It is the intent of this article to provide
for manufactured home parks that have attractive, uncongested, well
laid out amenities and which provide high quality of life to their
residents. The Town of Lockport has historically and continues to
encourage the establishment of quality manufactured home parks within
the Town. The demand for manufactured homes (also referred to as "mobile
homes") can best be satisfied by the designation of manufactured home
parks specifically for the residential uses and amenities that would
normally be found in a residential neighborhood. Manufactured home
parks are a medium-density development typically located adjacent
to existing highways near supportive commercial or employment development,
and containing open space, recreation and other amenities, similar
to a cluster subdivision. It is the further intent of this article
to regulate "house trailer camps, tourist camps and house trailers"
pursuant to Town Law § 130, Subdivision 21.
No building, structure or lands within the Manufactured
Home Park (MHP) Use District shall be constructed, erected or used
for other than one of the following specified purposes:
A. Manufactured home park for manufactured homes.
B. Churches, parish houses, Sunday schools.
C. Community or public recreational centers.
D. Parks, playgrounds and/or common areas.
F. Manufactured home park office.
[Amended 5-5-2010 by L.L. No. 2-2010]
The following uses may be permitted upon obtaining
a special use permit:
A. Nursing homes and adult-care facilities.
B. Fire halls, rescue squad, and public safety buildings.
C. Public utilities, including poles, lines, distribution
transformers, pipes, meters and other facilities necessary for the
provision and maintenance of public utilities, including water, sewerage,
cable and satellite, communications and other utilities.
D. Off-street parking, parking structures.
E. Golf courses, private recreation centers.
Any of the following uses may be allowed as
accessory and clearly subordinate to the dwelling or principal structure:
A. Uses and structures customarily incidental to principal
uses.
B. Fences (maximum six feet in height; barbed wire prohibited).
Public areas of mobile home parks shall be adequately
lighted so as to permit safe movement of vehicles and pedestrians
at night.
Each mobile home park shall provide park and/or
playground space, specifically and exclusively for that purpose, at
a rate of 2,000 square feet per mobile home lot and a minimum of 20,000
square feet per park. Said park or playground shall at all times be
maintained in usable condition with all landscaping and green areas
kept trimmed and all equipment and amenities in clean, safe and attractive
condition by the park management; they shall not be Town facilities.
No structure shall be affixed to any mobile
home in a manufactured home park nor shall any accessory structure
be permitted on any manufactured home lot except those structures
as required by this chapter. The prohibition herein against any addition
or accessory to a manufactured home shall not apply to a canopy or
awning designed for use with a manufactured home, nor to any expansion
unit or accessory structure specifically manufactured for manufactured
homes.
It shall be the responsibility of the park management
to keep a register containing a record of all manufactured home owners
and occupants within the park.
A. The register shall consist of the following information:
(1) The name and address of the owner; the make, model,
dimensions, year and registration number of the mobile home; and last
place of location of each manufactured home.
(2) The state where each manufactured home is registered.
(3) The lot to which each manufactured home is assigned.
(4) The date of arrival and departure of each manufactured
home.
B. The mobile home park shall keep the register available
for inspection at all times by law enforcement officers, public health
officials, Town Building Inspectors and Assessors, and other officials
whose duties necessitate acquisition of the information contained
in the register.
C. A copy of said register shall be submitted to the
Town Assessor of the Town of Lockport each year, current as of the
taxable status date (March 1) on or before April.
No building permit shall be issued or construction
begun on any permitted use in this district until detailed site plans
indicating compliance with the substantive provisions of this chapter
shall be submitted to the Planning Board and approved in accordance
with this chapter, relating to site plan approval.
No manufactured home shall be placed in a manufactured
home park until a building permit has been obtained from the Building
Inspector.