(a)

Purpose. The Mobile Home Park (MH-2) District is intended to allow for developments where spaces are sold or rented for the placement of a mobile home in a park-like setting, where the homes are used as seasonal or permanent residences.

(b)

Allowed uses. See the Use Matrix - Table 16-3 of this Article.

(c)

Dimensional standards. The Mobile Home Standards within the MH-2 District are outlined above with minimum standards shown in Table 16-4 of this Article.

(d)

Use by special review. See the Use Matrix, Table 16-3.

(e)

Town services are required for each mobile home and other principal uses.

(f)

General provisions. The requirements as outlined in Subsection 16-1-120(f) above are applicable to the designated uses in Table 16-3.

(g)

Mobile home park requirements.

(1)

Maximum density shall not exceed seven (7) mobile homes per gross acre.

(2)

No mobile home shall be occupied unless situated on a mobile home space within an MH-2 District.

(3)

Each mobile home space shall contain a minimum area of four thousand (4,000) square feet and shall have a minimum width of forty (40) feet.

(4)

Each mobile home shall be located a minimum distance of ten (10) feet from each boundary of the mobile home space upon which it is situated.

(5)

No mobile home shall be located less than twenty (20) feet from an exterior boundary of a mobile home park which abuts a public right-of-way, nor less than fifteen (15) feet from any other exterior boundary.

(6)

Each mobile home park shall provide a yard not less than twenty-five (25) feet in width along each boundary abutting a public right-of-way; such yards shall be landscaped except for those portions used for ingress and egress. All mobile home units and accessory buildings or uses shall face upon and take access from an interior roadway.

(7)

Each mobile home park shall have one (1) separate entrance and exit roadway, each of which shall be not less than forty (40) feet wide from flow line to flow line and shall connect to a dedicated public right-of-way not less than fifty (50) feet in width and shall be hard-surfaced with asphalt or concrete in the event that the Town does the same.

(8)

Interior roadways shall be not less than thirty-six (36) feet wide from flow line to flow line, except that when such roadways are restricted to one-way traffic or when two (2) off-roadway parking spaces are provided on each mobile home space, interior roadway widths may be reduced to thirty (30) feet. All private interior roadways and driveways shall be hard-surfaced with asphalt or concrete in the event that the Town does the same.

(9)

Minimum off-street parking: Refer to Article VI of this Chapter.

(10)

A storage area for trailers of all types, boats, detached pickup campers, motor homes, etc., shall be provided in an amount equal to one hundred (100) square feet per mobile home space. Such storage area shall be hard-surfaced and be screened from view by a solid fence not less than six (6) feet in height in the event that the Town does the same.

(11)

An area or areas amounting to not less than ten percent (10%) of the gross area of the mobile home park, excluding any area dedicated as public right-of-way, shall be provided for recreation use. Such areas shall not include any area designated as a mobile home space, storage area or required yard.

(12)

All public utilities within the mobile home park shall be underground.

(13)

Service, utility and recreation buildings and appurtenances, garbage and trash containers, rodent and insect control, and water and sewage provisions must comply with all regulations of the State, County and Town.

(14)

Maximum height of any building shall be twenty-five (25) feet.

(15)

All trash, refuse and storage shall be kept in closed containers or within a building or area enclosed by a solid fence at least six (6) feet in height.

(16)

Wheels may be removed from mobile homes, but running gear may be removed only for a reasonable period of time for repair purposes.

(17)

No permanent addition of any kind shall be built onto, or become part of, any mobile home. Skirting of a mobile home is required, but such skirting shall not attach the mobile home permanently to the ground, provide a harborage for rodents or create a fire hazard.

(18)

No trailer of any type, boat or detached pickup camper shall be kept, stored or parked on any public right-of-way or private roadway within a mobile home park for more than twenty-four (24) hours.

