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 right4
Conditional / special use2
Accessory6
- any accessory use permitted in R-3
- awnings or porches for individual mobile home sites
- one storage building per mobile home site
- management headquarters, recreational facilities, community building, toilets, showers, coin-operated laundry facilities and vending machines for park
- sales area for mobile homes (max 10% of park area or 2 acres)
- convenience establishment in park of 20+ units (max 15% of park area)
Extracted standards
19 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Buffer width along other lot lines10 ft
at least ten (10) feet wide along all other lot lines
- Buffer width along streets25 ft
surrounded by a strip of open space, landscaping, or woods at least twenty-five (25) feet wide along all streets
- Electrical outlets required
Each mobile or manufactured home site shall be provided with electrical outlets installed in accordance with applicable town codes.
- Individual water and sewer connections
Each mobile or manufactured home site shall be provided with individual water and sewer connections to central sewer and water systems.
- Maximum convenience establishment area15 pct
shall not occupy more than fifteen (15) percent of the area of the park
- Maximum sales area percentage10 pct
An area not exceeding ten (10) percent of the area of a mobile or manufactured home park and not exceeding two (2) acres
- Minimum interior access drive width30 ft
interior access drives shall be properly lighted and at least thirty (30) feet in width and hard surfaced
- Minimum mobile homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. park area65,340 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
minimum total area of the park shall be one and one-half (1½) acres
- Minimum park width and depth200 ft
minimum width and/or depth of the mobile or manufactured home park shall be two hundred (200) feet
- Recreation area per site400 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
a ratio of a minimum of four hundred (400) square feet of recreational area per mobile or manufactured home site
- Minimum recreation area4,000 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
- Sales area lighting heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.10 ft
No lighting fixture for night sales shall exceed ten (10) feet in height
- Sales area parking spaces10 spaces
there shall be adequate off-street parking (ten (10) spaces minimum)
- Sales area screen heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.8 ft
separated from the remainder of the mobile or manufactured home park by a continuous visual screen with a minimum height of eight (8) feet
- 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
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 boundary5 ft
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
All mobile or manufactured homes are to be underpinned six (6) months after occupancy.
From the ordinance
The purpose of this district is to provide for well-designed mobile or manufactured home parks or subdivisions... Permitted uses include mobile or manufactured home parks, subdivisions, and single-family residential development.
Parking requirements
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"mobile_home_site": "1 space per site plus 0.5 space per unit in common areas"
}