Town of Plainville, MA Mobile Home Parks

The street system shall conform to construction standards set forth in Chapter 540, Subdivision of Land, of Division 4, Planning Board Regulations, of the Code of the Town of Plainville for the construction and paving of streets in subdivisions in the Town and shall have direct connection to a public street or highway sufficient to satisfy the safety requirements of the Superintendent of Highways and the Fire Chief.

Access streets connecting park streets to public streets or highways shall have a layout of no less than 40 feet in width and shall be acceptable to the Superintendent of Highways as to grading, contour, and surface.

Park streets shall have layout of no less than 30 feet in width and have a turnaround with a radius of no less than 30 feet at any terminus. All park streets shall be lighted, named, and marked. All lots on each street shall be marked with a number. The maintenance of park and access streets shall be the responsibility of the mobile home park owner or operator.

Each mobile home lot within a mobile home park shall have a frontage of at least 50 feet on a park street.

No mobile home lot shall be located within 100 feet of any stream, pond, lake, or other waterway except where public sewage facilities are available and utilized, and the location will not present a potential flood hazard.

No license shall be granted for establishing or developing a mobile home park unless a connection is made to a municipal water supply system and all units within the park are connected to it. A private water system for use in a central laundry or other similar use may be permitted at the discretion of the Board.

Where a public sewage system is available at or within the boundary of the park site, connection shall be made to such system to serve all mobile homes and permanent buildings within the park.

Storage of mobile homes.

Mobile homes shall not be stored or displayed on park premises except when mounted on a pad on a lot. New mobile homes displayed for sale by the park owner or operator must be sold for use within the park in which they are displayed.

Used mobile homes offered for sale by individual mobile homeowners must be displayed on a pad on a lot within the park but may be sold either for use within the park to an individual or to the park owner or operator, or for use outside the park. The park owner or operator may also display used mobile homes on a pad on a lot for resale within the park premises.

Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as permitting the storage of unoccupied mobile homes in any park for sale in the ordinary course of business, or as inventory, or as permitting the actual sale of such homes in any park except in those districts, as determined by Chapter 500, Zoning, of the Code of the Town of Plainville, wherein such commercial activity is permissible with or without permits from the proper authority.

The developer shall provide for a buffer zone of at least 30 feet with appropriate vegetation between the mobile home park and any adjacent property and shall establish a similar thirty-foot buffer when such mobile home park shall be adjacent to any highway or road.

§ 653-5 Application for license.

Application for a license to establish a mobile home park or to alter, modify, or extend an existing mobile home park shall be made in writing to the Board. Upon receipt of such application the Board shall forward a copy thereof to the Planning Board for its recommendation. Within 30 days of its receipt of the application, the Board shall hold a public hearing on the application.

The Board shall, with the advice of the Planning Board, act on the application and notify the applicant of its decision within 60 days of such hearing. Each application shall include the following:

The name and address of the applicant and the nature of his interest in the property involved.

The name and precise location of the proposed mobile home park or of the existing park to which an alteration, modification, or extension is proposed.

A detailed plan of the proposed mobile home park or of the proposed alteration, modification, or extension of an existing park, prepared by a registered engineer or land surveyor to a scale of 80 feet to the inch showing:

(a)

All mobile home lots, park streets, water and sewer systems, and proposed sites for individual sewerage disposal facilities if their use is intended.

(b)

Required buffer zones, open space, playgrounds, and parking areas.

(c)

Watercourses and other bodies of water, natural or artificial.

(d)

Existing large trees or other natural features.

(e)

The contour of the land involved drawn of a scale of five-foot intervals to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Datum.

(f)

All abutting land, with names of owners.

(g)

A separate key sketch, at a scale of one inch equals 2,000 feet, showing the relation of the surrounding road networks. North point of the plan and the key sketch shall be in the same direction.

(h)

In the case of land bordering on or including permanent flowing or standing waters, or where the high ground elevation is within six feet of the existing or proposed ground surface level, the Board may require the plan to show existing and proposed contours on a scale of two-foot intervals.

(i)

In case of an application for a license for a proposed mobile home park, an itemized estimate of the cost of equipping the park with the buildings, structures, fixtures, and facilities necessary to conduct a mobile home park shall be included with the application.

(4)

A site report containing the following information:

(a)

Location of the nearest public water system, the size of the water main serving the area, the location of existing fire hydrants along any public roads adjacent to the development, and the location of proposed fire hydrants within the mobile home park.

(b)

The type of sewage disposal system to be provided or intended to be used in the mobile home park, such as an individual system on each lot, a community system or a municipal system. The report shall also specify the location of the nearest municipal sewage system and whether it is available and feasible for use. If a sewage disposal system other than a community of municipal system or individual lot septic tank and leaching field is proposed, the application shall include engineering evidence of satisfactory performance as may be required by the Board.

(c)

Statement of the existing use of adjacent properties and intended use of adjacent properties and intended use of adjacent undeveloped lands if known.

(d)

Certified report of a registered engineer indicating the highest known surface water elevations on the mobile home park site in the last 10 years and, if required by the Board, on adjacent properties.

(e)

Statement of proposed surface drainage system, including storm drainage flow direction of the mobile home park and adjacent properties and evidence that existing drainage systems, natural or man-made, are of sufficient size to contain the maximum runoff from the site without flooding or erosion.

(f)

Such additional information as the Board may request after initial review of the application.

§ 653-6 Approval or denial of application.

The Board may grant a license to an applicant subject to such conditions, consistent with these rules and regulations and applicable provisions of the Massachusetts General Laws, as it desires to impose. The Board shall notify the applicant, in writing, within 60 days of the public hearing conducted on the application, of its decision to grant or deny the license.

If its decision is to deny the license, the Board shall include in its decision the reasons for such denial. Any license granted shall expire on December 31 in the year of issue but may be renewed annually upon application without such notice and hearing.

§ 653-7 Revocation of license.

The Board may suspend or revoke any license granted for a mobile home park if the licensee violates or fails to comply with any conditions, limitations, or restrictions in the license, or violates or fails to comply with these rules and regulations or the applicable provisions of the Massachusetts General Laws.

§ 653-8 Construction standards.

Mobile home pad. The pad shall be constructed from concrete or asphalt concrete sufficient to adequately support the mobile home and prevent abnormal settling or heaving under the weight of the home. The mobile home shall be anchored to prevent wind overturn and rocking by using tie-downs such as concrete "dead men," screw augers, arrowhead anchors, or other suitable devices capable of withstanding a tension of at least 4,800 pounds. The mobile home shall be boxed in.

Water, sewer, and electrical lines.

A plan an profile showing water, sewer, and electrical lines shall be submitted to the Superintendent of Highways for approval. Utility lines shall not be laid in the same trench, and there shall be a minimum horizontal distance of 10 feet between them. Water/sewer crosses shall be kept to a minimum where crosses are necessary. Every effort shall be made to have the water lines pass above the sewer lines where adequate depths for cover are practical to obtain.

Acceptable sewer pipe materials are cement, asbestos, and rigid plastic such as PVC and ABS. The water and sewer riser pipes shall form watertight seals and, when not connected to a mobile home, shall be tightly and securely plugged.