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Pennsbury Township City Zoning Code

ARTICLE IX

Mobile Home Park District MHP

§ 162-901 Purpose.

The purpose of the Mobile Home Park District is to provide adequate facilities for mobile homes, to promote a safe and attractive neighborhood environment that will complement surrounding properties, and to encourage preservation of open space areas by centralizing mobile homes and encouraging desirable conditions for good design and properly maintained mobile home parks in concert with the Pennsbury Township Comprehensive Plan of 2006, as amended.

§ 162-902 Use regulations.

A building may be erected or used, and a lot or premises may be used, for one of the following principal uses and for no other:
A. 
Uses by right.
(1) 
Mobile home park in conformance with this article and § 162-2031, provided it is served by public or community sewage and water systems.
(2) 
Individual mobile home.
(3) 
Single-family detached dwelling under conventional development, in conformance with Article VIII.
(4) 
Agricultural/farming uses, nonintensive, in conformance with Article VIII.
(5) 
Forestry/timber harvesting in conformance with Article XV.
(6) 
Municipal uses including park and related accessory uses.
B. 
Uses by special exception when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board, subject to the standards of Article XXIV of this chapter.
(1) 
Public utility facility.
(2) 
Outdoor active recreation use, such as a campground; but not including an amusement park, mini golf course, amphitheater, shooting range or similar uses, in conformance with § 162-2034.
C. 
Accessory uses. In addition to one principal use, accessory uses shall be permitted by right unless otherwise indicated as a special exception or conditional use in this chapter and shall be in accordance with § 162-2002 unless otherwise noted:
(1) 
Accessory uses associated with mobile home park office or service buildings.
(2) 
Agricultural/farming accessory uses.
(3) 
Residential accessory uses, with the exception of § 162-2002C(9) and (15).
(4) 
Minor home occupations in conformance with the applicable standards of § 162-2024.

§ 162-903 Area and bulk regulations.

A. 
Tract size. A mobile home park shall have a tract area of not less than eight contiguous gross acres. Additions to any existing mobile home park shall contain an area of not less than five gross contiguous acres.
B. 
Gross density. The gross density shall be no more than five mobile homes per acre.
C. 
Minimum yard dimensions. Mobile home lots within a mobile home park shall be so designed that in no instance shall the exterior walls of mobile home units or additions thereto come within 25 feet of the exterior walls of an adjacent mobile home. No mobile home, office or service building shall be closer than 25 feet to the cartway of any street, and no closer than 50 feet to the mobile home park boundary.
D. 
Accessory buildings. Accessory buildings or structures shall be located to the side or rear of the principal structure and not less than 15 feet from any principal structure on an adjacent mobile home lot.
E. 
Maximum height. No mobile home or accessory structure shall exceed 15 feet in height, while no mobile home park office or service building shall exceed 25 feet in height.
F. 
Minimum habitable floor area. No mobile home shall be permitted within a mobile home park unless it contains at least 700 square feet.

§ 162-904 Design standards.

Design standards contained in Article VII of Chapter 138, Subdivision and Land Development, shall apply to all mobile home parks.

§ 162-905 Additional standards.

For additional standards applicable to permitted uses in this district, refer to:
A. 
Article XV, Natural Resources Protection, including the Groundwater Protection Overlay.
B. 
Article XVI, Flood Hazard Overlay District.
C. 
Article XIX, General Regulations, including lighting, screening and buffering, access, and parking.
D. 
Article XX, Supplemental Uses.
E. 
Article XXI, Signs.
F. 
Article XXII, Nonconforming Uses, Buildings and Structures, Lots, and Signs.
G. 
Article XVII, Historic Resources Overlay District.