In a Mobile Home Park District, the following
regulations shall apply
A building may be erected and used and a lot
may be used or occupied for any purpose permitted in an R 1-1/2
District.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following
words and phrases shall be construed throughout this article to have
the meanings herein indicated. The singular shall include the plural
and the plural shall include the singular. The past tense shall include
the future tense. The word "shall" is always mandatory.
COMMON OPEN SPACE
A parcel or parcels of land or an area of water or a combination
of land and water within a mobile home park site designed and intended
for the use or enjoyment of residents of the mobile home park, not
including streets, off-street parking areas, areas set aside for public
facilities, and required setbacks and buffers.
LANDOWNER
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land, including
the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such
option or contract is subject to any condition), a lessee if he is
authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner
or other person having a proprietary interest in the land.
MOBILE HOME
A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent
occupancy contained in one unit, or in two 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 and including
any addition or accessory structure, such as porches, sheds, decks
or additional rooms.
MOBILE HOME LOT or SITE
A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the
necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for
the erection thereof of a single mobile home, which is leased by the
park owner to the owner or occupants of the mobile home erected on
the lot.
MOBILE HOME PAD
A concrete pad at least six inches in thickness with at least
six tie-down rings, to which the mobile home shall be secured, and
at least equal in length and width to the dimensions of the mobile
home to be placed thereon.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned
and improved for the placement of mobile homes for nontransient use,
consisting of two or more mobile home lots.
An application for development of a lot or parcel
of land for mobile home park purposes shall be made and approved or
approved as modified before any zoning permit for such use shall be
issued.
A. Chapter
162, Subdivision and Land Development, of the Code of the Village of Chester Heights shall govern the processing of all applications for mobile home park development and is accordingly incorporated herein in its entirety.
B. In addition to the requirements of Chapter
162, Subdivision and Land Development, of the Code of the Village of Chester Heights, an application for preliminary or final approval of a mobile home park shall indicate by drawings, diagrams, maps, text, affidavit or other legal instrument, the following:
(1) That the parcel or lot for which application is made
is held in single and separate ownership.
(2) The placement, location and number of mobile home
lots and mobile home pads on a layout map of the parcel at a scale
of one inch equals 40 feet.
(3) The location and dimension of all driveways, pedestrian
ways, sidewalks, and access roads with notation as to type of impervious
cover.
(4) The location and dimension of all parking facilities.
(5) The locale, dimension and arrangement of all areas
to be devoted to lawns, buffer strips, screen planting and recreation.
(6) Location and dimension of all buildings existing or
proposed to be built and all existing tree masses and trees of over
six inch caliper.
(7) Proposed provisions for handling of stormwater drainage,
street- and on-site lighting, water supply and electrical supply in
the form of written and diagrammatic analysis with calculations and
conclusions prepared by a registered professional engineer.
(8) Proposed provisions for treatment of sanitary sewage
together with proof that the treatment and disposal of such sewage
meets with and has the approval of the agency of the commonwealth
having jurisdiction over such matters.
All utilities shall be installed and maintained
in accordance with utility company specifications regulating such
systems and shall be underground.
The operator and owner shall be responsible
for maintaining all common facilities, including but not limited to
roads, parking areas, sidewalks or pathways, landscaping, common open
space, water supply and sewage disposal systems and service buildings,
in a condition of proper repair and maintenance. If upon inspection
by a Zoning Officer or other representative it is determined that
the mobile home park is not in compliance with this standard of maintenance,
the licensee shall be considered to be in violation of this article
and the Zoning Officer shall notify the operator or licensee of the
particulars of any such violation.
The operator and licensee shall thereafter have
30 days in which to correct any such violations, except that if the
violation is determined by the Zoning Officer or other representative
to constitute a hazard to the health or safety of the residents of
the mobile home park, he shall order that the violation be corrected
forthwith.
Any person who violates any provision of this
article shall be guilty of a summary offense and upon conviction shall
be required to pay a penalty, for the use of Chester Heights Borough,
in a sum not more than $300, together with the costs of prosecution,
or shall be imprisoned in the Delaware County Prison for a term not
to exceed 30 days, or both. Each day that a violation continues shall
constitute a separate offense.
Upon repeated violations by the same permittee,
his right to the issuance of a permit, or to continued operation under
a permit, may be suspended for a fixed term or permanently revoked,
after notice and hearing, subject to the right of appeal to the Delaware
County Common Pleas Court.