The purpose of residential-manufactured home district, R-MH, is to provide for moderately low density residential manufactured home development in both manufactured home parks and subdivisions including manufactured homes, along with such churches, recreational facilities, public uses, and accessory uses as may be necessary or are normally compatible with residential surroundings. The location of the district, the condition of the area within the district and the nature of surrounding land uses should be such that loss of farmland and adverse impact on surrounding property will be minimal. In general, a wooded area or partially wooded area is to be preferred to an open site in order to preserve farmland, reduce visual impact on existing development and provide an attractive environment within the manufactured home park or subdivision.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-4.1; Ord. of 9-28-98(2))

In the residential-manufactured home district R-MH, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one (1) or more of the following uses:

(1)

Manufactured home parks, with a conditional use permit.

(2)

Manufactured home subdivisions.

(3)

Modular homes.

(4)

Churches and Sunday schools, rectories, parish houses, convents and monasteries, temples and synagogues and cemeteries accessory thereto.

(5)

Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service, including poles, wires, transformers, telephone booths and the like for electrical power distribution or communication service, and underground pipelines or conduits for electrical, gas, sewer, or water service, but not including buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations which are permitted with a conditional use permit.

(6)

Home occupation, urban.

(7)

Nursery schools, kindergartens, child care centers, day nursery, or child day care centers with a conditional use permit.

(8)

Public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire stations (volunteer or otherwise), parks, parkways, playgrounds and public boat landings except those which have been approved as a part of the subdivision plan, with a conditional use permit.

(9)

School bus passenger shelter without advertising.

(10)

Yard sale or garage sale for disposal of used household items, provided such sales are not held more frequently than twice a year on the same lot, are not conducted for more than three (3) days, and include items assembled only from households in the immediate neighborhood.

(11)

Accessory buildings and uses, including, but not limited to, accessory private garages and other structures, swimming pools, accessory storage and accessory off-street parking and loading spaces and accessory nonilluminated or indirectly illuminated signs as follows, and subject to other provisions of this article:

a.

A name plate or directional sign, limited in area to two (2) square feet, to identify the owner or occupant of a manufactured home, dwelling or building.

b.

No trespassing or no hunting signs, without limitations on number or placement, limited in area to two (2) square feet.

c.

A sign, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet for identification of a manufactured home park or subdivision.

d.

A sign, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet, for a church bulletin board or identification of a permitted public or semipublic use, nursery school, kindergarten or day care center.

e.

Temporary nonilluminated signs, limited in area to four (4) square feet, directing the way to premises which are for sale or rent.

f.

A temporary, nonilluminated sign, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet, advertising real estate for sale or lease or announcing contemplated improvements of the real estate on which it is placed.

g.

A temporary sign, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet, erected in connection with new construction work and displayed on the premises only during such time as the actual construction work is in progress.

h.

Temporary nonilluminated paper signs.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-4.2)

(a)

The location of the manufactured home park, the condition of the site, and the nature of surrounding land uses shall be such that loss of farmland and adverse impact on surrounding property will be minimal. In general, a wooded site or partially wooded site is to be preferred to an open site in order to preserve farmland, reduce visual impact on existing development and provide an attractive environment within the park.

(b)

Conditions of soil, groundwater level, drainage and topography shall not create hazards to the property or the health and safety of the manufactured home park occupants. The manufactured home park site shall not be exposed to objectionable smoke, dust, noise, odors or other adverse influences, no portion thereof shall be subject to predictable sudden flooding or erosion, and it shall not be used for any purpose which would expose persons or property to hazards. No developed portion of a manufactured home park shall be permitted in any area designated as being in the 100-year floodplain.

(c)

The manufactured home park owner/developer shall submit a detailed plan for the proposed park or subdivision to the zoning administrator following approval of rezoning and upon application for a conditional use permit, in accordance with the following:

(1)

The name, address and telephone number of the applicant.

(2)

Location and legal description of the park, including a map to scale, showing the physical characteristics of the property, including topography, vegetation and wetland. This legal description shall be certified by a registered land surveyor licensed by the state.

(3)

The area and dimensions of the tract of land.

(4)

The number, location and size of all proposed manufactured home lots.

(5)

The location of accessory buildings and other proposed recreational structures or areas or service buildings.

(6)

The location and width of roadways.

(7)

The location of water lines, sewer lines and riser pipes. If septic tanks and drain field are proposed to be utilized, a soils map prepared by a certified soils scientist shall be prepared and submitted.

