This R-5 Mobile Home Park District is designed solely for mobile home parks and such accessory structures and uses normally associated thereto, in accordance with those regulations specified by the Mobile Home Commission Act, Act No. 96 of the Public Acts of Michigan of 1987 (MCLA § 125.2301 et seq.), as amended, and in accordance with the area requirements specified in this article.
Uses permitted in an R-5 Mobile Home Park District are mobile home parks and those uses customarily incidental to the principal use.
[Amended 12-14-1988 by Ord. No. 172]
Regulations which must be followed in the R-5 Mobile Home Park District are as follows:
A. 
R-5 Mobile Home Park Districts shall have frontage on a primary or major county street, or similarly adequate thoroughfare or a state trunkline.
B. 
R-5 Mobile Home Park Districts shall not be less than five acres in size.
C. 
The owner of every mobile home park which lies immediately adjacent to a residential district shall provide a screening area separating the park from the adjoining residential district. The screen shall be in the form of either a wall, fence, or evergreen planting which is compact and maintained in good condition at all times. The height of the screen shall not be less than five feet, except where the screen would interfere with traffic safety, in which case it may be reduced in height to, but not less than, three feet in height. Adequate landscaping shall also be provided by the owner of the mobile home park within the front yard setback area, between the mobile home sites and any public street, so as to provide an attractive frontage upon the street.
D. 
All interior drives within a mobile home park shall be paved with asphalt or a similar hard surface to a minimum width of 20 feet. Paved parking spaces for each mobile home site shall be provided in addition to the twenty-foot service drive, either by the provision of additional parking lanes or by parking spaces off the driveway.
E. 
Sidewalks, not less than 30 inches wide, constructed of asphalt or concrete, shall be provided extending between individual mobile home sites and the park service buildings.
F. 
Interior drives and walkways shall be lighted at intervals of not more than 100 feet by electric lamps of not less than 100 watts each.
G. 
Each mobile home site shall contain an area of not less than 2,000 square feet and have a width of not less than 30 feet.
H. 
Each mobile home site shall be well drained and be provided with a concrete slab base for the storage of each mobile home.
I. 
No mobile home within a park shall be within 35 feet of a residential district boundary.
J. 
Where individual fuel oil tanks are used above ground level, they shall be placed on permanent masonry foundations of uniform design.
K. 
Site and development plans of new mobile home parks or additions to existing parks shall be submitted to and approved by the Village Council or its authorized representatives, as such may be designated from time to time by the Village Council, and no mobile home park shall be licensed or licensable unless the plans are first approved by the Village Council or its authorized representative.
L. 
Every mobile home park established within the Village shall be inspected periodically by an official designated by the Village Council. The frequency of the inspections and any fees shall be determined by the Village Council.
Except as elsewhere specified, the lot, yard and area requirements in an R-5 Mobile Home Park District shall be as specified in § 475-118.