surface meeting the City of Coopersville street construction specifications.

(o)

One detached accessory building, not exceeding 150 square feet, may be placed on a mobile home park lot, including, but not limited to, storage sheds and cabanas.

(Ord. 207. Passed 10-14-91.)

(a)

All utilities in mobile home parks shall be underground.

(b)

All mobile home parks shall be provided with public water, sanitary sewer service and adequate private or public stormwater facilities. Such facilities shall be constructed in accordance with the City of Coopersville ordinances and regulations or Michigan Department of Public Health (MDPH) Mobile Home Park Standards, whichever are more restrictive.

(Ord. 207. Passed 10-14-91.)

(a)

All street intersections and designated pedestrian crosswalks shall be illuminated by not less than 0.25 footcandles.

(b)

All roads, parking bays and pedestrian walkways shall be illuminated by not less than 0.15 footcandles.

(Ord. 207. Passed 10-14-91.)

Signs in the Mobile Home Parks District shall be designed, erected, altered, moved and maintained in accordance with the regulations as set forth in Chapter 1282.

(Ord. 207. Passed 10-14-91; Ord. 539. Passed 1-13-25.)

The following provisions apply to all mobile home parks, as limited by Sections 17(2), 36 and 45 of the Mobile Home Commission Act, being Act 96 of the Public Acts of 1987, as amended:

(a)

The Building Inspector or such other person designated by the City Council shall have the right to inspect the mobile home park to determine whether or not the park owners or operators, or any owners or persons occupying mobile homes within the park, are in violation of this Zoning Code, or any State law or governmental regulation covering mobile home parks and affecting the health, safety and welfare of inhabitants, under the following conditions:

(1)

He or she has reasonable reason to believe that the owner, operator or resident of a mobile home in the park is in violation of any part of this Zoning Code or other Municipal ordinance.

(2)

Notice has been sent to the owner or operator of the mobile home park at his or her last known address, and to the owner or resident of the mobile home park at his or her last known address as shown on the occupancy permit for said mobile home, and the City has not received satisfactory proof or indication that the purported violation is not a violation, or that the purported violation has been corrected within thirty days from the date of mailing said notice.

(b)

All persons, including, but not limited to, City officials or police officers, whose entry upon the mobile home park property is necessary, proper or advisable in the execution of their governmental duties, or in the execution of work authorized by a governmental body, or for the preservation of the peace, shall have the right to enter upon and inspect the mobile home park at all reasonable times.

(Ord. 207. Passed 10-14-91.)

(a)

No person desiring to rent a mobile home site shall be required, as a condition to such rental, to purchase a mobile home from the owner or operator of the mobile home park in which said mobile home site is located.

(b)

Subject to Section 28 of the Mobile Home Commission Act, being Act 96 of the Public Acts of 1987, as amended, nothing contained in this Zoning Code shall be deemed to prohibit the sale of a mobile home located on a mobile home lot by the individual owner or his or her agent, or to prohibit home occupations permitted in this Zoning Code, provided that such sales and occupations are permitted by the park regulations and provided, further, that a commercial mobile home sales lot shall not be permitted in conjunction with any mobile home park.

(Ord. 207. Passed 10-14-91.)