Surry, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 4-512

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin width 200 ftMin depth 200 ftMIN LOT AREA2 acMAX LOT COVERAGE25%MAX DENSITY6 du/ac
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Extracted standards

12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

From the ordinance

A new or expanding manufactured home park shall not be located in the floodplain. The park shall contain not less than two contiguous acres and shall be under single ownership or control, except that minimum area may be one acre where the proposed park is to be located adjacent to an existing mobile home park containing an area of one acre or more. The minimum width/depth for a mobile home park shall be 200 feet. A portion of a mobile home park consisting of not more than 25 percent of the area of the park may be designed for temporary parking of travel trailers, campers, or other recreational vehicles. The overall density of the mobile home park shall not exceed six units per gross acre and the net density of any particular acre within such park, whether used for mobile homes or travel trailers, shall not exceed 12 units per acres. Minimum site area for individual mobile homes shall be 3,600 square feet and no mobile home shall occupy more than 25 percent of the area of the lot on which it is situated. The minimum width for each lot shall be 2.5 times the width of the mobile home, or 25 feet, whichever is greater. Minimum lot widths shall be measured at right angles to the long axis of the lot at the setback line or rear of the parking stand whichever is less. No more than one mobile home shall be parked on anyone site and no mobile home sites shall be offered for sale or sold. Minimum site area for travel trailer or camper sites shall be 2,500 square feet. The mobile home park shall comply with all sanitary and other requirements prescribed by law or regulations. Each mobile home site shall be provided with individual water and sewer connections to central water and sewer connections to central water and sewer systems designed to serve the entire mobile home park. On-site sewage systems for individual sites or groups of sites may be permitted if approved by the health department. Each mobile home site shall be provided with electrical outlets installed in accordance with applicable codes and ordinances. No mobile home shall be parked closer than 100 feet from a public street or road, ten feet from an interior access drive, or 25 feet from any other mobile home or service building and no part of a mobile home, porches, decks, awnings, canopy or storage structure shall be located closer than five feet from the boundaries of the individual mobile home site. Access to the mobile home park shall not be from a minor residential street. Number and location of access drives shall be controlled for traffic safety and protection of surrounding properties, and no mobile home pace shall be designed for direct access to a street outside the boundaries of the park. Interior access drives shall be properly lighted and at least 50 feet in width, hard surfaced and maintained at least 20 feet in width in accord with applicable county specifications and ordinances. Turning radius at the end of a cul-de-sac shall be 35 feet. At least one off-street parking space shall be provided on each mobile home site, and in addition one off-street parking space shall be provided per mobile home in other locations convenient to groups of homes. No parking shall be permitted on the street. A special area shall be designated for accessory storage of boats and boat trailers, campers and other recreational vehicles. The topography of the site shall be such as to facilitate drainage and adequate drainage facilities shall be provided. The overall design shall evidence a reasonable effort to preserve the natural amenities of the site. The mobile home park shall be surrounded by a landscaped or wooded strip of open space at least 50 feet wide alone all street or road frontage and along all other exterior boundary lines. This space shall be in addition to space required for each mobile 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. Each mobile home park shall provide not less than one multiple purpose developed recreational areas of at least 10,000 square feet in area for the use of occupants of the park. Any part of the mobile home park not used for buildings or other structures, off-street parking, recreational uses, drives and pedestrian walks, central laundry drying yards, or garbage and trash collection stations or other uses shall be planted with appropriate ground cover, trees, flowers, shrub and grass lawns, all of which shall be properly maintained. Each mobile home site shall provide at least two shade trees and provide an appropriate outdoor living space to supplement limited interior space of a mobile home. The minimum size of each such space shall be 250 square feet. Every such space shall be convenient to the entrance of the mobile 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 mobile home models. The park owner shall require and the unit owner shall insure that open space beneath each mobile home shall be skirted with approval material in accordance with the requirements of the building inspector. Corners for each mobile home site shall be clearly defined by permanent ground markers corresponding to the approved site plan. All utilities shall be underground, except instrumentation and substations which must screened by planting or ornamental walls or fences. No overhead wires shall be permitted in the park. No existing mobile home park shall be enlarged or extended unless the entire park is brought into substantial compliance with all requirements for a new mobile home park.
Sec. 4-512