It is declared to be the specific intent of this article with respect to manufactured housing subdivision developments to establish standards of performance and promote the desirable benefits which planned manufactured housing developments may have upon the community and upon a residence within them. It is further the intent of this article to ensure the interdependence and compatibility of proposed manufactured housing subdivision developments with surrounding land uses within the County. The location of manufactured housing subdivisions will be planned in a manner that promotes safety from fire, health and general welfare; to include adequate light and air, to prevent the overcrowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of populations, and the uneconomical use of undeveloped land currently along existing highways.

(Ord. of 1-26-1994, § 1)

Principal permitted uses and structures in a R-MH district are as follows:

(1)

Manufactured housing.

(2)

Modular housing units.

(3)

Parks, playgrounds and noncommercial recreational facilities to include swimming pools, tennis courts, etc.

(4)

Accessory uses and structures.

(Ord. of 1-26-1994, § 2; Ord. No. 14-05, 10-14-2014)

Accessory uses and structures are permitted in a R-MH district as defined; however, such uses must be located at least fifteen (15) feet from the manufactured housing and at least five (5) feet from any property line. This pertains to garages and other accessory buildings. Porches and stoops attached to the mobile home are considered part of the unit.

(Ord. of 1-26-1994, § 3; Ord. No. 18-04, 5-14-2019)

(a)

Minimum area. The minimum area for a manufactured housing subdivision shall be twenty (20) acres, not including water or other undevelopable areas.

(b)

Minimum lot size. For lots contained within a small lot manufactured housing subdivision, the minimum lot area shall be two (2) acres.

(c)

Setback regulations. Manufactured housing and accessory structures shall comply with the front yard setback regulations as follows: No structures shall be located closer to the centerline of any road right-of-way on any designated primary highway than one hundred (100) feet, or seventy-five (75) feet from the centerline of any secondary road right-of-way or street right-of-way for any private road, except that temporary signs advertising sale or rent of premises may be erected up to the property line. This shall be known as the setback line.

(d)

Lot frontage; lot width.

(1)

Frontage. The minimum lot frontage for permitted uses shall be at least eighty percent (80%) of the minimum required lot width; however, the minimum lot frontage for permitted uses on a cul-de-sac shall be at least fifty (50) feet.

(2)

Width. The minimum lot width for permitted uses shall be one hundred fifty (150) feet.

(e)

Yard regulations.

(1)

Side. The minimum side yard for each mobile home shall be fifteen (15) feet, and the total width of the two (2) required side yards shall be at least thirty-five (35) feet.

(2)

Rear. Each main structure shall have a rear yard of at least thirty-five (35) feet.

(f)

Street requirements. All streets constructed within a manufactured housing subdivision shall be built to state standards. Furthermore, all lots within the manufactured housing subdivision shall have access to an interior street system with no driveway cuts permitted on existing state primary or secondary roads.

(g)

Open space. For subdivisions containing individual lots of less than three (3) acres, the subdivider shall set aside at least four percent (4%) of the gross area of the entire subdivision for common open space. The minimum amount of land required for common open space shall be one-half (0.5) acre and the common open space is to be maintained by a homeowner's association.

(h)

Greenbelt. A small lot manufactured housing subdivision shall have a greenbelt planting strip or natural vegetation consisting of not less than thirty-five (35) feet in depth which is left undisturbed, along all subdivision boundaries to include existing public roads.

(Ord. of 1-26-1994, § 4; Ord. of 1-10-2006; Ord. No. 18-04, 5-14-2019)

A detailed site plan of a manufactured housing subdivision shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for its review and action. Such a site plan shall be drawn by a surveyor or engineer duly authorized by the Commonwealth to prepare final subdivision plats. The preliminary site plan shall be drawn to a scale of not less than one hundred (100) feet to the inch and shall show, but not be limited to, the following:

(1)

The area and dimensions of the tract of land.

(2)

The location of all proposed physical improvements, including mobile home lots, stands, streets, utilities, landscaping, buffers and any other information that may be required by the Planning Commission for its review.

(Ord. of 1-26-1994, § 5)

State Law reference— Requisites of plat, Code of Virginia, § 15.2-2262.

Plats for manufactured housing subdivisions shall conform to the requirements spelled out in chapter 54.

(Ord. of 1-26-1994, § 6)

(a)

Mounting and anchorage. All manufactured housing (regardless of date of manufacture) shall be mounted and anchored in accordance with instructions provided with the unit or by the methods in The Virginia Industrialized Building Unit and Mobile Home Safety Regulations, adopted by the state Corporation Commission.

(b)

Skirts. The area between the bottom of the walls of the mobile home and ground surface must be neatly skirted with material fabricated from metal, concrete, masonry, rigid vinyl or fiberglass; such skirts must be rattle free and installed in a manner to accommodate frost heave.

(c)

Proximity to conventionally built dwellings. No manufactured housing may be placed within three hundred (300) feet of an existing conventionally built dwelling that is located outside of the manufactured housing subdivision; if less than three hundred (300) feet, it must have a buffer of evergreens of at least six (6) feet in height.

(Ord. of 1-26-1994, § 7; Ord. No. 18-04, 5-14-2019)

Editor's note— Ord. of 9-13-2005(2), § 2, repealed § 74-388, which pertained to fees and derived from Ord. of 1-26-1994, § 8; Ord. of 12-13-1995. The user's attention is directed to § 2-3.