Upper Frederick Township
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XIII
MHP Mobile Home Park Development
§ 285-114 Declaration of legislative intent.
The following is an expansion of the declaration of legislative intent contained Article I, § 285-2, of this chapter and the community development objectives contained in Article I, § 285-3, of this chapter. It is the intent of the MHP Mobile Home Park Development Regulations to establish standards of performance and promote the desirable benefits which planned mobile home parks may have upon the community. It is also the intent of this article to ensure the interdependency and compatibility of proposed mobile home park developments with essential public sewer and water facilities and surrounding land uses in the Township. Further, it is the intent of this article to:
A.
Provide for better quality and greater variety in type, design and layout of mobile home park developments than has been evident in many mobile home parks in the past by enforcing uniform standards, desirable criteria and innovative site design approaches.
B.
Provide for a diversity in housing types and prices.
C.
Provide more affordable housing to all residents of Upper Frederick Township.
§ 285-115 Use regulations.
With respect to single-family mobile home dwelling units or a mobile home park development as defined in this chapter, the following use regulations shall apply:
A.
General regulations. A single-family mobile home is a permitted use in any residential district, provided that it meets the applicable requirements for single-family detached dwellings.
B.
Mobile home park requirements. Mobile home parks are permitted use only in the R-40 Residential District, provided that they are placed on a permanent foundation and that the requirements outlined in this article are met.
C.
Accessory uses. Accessory uses and structures customarily incidental to the maintenance, servicing and well-being of mobile home park residents shall be permitted only as part of an approved development plan for the mobile home park site.
D.
Commercial uses prohibited. Commercial uses are prohibited in all mobile home parks.
§ 285-116 Development regulations.
[Amended 8-14-2003 by Ord. No. 03-04]
The following density, area, width and yard regulations shall apply to any proposed mobile home park development.
A.
Minimum acreage. A proposed mobile home park development site shall have a minimum of 10 contiguous gross acres.
[Amended 1-14-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-01]
B.
Density. The proposed mobile home park development shall have a maximum density of four dwelling units per net lot acre.
[Amended 1-14-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-01]
C.
Area, width and yard regulations. The following regulations shall apply:
(1)
Lot size. No mobile home lot shall be less than 6,000 square feet in net lot area.
[Amended 1-14-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-01]
(2)
Lot width. No mobile home lot shall be less than 60 feet wide.
(3)
Front yard. No mobile home lot shall have front yard of less than 20 feet measured from the street ultimate right-of-way line. No more than four homes in a row shall have he same front setback, and the variations in front setbacks shall be at least four feet.
(4)
Rear yard. No mobile home lot shall have a rear yard of less than 20 feet.
(5)
Side yard. Each mobile home lot shall have two side yards which shall not be less than 30 feet in aggregate width nor less than 10 feet in minimum width.
(6)
Corner lots. Each corner lot shall have two front yards, two side yards, and no rear yards.
(7)
Building coverage. Building coverage shall not exceed 30% of the total net lot area.
[Amended 1-14-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-01]
D.
E.
Clustering of mobile home lots. Mobile home parks that are 20 acres in size or larger shall be divided into clusters of 40 lots, with each cluster separated from adjoining clusters by a seventy-five-foot-wide strip of open space. Whenever possible, this strip of open space shall be used for the mobile home park's pedestrian circulation.
F.
Height of units. No mobile home shall exceed the height of 25 feet.
G.
Parking.
(1)
Not less than two off-street automobile parking spaces shall be required for each mobile home dwelling unit.
(2)
If a twenty-six-foot width is used on interior roads and parking is allowed on these roads, then a visitor parking area is not required. Wherever a twenty-foot paving width is used, three-tenths parking spaces per dwelling unit on the twenty-foot roads must be provided in an off-street visitor parking area.
(3)
Any parking area of five or more cars shall not be located closer than 10 feet from any lot line or 15 feet from a street ultimate right-of-way line.
(4)
For parking areas with 10 or more parking spaces, not less than 10% of the area devoted to parking facilities shall consist of interior parking lot landscaping.
§ 285-117 General requirements.
In the proposed mobile home park the following general requirement shall apply:
A.
Utilities. All dwelling units within the mobile home park development shall be served by a public, central or community sanitary sewage disposal system and by public, central or community water supply facilities. All utility lines (electric, telephone, etc.) serving the mobile home park subsequent to the enactment of this chapter shall be placed underground.
C.
Access. Provision shall be made for sale and efficient ingress and egress to and from public streets and highway servicing the mobile home park development without causing undue interference or confusion with the normal traffic flow. The Planning Commission shall satisfy itself concerning the adequacy of the thoroughfare to carry the additional traffic generated by the proposed development, as well as to the street frontage of the proposed development.
D.
Provision of open space and recreation areas. Provision shall be made for onsite open space and recreation areas according to the following standards:
E.
Common areas and facilities. The provision of certain facilities serving the entire development, such as parking lots, interior pedestrian ways, driveways, lighting facilities, landscaped planting areas, buffers and open space and recreation facilities, etc., are hereby encouraged and may be located either on individual lots or in common areas.
F.
Landscaped planting areas. Shade trees shall be provided along street frontage occupied by a mobile home park development developed subsequent to the enactment of this chapter. The use of landscaped planting areas by the mobile home park developer throughout the proposed mobile home park is encouraged.
G.
Buffer area. A mobile home park development developed subsequent to the enactment of this chapter shall provide a landscaped, planted buffer area of at least 15 feet in depth, designed for screening from view any residential, commercial and industrial uses which are adjoining and contiguous to the development.
H.
Pedestrian circulation. All mobile home park development shall provide pedestrian walkways that may parallel roads, where they shall only be required on one side, or they may form a separate but coordinated system away from streets.