(19)

Walkways not less than thirty (30) inches in width shall be provided from mobile home spaces to service buildings and on both sides of all streets within a mobile home park. Such walkways shall be hard-surfaced with asphalt or concrete and lighted at night with a minimum illumination of at least six-tenths (0.6) foot-candle. Twenty-five-watt lamps at intervals of not more than one hundred (100) feet shall meet requirements.

(20)

Every mobile home park shall provide sanitary facilities for emergency use in a service building or office building; such facilities shall consist of at least one (1) flush-type toilet and one (1) lavatory and be accessible twenty-four (24) hours per day.

(21)

Exposed ground surfaces in all parts of a mobile home park shall be hard-surfaced with asphalt or concrete or other solid material, or shall be protected with crushed fine, small stones or vegetative growth which will prevent soil erosion and eliminate dust.

(h)

Mobile home park development plan. Before issuance of a building permit, the applicant must apply for and receive approval from the Town of a mobile home park development plan. Such plan shall be drawn at a scale of one (1) inch equals one hundred (100) feet, in India ink or other equally substantial solution on tracing cloth or Mylar. with outer dimensions of twenty-four (24) inches by thirty-six (36) inches. The plan shall be complete in detail, showing the following:

(1)

Title, scale, north arrow and date.

(2)

Legal description of the property, together with a complete reference to the book and page of records of the County.

(3)

Primary control points, or descriptions and "ties" to such control points, to which all dimensions, angles, bearings and similar data shall be referred.

(4)

Location and description of monuments.

(5)

Certification of title showing that the applicant is the land owner.

(6)

Statement by the owner dedicating public rights-of-way and any sites for public use, and deeding development rights to the Town for the areas designated for recreation use by residents of the park; acceptance of these development rights by the Town shall not mean that the Town accepts responsibility for developing and maintaining the recreation areas. The owner retains that responsibility.

(7)

Certification by a surveyor or engineer certifying to accuracy of survey and plan.

(8)

Certification for approval by the Planning Commission and the Board of Trustees.

(9)

One (1) of the following assurances concerning required improvements: a bond or certified check available to the Town in sufficient amount to guarantee completion of all required improvements; protective covenants to the effect that no mobile home space may be rented until required improvements are constructed; or such other written statement as may be approved by the Board of Trustees giving full assurance that required improvements will be completed.

(10)

Tract boundary lines and right-of-way lines of bounding and interior streets dedicated to or to be dedicated to the public, with accurate dimensions, bearings or deflection angles and radii, arcs and central angles of all curves.

(11)

Location, dimensions and purpose of any easements.

(12)

Number to identify each mobile home space.

(13)

Purpose for which sites, other than mobile home spaces, are dedicated or reserved.

(14)

Location, names and paving width, flow line to flow line, of each interior street or roadway and each access street or roadway.

(15)

Location and width of walkways.

(16)

Location and dimensions of mobile home spaces, recreation areas, storage areas and sites for other uses, and off-street parking spaces.

(17)

Proposed finished grade shown in contour intervals not to exceed two (2) feet.

(18)

Location, material (or species) and height of all walls, fences and screen plantings.

(19)

Location of all outside facilities for waste or refuse storage and description of their enclosures.

(20)

Location of each structure, the use to be contained therein, maximum height and approximate location of entrances and loading points, not including mobile homes.

(21)

Provisions for the lighting of roadways and walkways.

(22)

Location, height, size, orientation and illumination of all signs.

(23)

Type of surfacing material to be used in each area of the mobile home park.

(24)

Drainage plan showing existing and proposed installations (channels, culverts, inlets, etc.) and discharges (cfs with calculation sheets) that may affect adjacent lands.

(25)

Complete road or intersection plans where modifications or additions to the public road system are proposed.

(26)

Proposed treatment of potential floodplain areas, including construction plans and supporting data as required.

(27)

Such other information as may be requested by the Building Inspector, Fire Inspector, Planning Director, County Health Officer or Town Engineer to enable him or her to determine that the proposed mobile home park will comply with all requirements.

(Ord. 12-02 §1)