(8)

Plans and specifications of the water supply, refuse and sewage disposal facilities approved by the health department.

(9)

The location and details of street lighting and other electrical systems.

(10)

The phasing of development, if any.

(11)

Maintenance plan in accordance with this article.

(12)

Buffer zones and fencing.

(13)

Erosion and sedimentation plan.

(14)

Such other information as may be required by the zoning administrator.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-4.3)

(a)

The minimum size for a manufactured home park shall be seven (7) acres.

(b)

Each manufactured home park shall provide a minimum of twenty thousand (20,000) square feet of area to be used for recreational purposes by the occupants of the manufactured home park. Additional recreational area may be required for developments larger than seven (7) acres.

(c)

The minimum lot size in a manufactured home park shall be seven thousand (7,000) square feet with a minimum width of seventy (70) feet. Larger lot size may be required if soil conditions, as determined by the county health department, indicate additional area is needed for proper sewage disposal.

(d)

No manufactured home shall be closer than thirty (30) feet to another manufactured home.

(e)

For corner lots, the minimum width shall be ninety (90) feet, and no structure shall be located nearer than twenty (20) feet to the side lot line on the street side of the lot. The front of the lot shall be the shorter of the two (2) sides facing streets.

(f)

A setback of one hundred (100) feet shall be observed from the right-of-way line of any state road bordering the manufactured home park site for each manufactured home or other structure.

(g)

For each manufactured home, a setback of a minimum of fifteen (15) feet shall be observed from any side lot line.

(h)

A setback of a minimum of fifteen (15) feet shall be observed from any rear lot line for each manufactured home located on a lot.

(i)

For each manufactured home, a setback of fifteen (15) feet shall be observed from the front lot line fronting on any internal street.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-4.4)

(a)

Streets:

(1)

All manufactured home parks shall be provided with safe and convenient vehicular access from abutting state streets or roads.

(2)

All internal streets serving manufactured home lots shall be constructed in accordance with the subdivision street requirements as adopted by the Virginia Department of Transportation except for width, which shall conform to item (9) herein below. It shall be the responsibility of the park owner/manager to properly maintain all internal streets and driveways.

(3)

All manufactured home parks containing forty (40) or more manufactured home lots shall have access from two (2) points along a single state street or highway, or if bordering on two (2) streets, access may be one (1) for each street, such access points being separated by at least four hundred (400) feet unless otherwise approved by the planning commission and board of supervisors.

(4)

Every entrance to a manufactured home park shall have direct connections to a state street and shall be designed to allow free movement of traffic on such adjacent state street. No parking shall be permitted on the entrance street of a manufactured home park for a distance of fifty (50) feet from the point of beginning.

(5)

The street system shall provide convenient circulation by means of minor streets and properly located collector streets. Dead-end streets shall be limited in length to eight hundred (800) feet, unless otherwise approved by the planning commission and board of supervisors, and their closed end shall be provided with an adequate turn-around of at least eighty (80) feet in diameter.

(6)

Each manufactured home space in a park shall have direct access to an interior park roadway or interior public street; no manufactured home space shall have direct individual access to an exterior state street.

(7)

Grades of all streets shall be sufficient to insure adequate surface drainage, but should not be more than eight (8) percent.

(8)

Street intersections should generally be at right angles, and in no case shall any angle or intersection be less than seventy-five (75) degrees.

(9)

Interior park streets shall be constructed to Virginia Department of Transportation standards at a width of:

a.

Thirty-six (36) feet if parking is to be allowed on both sides of such street.

b.

Twenty (20) feet if no parking is to be permitted along the street.

c.

Twenty-eight (28) feet with parking on one (1) side of the street.

(b)

Parking:

(1)

Two (2) off-street parking spaces shall be provided for each manufactured home space.

(2)

Parking may be in tandem.

(3)

Each parking space shall have dimensions of at least ten (10) feet by twenty (20) feet and shall be of all-weather construction, with rock, stone, asphalt, rock and tar or other construction approved by the board of supervisors.

(4)

A minimum area of twenty thousand (20,000) square feet shall be provided by the park owner to be used by the park occupants for storage of boats, boat trailers, travel trailers, camper shells and the like. More area may be required for developments larger than seven (7) acres. Such area shall be fenced and night lighting provided. No occupant of the manufactured home park shall be permitted to keep on his manufactured home space any of the abovementioned items, except during maintenance or repair of the same. In no case shall the item(s) be allowed to remain on the manufactured home space for maintenance or repair longer than three (3) days.

