Unless a contrary intention clearly appears,
the following words and phrases shall have, for the purpose of this
article, the meanings given in the following clauses:
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR STRUCTURE
A subordinate building or structure which is an addition
to or supplements the facilities provided by a mobile home, such as
awnings, cabanas, ramadas, storage structures, carports, porches,
fences, skirting or windbreaks.
AWNING
A shade structure supported by posts or columns and partially
supported by a mobile home installed, erected or used on a mobile
home lot.
AWNING, FREESTANDING
A shade structure supported entirely by columns or posts
and not attached to or supported by a mobile home or structure.
AWNING WINDOW
A shade structure supported wholly by the mobile home or
building to which it is attached.
CARPORT
An awning or shade structure for a vehicle or vehicles, which
may be freestanding or partially supported by a mobile home.
COMMON OPEN SPACE
A parcel or parcels of land or an area of water or a combination
of land and water within a development site, designed and intended
for the use or enjoyment of residents of the planned residential development,
not including streets, off-street parking areas and areas set aside
for public facilities. Common open space shall be substantially free
of structures but may contain such improvements as are appropriate
for the recreation of residents and as are set forth in the development
plan as finally approved by the Board. The common open space shall
be exclusive of any land designated by the state, county or any other
governmental agency for future acquisition for highway use.
[Amended 5-9-1983 by Ord. No. 83-7]
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
The person who owns or has charge, care or control of the
mobile home development.
CONVENIENCE CENTER
Includes only an office for conducting the business of the
mobile park owner related solely to the rental of lots for mobile
homes, the rental or sale of those mobile homes and a self-service
laundry.
DRIVEWAY
A minor private way used by vehicles and pedestrians on a
mobile home lot or common access to a small group of lots or common
facilities.
EASEMENT
A vested or acquired right to use land, other than as a tenant,
for a specific purpose, such right being held by someone other than
the owner who holds title to the land.
FEEDER ASSEMBLY
The overhead or underchassis feeder conductors, including
the grounding conductor, together with the necessary fittings and
equipment, or a power supply cord listed for mobile home use, designed
for the purpose of delivering energy from the source of electrical
supply to the distribution panelboard within the mobile home.
FENCE
A vertical structure or enclosure designed as a barrier and
erected as a freestanding unit.
GROUND ANCHOR
Any device at the mobile home stand designed for the purpose
of securing a mobile home to the ground.
LOT AREA
The total area reserved for exclusive use of the occupants
of a mobile home and fronting along a public or private street right-of-way.
[Amended 5-9-1983 by Ord. No. 83-7]
LOT LINE
A line bounding the lot as shown on the accepted plot plan.
MOBILE HOME
A single-family detached dwelling transportable on its own
wheels intended for permanent occupancy, contained in one unit, or
in two or more units designed to be joined into one integral unit
capable of again being separated for repeated towing, which arrives
at a site complete and ready for occupancy, except for minor and incidental
unpacking and assembly operations, and constructed so that it may
be used without a permanent foundation.
MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY
A mobile home development and related facilities, including
the mobile homes and all residents within the development.
MOBILE HOME LOT
A parcel of land in a mobile home park provided with the
necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for
the erection thereon of a single mobile home, which is leased by the
park owner to the occupants of the mobile home erected on the lot
and which fronts along a private or public street right-of-way.
[Amended 5-9-1983 by Ord. No. 83-7]
MOBILE HOME PARK
A tract or parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land under single
ownership which has been so designated and improved that it contains
two or more mobile home lots available to the greater public for rent
and the placement thereon of mobile homes for nontransient occupancy.
MOBILE HOME PARK ELECTRICAL WIRING SYSTEM
All of the electrical wiring, fixtures, equipment and appurtenances
related to electrical installations within a mobile home park or subdivision,
including the mobile home service equipment.
MOBILE HOME STAND
The outline of the actual mobile home, including the paved
portion of any outdoor living area. Proposed or anticipated structural
additions to a mobile home, such as carports, cabanas or attached
storage areas, shall be considered part of the mobile home stand.
PIER
A concrete pillar 12 to 16 inches in circumference usually
placed three feet deep in the ground and used for support of mobile
homes.
PORCH
An outside walking area having the floor elevated more than
eight inches above grade.
PRIVATE STREET
A private way which affords principal means or access to
abutting individual mobile home lots and convenience center. Community
management shall be responsible for the maintenance of all private
streets.
SKIRTS
Panels specifically designed for the purpose of screening
the underside of a mobile home by forming an extension of the vertical
exterior walls for the mobile home and covering the entire distance
between the bottom of the exterior walls and the ground elevation
below.
STORAGE STRUCTURE
A structure located on a mobile home lot which is designed
and used solely for the storage and use of personal equipment and
possessions of the mobile home occupants.
TIEDOWNS
Any device designed for the purpose of anchoring a mobile
home to ground anchors.
WINDBREAK
A vertical wall structure designed and erected as a freestanding
unit, the vertical surface of which is not more than 50% open.
All mobile home parks, where permitted, shall
conform to the following standards as well as to other applicable
standards in this Subdivision Ordinance.
A. Ownership and control. All mobile home parks shall
be planned as a unit, and each mobile home park shall be in single
ownership and control.
B. General layout.
(1) All mobile parks shall be laid out with due consideration
to slopes and other natural features. Natural drainageways will in
no way be impaired by development. Streets should run, where possible,
with the contours of the land. Efforts should be made to lay out the
mobile home park in other than grid patterns so that long sight distances
may be avoided.
(2) The objectives of a mobile home park shall be as follows:
(a)
To develop the site in a manner which preserves
the natural inherent livability features of the site.
(b)
To achieve a careful blending between the exterior
design of the mobile home unit and the landscape design of the site.
(c)
To avoid the conventional practice of straight-grid-patterned
streets with units placed at monotonous slant angles.
(d)
To permit flexibility in lot layout, lot size
and design.
(3) Public water and sewers must be provided.
[Added 5-9-1983 by Ord. No. 83-7]
Site layout shall be as follows:
A. Mobile homes placed on individual lots are encouraged
to be placed off-center on the lots, so as to provide a large usable
open yard space and outdoor living area in one section of the lot.
B. Groups or clusters of units, so placed as to create
interior spaces and courtyards, shall be incorporated whenever feasible.
C. Mobile homes are encouraged to be arranged in a variety
of orientations and are strongly encouraged to have many units with
their long axes east-west, offering south exposure to their longest
wall and roof areas, and to provide variety and interest. Site layout
shall be designed to ensure that mobile home units are offset to block
long uninterrupted vistas between the units.
D. When topographic conditions make street orientation
for good solar orientation of units difficult or undesirable, lots
should be laid out so that units can be oriented to the south to the
greatest extent possible.
All other articles, sections and subsections or other provisions of the Subdivision Ordinance, except as specifically amended by or otherwise inconsistent with this article, shall remain in full force and shall remain valid and be applicable to mobile home parks and this Article
IX, except as may be further modified, amended or rescinded by the Board of Commissioners of Marple Township.