Section 7, RMH Residential Mobile Homes District
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right3
Conditional / special use2
Accessory11
- awning or porch
- storage building
- management headquarters
- recreational facilities
- community building
- toilets
- showers
- coin-operated laundry facilities
- vending machines
- sales area for mobile/manufactured homes (max 10% of park area, max 2 acres)
- convenience establishment (grocery store, restaurant, beauty shop, barber shop, laundry and dry cleaning) in park of 20+ units
Extracted standards
20 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of lighting fixture for night sales10 ft
No lighting fixture for night sales shall exceed ten (10) feet in height and all lighting shall be directed or shielded so as not to produce glare outside the sales area.
Other
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. strip along other lot lines10 ft
and at least ten (10) feet wide along all other lot lines.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. strip along streets25 ft
The mobile or manufactured home park shall be surrounded by a strip of open space, landscaping, or woods at least twenty-five (25) feet wide along all streets
- Maximum area for convenience establishments15 pct
Such establishment and parking areas primarily related to their operations shall not occupy more than fifteen (15) percent of the area of the park.
- Maximum sales area in acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.2 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
and not exceeding two (2) acres, whichever is smaller
- Maximum sales area as percentage of park area10 pct
An area not exceeding ten (10) percent of the area of a mobile or manufactured home park and not exceeding two (2) acres, whichever is smaller, for the sales of mobile or manufactured homes
- Minimum number of home sites in park10 count
That at least ten (10) home sites be provided in the proposed plan.
- Minimum mobile homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. park area1.5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The minimum total area of the park shall be one and one-half (1½) acres, including one-half the width of bordering streets except that minimum area may be one (1) acre where proposed park is to be located adjacent to an existing mobile home park containing an area of one-half acres or more.
- Minimum depth of mobile homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. park200 ft
The minimum width and/or depth of the mobile or manufactured home park shall be two hundred (200) feet
- Minimum width of mobile homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. park200 ft
The minimum width and/or depth of the mobile or manufactured home park shall be two hundred (200) feet
- Minimum recreational area per mobile homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. site400 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
at a ratio of a minimum of four hundred (400) square feet of recreational area per mobile or manufactured home site in such park.
- Minimum recreational area per park4,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
an open space or spaces of not less than four thousand (4,000) square feet accessible to all mobile or manufactured home occupants
- Minimum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of visual screen for sales area8 ft
Such area is separated from the remainder of the mobile or manufactured home park by a continuous visual screen with a minimum height of eight (8) feet
- Individual water and sewer connections required
Each mobile or manufactured home site shall be provided with individual water and sewer connections to central sewer and water systems.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from interior access drive10 ft
ten (10) feet from an interior access drive
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from other mobile homesManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. or service buildings25 ft
or twenty-five (25) feet from any other mobile or manufactured home or service building
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from public street50 ft
no mobile or manufactured home shall be parked closer than fifty (50) feet from a public street or road
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from site boundaries5 ft
and no part of a mobile or manufactured home shall extend closer than five (5) feet to the boundaries of the individual mobile or manufactured home site.
- Underpinning required within 6 months
All mobile or manufactured homes are to be underpinned six (6) months after occupancy.
Parking
- Off-street parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. requirement1 spaces
At least one (1) off-street parking space shall be provided on each mobile or manufactured home site, and in addition off-street parking spaces for automobiles shall be provided in the ratio of one-half space per mobile or manufactured home in locations convenient to groups of homes.
From the ordinance
The purpose of this district is to provide for well-designed mobile or manufactured home parks...
Parking requirements
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"mobile_home_site": "1 space per site plus 0.5 space per unit in common areas"
}