(c)

Buffer zones. Every manufactured home park shall be provided with screening which visually screens the uses by means of a planted or natural growth of trees or shrubbery at least fifty (50) feet in width along the property boundary line on all sides open to view from a public road. This space shall be in addition to space required for each manufactured home site and shall not be used for other park facilities or accessory storage structures or parking areas. The site plan shall include a landscape plan for this open space indicating planting of shade trees and lower plant materials for open portions of the space and a plan for tree maintenance in wooded portions. Continued maintenance of the open area and its plantings shall be the responsibility of the owner or operator of the park.

(d)

Recreational areas:

(1)

Recreational areas in accordance with section 18-104(b) shall be provided.

(2)

Recreational areas may include space for community buildings, swimming pools, hobby and repair shops, service buildings, playground equipment, tot lots, tennis courts, basketball courts and the like.

(e)

Landscaping. Manufactured home parks shall be landscaped to provide an attractive setting for manufactured homes and other improvements, to provide adequate privacy and pleasant outlooks for living units, to minimize reflected glare and to afford summer shade. Such landscaping shall include the planting and maintenance of at least the following: Trees and shrubs at suitable intervals along park streets, within recreational areas and around park borders, special planting to screen objectionable views such as garbage and trash collection stations, nonresidential uses and any unsightly objects or conditions on adjacent properties; and lawns on all areas which are not roadways or parking areas or used for manufactured home standards or other buildings and the like. Each manufactured home site shall provide at least two (2) shade trees and provide an appropriate outdoor living space to supplement limited interior space of a manufactured home. The minimum size of each such space shall be two hundred fifty (250) square feet. Every such space shall be convenient to the entrance of the manufactured home, appropriately related to open areas of the lot and other facilities off the lot, and adapted to terrain and natural features and to anticipated manufactured home models.

(f)

Storm water drainage. As in accordance with chapter 14 of this Code.

(g)

Lot requirements:

(1)

No more than one (1) manufactured home may be placed on a lot.

(2)

No manufactured home shall be permitted in a park with less than five hundred (500) square feet of permanent enclosed living area.

(3)

All manufactured homes shall be anchored in accordance with the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code and the open space beneath the home enclosed with a material manufactured for the express purpose of manufactured home skirting.

(4)

One (1) accessory building with a minimum area of forty (40) square feet, and not to exceed one hundred fifty (150) square feet in area, shall be constructed on each manufactured home site. All accessory buildings are to be securely anchored to concrete slabs. No accessory building shall be nearer than six (6) feet to any property line. Every accessory building shall be at the rear of the lot.

(h)

Utilities:

(1)

Each manufactured home space shall be provided with approved connection for central water and central or on-site sewer in accordance with the regulations of the county health department.

(2)

All electrical and telephone utilities shall be underground, in accordance with appropriate utility company requirements, excepting street light structures. All electrical lines serving street lights, however, shall be underground.

(3)

The gas distribution system shall conform with the requirements of the building code.

(4)

Fuel oil systems shall be installed and maintained in accordance with the building code. The minimum oil supply tank size shall be two hundred fifty (250) gallons. Tanks shall be placed on solid foundations. Tanks and tank holding structures shall be painted and properly maintained and shall be located at the rear of the manufactured home.

(i)

Refuse disposal:

(1)

The storage, collection and disposal of refuse in the manufactured home park shall be so conducted as to create no health hazard, rodent harborage, insect breeding areas, accident or fire hazards or air pollution.

(2)

No refuse or other organic material shall be placed, stored or dumped in other than refuse containers. The existence of any refuse or rubbish outside a container for more than twenty-four (24) hours shall be a violation of this article.

(j)

Fire protection:

(1)

Manufactured home parks and subdivisions shall be kept free of litter, rubbish and other flammable materials.

(2)

Fires shall be made only in stoves and other equipment intended for such purposes.

(3)

Trash shall not be burned in open containers.

(4)

Leaves, limbs and the like shall not be burned within the manufactured home park by park residents, unless within containers designed for the same.

(k)

Responsibilities of park owner and management:

(1)

The person to whom a rezoning and conditional use permit applicable to the R-MH district to operate a manufactured home park is granted, or any subsequent owner, shall operate the park in compliance with this section and regulations issued hereunder and shall provide adequate supervision to maintain the park, its facilities and equipment in good repair and in a clean and sanitary condition.

(2)

The park management shall supervise the placement of each manufactured home on its manufactured home stand.

