In addition to the design standards of Article
V, the following regulations shall apply to all mobile home park developments:
A. Street standards. In those mobile home parks wherein
the internal streets are to be maintained by the mobile home park
operator, the following standards shall be adhered to:
(1) Right-of-way. There shall be an ultimate right-of-way
reserved along all streets.
(2) Culs-de-sac. No permanently closed cul-de-sac street
shall serve as the sole access to more than 20 mobile home lots or
have a length greater than 500 feet.
B. Access limitations. Mobile home lots may have direct
access only onto local streets and courts.
C. Individual walks. All mobile home dwellings shall
be connected to common walks or to streets or to driveways or parking
spaces connecting to a street. Such individual walks shall have a
minimum width of two feet.
D. Parking spaces. Parking spaces shall be within 150
feet of the mobile home lots for which they are intended.
E. Recreation. Recreation areas and facilities shall
be provided to meet the anticipated needs of the mobile home park.
Not less than 25% of the required open space area, exclusive of lands
within the required buffers, shall be devoted to recreation. Recreation
areas should be of a size, shape and relief that is conducive to active
or passive recreation.
F. Buffers.
(1) Mobile home park developments shall provide buffering as required by §
105-52. For the purposes of this section, mobile home parks shall be considered as a multifamily land use.
(2) Buffers may be waived or standards may be modified
by the Board of Supervisors where the mobile home park abuts a single-family
residential use, if detached modular homes or conventionally-built
single-family detached dwellings are constructed within 200 feet of
the tract boundary.
G. Common buildings. The structure or structures containing
the management office and other common facilities shall be conveniently
located for the use intended. Consolidation of laundry, recreation,
management and other common facilities in a single building and location
is encouraged, if the single location will adequately serve all mobile
home lots.
In mobile home park developments, the following
regulations shall apply to the entire development exclusive of the
lots being leased individually:
A. Initial permits. It shall be unlawful for any person
or group to construct, alter, extend or operate a mobile home park
unless and until that person or group obtains:
(1) A valid permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Resources, in the name of the operator, for a specified
construction, alteration or extension proposed; and
(2) Valid permit(s) authorizing construction and initial
occupancy issued by the Whitemarsh Township Zoning Officer in the
name of the operator, which shall not be issued until a copy of the
Department of Environmental Resources permit has been furnished; all
permits for water supply and sewage systems have been obtained; and
all other requirements contained herein have been complied with; and
final approval of the land development application has been granted
by the Board of Supervisors.
B. Annual licenses. In addition to the initial permits,
the operator of a mobile home park shall apply to the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Resources and to the Whitemarsh Township
Zoning Officer on or before January 31 of each year for an annual
license to continue operation of the mobile home park. The Zoning
Officer shall issue the annual license upon satisfactory proof that
the park continues to meet the standards prescribed by state agencies
having jurisdiction and the standards of this article and other applicable
Township ordinances. The license so issued shall be valid for one
year from the date of issuance.
The fee for the initial permits and the annual
licenses required for mobile home park developments shall be prescribed
by resolution of the Board of Supervisors.