This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the "Manufactured
Home Park Ordinance of Carroll County, Virginia." It is enacted under
the authority granted by Act of the General Assembly of Virginia as
provided in Title 15.2, § 15.2-2247, Code of Virginia 1950,
and amendments thereto.
This chapter establishes regulations to assure the orderly development
of manufactured home parks and the placement of individual manufactured
homes in Carroll County, Virginia, to protect the general public and
to provide for the administration and enforcement thereof.
In the construction of this chapter, the rules contained in
this section shall be observed and applied, except when the context
clearly indicates otherwise:
A. Words used in the present tense shall include the future, and words
used in the singular number shall include the plural number, and the
plural the singular;
B. The word "lot" includes the words "plot" and "parcel";
C. The word "shall" is mandatory and not discretionary;
D. The word "may" is permissive;
E. The word "approve" shall be considered to be followed by the words
"or disapprove";
F. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter;
G. Any reference to this chapter includes all ordinances amending or
supplementing the same;
H. All distances and areas refer to measurement in a horizontal plane.
For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and terms are
defined as follows. Words used in the present tense include the future.
Words in the singular include the plural, and the plural includes
the singular.
ADMINISTRATOR
The Carroll County Planning Commission having been appointed
to serve as the agent of the Board in administering all provisions
of this chapter.
AGENT
A representative of the administrator and the Board of Supervisors
designated to serve as the agent of the administrator and the Board
in approving and disapproving manufactured home park plats and charged
with enforcement of this chapter. The agent may approve manufactured
home parks containing four or less lots and have other such duties
as delegated by the administrator and/or the Board of Supervisors.
ALLEYS
A public or private right-of-way primarily designed to serve
as secondary access to the side or rear of those properties whose
principal frontage and access is on a street.
BUILDING
Any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure
of persons, animals, chattel or movable property of any kind and which
is permanently affixed to the land and any structure which, pursuant
to the Virginia Uniform Building Code, requires a building permit
in order to be placed or erected.
COMMISSION
The Planning Commission of Carroll County, Virginia
COUNTY
Carroll County, Virginia.
CUL-DE-SAC
A street with only one outlet and having an appropriate turnaround
for safe and convenient traffic movement. Such streets shall not be
longer than 500 feet, exclusive of the turnaround. The turnaround
shall have a minimum right-of-way diameter of 100 feet.
DEVELOP
The act of planning, constructing, and maintaining a manufactured
home park.
DEVELOPER
A.
An owner of property where a proposed manufactured home park
is to be located, whether or not represented by an agent.
B.
An individual, corporation or registered partnership owning
any tract, lot or parcel of land to be developed or a group of two
or more persons owning any tract, lot or parcel to be developed under
this chapter who have given their power of attorney to one of their
group or to another individual to act on their behalf in planning,
negotiating for, representing or executing the legal requirements
of the manufactured home park.
EASEMENT
A grant by the property owner of the use of land for a specific
purpose or purposes.
ENGINEER
An engineer licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
EROSION AND SEDIMENT
A control program or state program administered by the Virginia
Soil and Water Conservation Board pursuant to the Code of Virginia,
§ 10.1-560, including regulations designed to minimize erosion and
sedimentation.
FAMILY, IMMEDIATE MEMBER
Any person who is a natural or legally defined offspring,
spouse, sibling, grandchild, grandparent or parent of the owner.
FINAL PLAT
A map or plan of a manufactured home park which meets all
requirements of this chapter, including any accompanying material.
FRONTAGE
The length of the property line of any lot, lots or tracts
of land measured at the front setback line along a street, road or
highway against which land abuts.
HEALTH OFFICER
The Director of the Carroll County Health Department or his
designated representative.
HEALTH PERMIT
A written permit issued by the Health Officer authorizing
the operation of manufactured home lot or manufactured home park.
HIGHWAY ENGINEER
The engineer employed by the Highway Department serving Carroll
County.
IMPROVEMENTS
All public utilities and facilities, including but not limited
to streets, storm and sanitary sewer systems, curbs and cutters, culverts,
catch basins and other drainage structures, waterlines and fire hydrants,
sidewalks and street signs.
JURISDICTION
The area or territory subject to the legislative control
of the Board of Supervisors.
LICENSE
A receipt issued by the Carroll County Treasurer to the owner
of each manufactured home in the County. This receipt is to be suitable
for display on each manufactured home.
MANUFACTURED HOME
An industrialized building unit constructed on a chassis
for towing to the point of use and designed to be used without a permanent
foundation for continuous year-round occupancy as a dwelling; or two
or more such units separately towable, but designed to be joined together
at the point of use to form a single dwelling, and which are designed
for removal to and installation or erection on other sites.
MANUFACTURED HOME LOT
A unit of land designed, constructed, and equipped for the
placement of a single manufactured home and for the exclusive use
of its occupants.
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK
An area or tract of land designed, constructed, and equipped
to accommodate two or more manufactured homes.
MANUFACTURED HOME STAND
A manufactured home stand is that portion of the manufactured
home lot designated for the placement of a manufactured home.
MOTOR HOME
A portable, temporary dwelling to be used for travel, recreation,
and vacation and constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled
vehicle.
NSAP
Network service access point.
OWNER
Any person, group of persons, firm, corporation or any other
legal entity having legal title to the land sought to be developed
under this chapter.
PLAT
Includes the terms "map," "plan," "plot," "replat" or "replot";
a map or plan of a tract or parcel of land which is to be or which
has been developed as a manufactured home park. When used as a verb,
"plat" is synonymous with "develop."
PROPERTY
Any place, tract, lot, parcel of land or several of the same
collected together for the purpose of developing a manufactured home
park.
PSA
Carroll County Public Service Authority.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
A piece or strip of land set aside for use as a street, crosswalk,
railroad, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main,
sanitary or storm sewer main or for another public use.
ROADWAY
That portion of a street used by vehicular traffic.
SETBACK
That distance from a street right-of-way or boundary of adjacent
property or adjacent manufactured home lot upon which a building or
other structure may be built.
STREET
A public right-of-way which offers a means of vehicular access
to properties or provides for through traffic, whether designated
as a highway, parkway, turnpike, street, avenue, road, boulevard,
throughway, lane, place, alley or any other thoroughfare. A street
shall be deemed the total length and width of the strip of land dedicated
for public travel, including such improvements as may be required.
TRAVEL TRAILER
A transportable temporary dwelling with a maximum body length
of 36 feet to be used for recreation and vacation.