(3)

The owner of a manufactured home park shall develop a regular program of park maintenance, which shall attend to such items as grass cutting, maintaining buffer zones and open drainage ditches, roadway and parking areas, repairs and whatever regular maintenance operations are required by the water system, sewer system and other services provided by the park owner. This maintenance program shall be presented to the zoning administrator at the time of application for the rezoning.

(4)

No recreational vehicles shall be permitted in a manufactured home park, except in areas designed and approved for the same by the board of supervisors.

(5)

No manufactured home shall be admitted to any park, unless it can be demonstrated that it meets the requirements of this section.

(6)

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any manufactured home park within the county, unless he holds a valid permit issued by the board of supervisors.

(7)

Whenever, upon inspection of any manufactured home park, the zoning administrator finds that conditions or practices exist which are in violation of any of the provisions of this article or regulations issued hereunder, the zoning administrator shall give notice in writing to the person who is in charge of the manufactured home park that, unless such conditions or practices are corrected within thirty (30) days, legal proceedings will be instituted.

(8)

It shall be the duty of each manufactured home park owner/manager to keep a register containing a record of all manufactured home owners and occupants located within the park. The register shall contain the following information:

a.

The name and legal address of each occupant.

b.

The name and address of the owner of each manufactured home, if different.

c.

The make, type model, year and serial number of each manufactured home.

d.

The park owner or his agent shall keep the register available for inspection at all times by law enforcement officers, public health officials and other officials whose duties necessitate acquisition of the information contained in the register.

(9)

Street signs in accordance with chapter 14 of this Code shall be installed and maintained.

(10)

Manufactured home lots shall be numbered with the number also placed on the utility pedestal. These numbers shall be provided by the county in accordance with addressing standards for 911 emergency response. The numbers shall be so placed on the manufactured home as to be clearly visible from the street upon which the lot fronts.

(11)

An area shall be provided for central location of all mailboxes serving park occupants. This area shall not interfere with the convenient flow of traffic along streets serving the park.

(12)

A copy of other park rules and regulations shall be submitted to the zoning administrator at the time of filing for rezoning to R-MH, and to each family residing in the manufactured home park.

(l)

Responsibilities of park occupants. Every park occupant shall comply with all applicable requirements of this section and regulations issued hereunder and shall maintain his manufactured home and lot, its facilities and equipment in good repair and in a clean and sanitary condition.

(m)

Inspection of manufactured home parks. The zoning administrator is hereby authorized and directed to make such inspections as are necessary to determine satisfactory compliance with this section and regulations issued hereunder. The zoning administrator shall have the power to enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property for the purpose of inspecting and investigating conditions relating to the enforcement of this section and regulations issued hereunder.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-4.5)

(a)

The minimum site for a manufactured home subdivision shall be ten (10) acres.

(b)

Except along the common boundary with an adjacent manufactured homes subdivision or manufactured homes park or along a public road outside the subdivision, the design of the subdivision shall include around its periphery an area of permanent open space at least one hundred (100) feet in depth which is either reserved as permanent common open space or protected by easements against construction. Added depth shall be provided for peripheral lots if necessary to accomplish this requirement. This open space is to include natural wooded area or a planted visual screen. No manufactured home shall be located closer than one hundred forty (140) feet from a state road or street other than a subdivision street and no lot on which a manufactured home is to be placed shall be designed for direct access to a street or road outside the boundary of the subdivision.

(c)

The minimum lot size and lot width in a manufactured home subdivision shall be:

Larger lot size may be required if soil conditions, as determined by the health department, indicate additional area is needed for proper sewage disposal and provision of potable water.

(d)

The minimum setback from the front property line shall be fifty (50) feet.

(e)

The minimum side yard requirements shall be thirty (30) feet, with no side yard being less than ten (10) feet. The side yard on a corner lot shall be forty-five (45) feet, with the setback on the side on the corner no less than thirty (30) feet.

(f)

The minimum rear yard shall be thirty-five (35) feet.

(g)

The platting and other requirements, such as bonds, streets, signs, storm drainage, etc., shall be in accordance with chapter 14 of this Code.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-4.6)

Editor's note— An ordinance adopted on June 26, 2017, repealed §§ 18-107—18-113 and similar provisions have been enacted in ch. 2.6. Former §§ 18-107—18-113 pertained to agricultural-forestal districts, boundaries, applicability of subdivision and zoning ordinances, right-of-way recommendations, withdrawal procedures, use of land within an agricultural district, and review of districts and derived from Ord. of 1-23-17(1).