Franklin, VA Zoning Ordinance#

ARTICLE I#

Districts and District Maps

ARTICLE II#

General Provisions

ARTICLE III#

R-O One-Family Residential District Use Regulations

ARTICLE IV#

R-1 Limited Residential District Use Regulations

ARTICLE V#

R-2 General Residential District Use Regulations

ARTICLE VI#

R-3 Mixed-Residential District Use Regulations

ARTICLE VII#

M-U Mixed Use Planned Unit Development

ARTICLE VIII#

B-1 Neighborhood Business District Use Regulations

ARTICLE IX#

B-2 Central Business District Use Regulations

ARTICLE X#

B-3 General Business District Use Regulations

ARTICLE XI#

M-1 Light Industrial District Use Regulations

ARTICLE XII#

M-2 Heavy Industrial District Use Regulations

ARTICLE XIII#

RC Resource Conservation District Use Regulations

ARTICLE XVI#

Mobile Home Regulations

§ 16.1 Permitted mobile home location.#

All residential mobile homes shall be located in a mobile home court, which has received a conditional use permit§ and which conforms with the requirements of the following section. No such mobile home outside of an approved mobile home court shall be stored, kept or used in any manner or connected to utilities, except those mobile homes being offered for sale and not inhabited.§

§ 16.2 Minimum standards for mobile home courts.#

(a) Each lot provided for the occupancy of a single mobile home unit shall have an area of not less than 5,000 square feet and width of not less than 50 feet. No park shall be permitted an average density of mobile home lots of more than eight per acre. Each mobile home court shall provide an area of not less than five acres.§

(b) No mobile home or any structure, addition or appurtenance thereto shall be located less than ten feet from the nearest adjacent lot boundary.§

(c) Space between mobile homes may be used for the parking of motor vehicles if the space is clearly designated and the vehicle is parked at least ten feet from the nearest adjacent lot boundary.§

(d) Each mobile home lot shall abut or face a driveway, roadway or street of not less than 30 feet in width§ on a fifty-foot right-of-way§, which shall have unobstructed access to a public highway, street or alley.

(e) A mobile home court shall be surrounded by a landscaped strip of open space 50 feet in depth along the street frontage of a primary street§ and 25 feet in depth along all other lot lines or street frontage.§

Summary of Minimum Standards for Mobile Home Courts#

Requirement	Standard
Minimum lot area per mobile home unit	5,000 square feet
Minimum lot width	50 feet
Maximum average density	8 mobile home lots per acre
Minimum mobile home court area	5 acres
Minimum setback from adjacent lot boundary	10 feet
Minimum driveway/roadway/street width	30 feet
Minimum right-of-way width	50 feet
Landscaped strip along primary street frontage	50 feet in depth
Landscaped strip along all other lot lines/street frontage	25 feet in depth

ARTICLE XVII#

Cluster Zoning

ARTICLE XVIII#

Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements

ARTICLE XIX#

Supplementary Regulations: Heights, Lot Sizes, Yards, etc.

ARTICLE XX#

AA Aircraft Approach District

ARTICLE XXI#

Floodplain Regulations

ARTICLE XXIA#

Historic Preservation Ordinance

ARTICLE XXII#

Signs

ARTICLE XXIII#

Antennas

ARTICLE XXIV#

Site Plan

ARTICLE XXV#

Landscaping Requirements

ARTICLE XXVI#

Administration

ARTICLE XXVII#

Board of Zoning Appeals

ARTICLE XXVIII#

Changes and Amendments

ARTICLE XXIX#

Definitions