The R-4 Zone District is designed for mobile home parks limited to housing for the elderly, as defined in §
160-5, in addition to those uses permitted in §
160-128.
Any use other than those uses listed in Subsection A above is
prohibited. Specifically prohibited are the following:
The following requirements shall be complied with in the R-4
Zone:
A. Single-family detached residences. Any single-family detached residence unit shall meet all of the required conditions of §
160-130.
B. Mobile home parks. Mobile home parks shall meet all of the following
requirements:
(1)
Density. The maximum density for any mobile home park development
shall not exceed six dwelling units per acre; provided, however, that
a minimum tract area of 50 acres shall be provided.
(2)
Setbacks. The provisions of §
160-130 must be complied with for single-family detached residential units. All mobile homes shall be located at least 50 feet from any property line.
(3)
Lot frontage. The minimum lot frontage measured along the front
street right-of-way line shall be at least 500 feet.
(4)
Building coverage. The building coverage, as defined in §
160-5 of this chapter, shall not exceed 15%.
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(5)
Building height. No building shall exceed a height of 35 feet
or 2 1/2 stories, whichever is the lesser.
(6)
Mobile homes shall be separated from each other and from other
buildings and structures by at least 25 feet, provided that mobile
homes placed end-to-end may have a clearance of 20 feet where opposing
rear walls are staggered.
(7)
In all parks accommodating or designed to accommodate 25 or
more mobile homes, there shall be one or more recreation areas which
shall be easily accessible to all homes and which, in the aggregate,
shall total not less than 10% of the area of the tract.
(a)
The size of such recreation areas shall be based upon a minimum
of 400 square feet for each mobile home. No outdoor recreation area
shall contain less than 5,000 square feet.
(b)
Recreation areas shall be located so as to be free of traffic
hazards and should, where the topography permits, be centrally located.
(8)
There shall be a minimum distance of 30 feet between an individual
mobile home and adjoining pavement of a mobile home park street, common
parking area or other common areas.
(9)
All mobile home park owners shall provide and maintain a screening
strip such as fences and natural growth along all property boundary
lines. Such screening shall consist of dense hedges and trees. The
hedges shall be at least 50% evergreen shrubbery. All landscaping
shall be planted five feet on center in each of two staggered rows
not more than five feet from each other and neither of which shall
be closer than five feet to the property line being screened. Plants
shall be a minimum height of three feet at planting and shall attain
and be maintained at a height of not less than five feet. A planting
plan specifying type, size and location of existing and proposed plant
material shall be required.
(10)
One shade tree shall be planted and maintained for each mobile
home within any mobile park.
(11)
All mobile home parks shall be provided with safe and convenient
vehicular access from abutting public streets or roads to each mobile
home lot. Alignment and gradient shall be properly adapted to topography
as approved by the Township Engineer.
(a)
Access to mobile home parks shall be designed to minimize congestion
and hazards at the entrance and exit and allow free movement of traffic
of adjacent streets.
(b)
Any street shall be built to the street and storm drainage specifications of Article
XI of this chapter.
(c)
Within 100 feet of an intersection, streets shall be at approximately
right angles. Not more than two streets shall intersect one point,
and a distance of at least 150 feet shall be maintained between center
lines of offset intersection streets.
(12)
All mobile home parks shall be provided with safe, convenient,
all-season pedestrian walks, of ID-2 bituminous concrete or portland
cement concrete of a depth and width approved by the Township Engineer,
between individual mobile homes, streets and all community facilities
provided for residents. Sudden changes in alignment and gradient shall
be avoided. If the walks are to be constructed in a right-of-way to
be dedicated to the Township, portland concrete shall be required.
Each mobile home shall be provided with a paved patio of a minimum
size of 10 feet by 40 feet, the same to be adjacent and parallel to
the unit. This patio shall not be used for parking.
(a)
A common walk system shall be provided and maintained between
locations where pedestrian traffic is concentrated. Such common walks
shall have a minimum width of 3 1/2 feet.
(b)
All mobile home lots shall be connected to common walks, to
paved streets or to paved driveways or parking spaces connecting to
a paved street. Such individual walks shall have a minimum width of
2 1/2 feet.
(13)
Mobile home lots shall have a minimum width of 40 feet and a
minimum area of 4,000 square feet.
(14)
One illuminated identification ground sign may be erected at
one entrance driveway. Such signs shall not exceed 20 square feet
in area on either side or a height of 20 feet above ground level.
Additional nonilluminated ground signs may be erected not closer than
50 feet to any property line, not to exceed four square feet in area
on either side or two feet in height above ground level, for the purpose
of directing traffic to offices or sections or providing general traffic
direction.
(15)
All outside utilities shall be suitably enclosed from view.
(16)
Final approval for any mobile home park shall be granted conditionally,
pending review and approval from the New Jersey State Department of
Health and Senior Services in accordance with the New Jersey State
Sanitary Code, Chapter IX, Mobile Home Parks, and the White Township
Board of Health.