In addition to the statement of purposes set forth in Article
I, §
215-4 of this chapter, it is hereby declared to be the specific intent of this article with respect to the MHP Mobile Home Park District to establish standards of performance and promote the desirable benefits which planned mobile home parks may have upon the community and the residents within them. It is further the intent of this article to ensure the interdependency and compatibility of proposed mobile home parks with essential utilities and surrounding land uses in the Township. It shall further be the intent of this district:
A. To reflect the changes in the technology of home building and land
development so that resulting economies may accrue to the benefits
of those who need homes;
B. To further the general welfare by extending greater opportunities
for better and more affordable housing to present and prospective
residents of Marlborough Township;
C. To provide for better quality and greater variety in type, design,
and layout of mobile home parks than has been evident in many mobile
home parks in the past by enforcing uniform standards, desirable design
criteria, and encouraging innovative site design approaches;
D. To provide for a diversity in housing types and prices; and
E. To encourage mobile home parks that are beneficial rather than detrimental
to property values and the general welfare of the area in which they
are proposed.
The uses allowed within a mobile home development shall be as specified in Article
XIII, MHD Mobile Home Development District, of Chapter
275, Zoning, of the Code of the Township of Marlborough.
The following regulations shall apply to mobile home parks or
developments:
A. Arrangement of structure and facilities. The tract, including mobile
home stands, patios, other dwellings and structures, and all tract
improvements, shall be organized in relation to topography, the shape
of the plot, and common facilities. Special attention shall be given
to new mobile home designs and to common appurtenances that are available.
B. Adaptation to tract assets. Each mobile home unit or other dwelling
or structure shall be fitted to the terrain with a minimum disturbance
of the land and a minimum elevation difference between the floor level
of the unit and the ground elevation under it. Existing trees and
shrubs, rock formation, streams, floodplains, steep slopes, and other
natural features of the tract shall be preserved to the maximum extent
practical. Favorable views shall be emphasized by the plan.
C. Courts and spaces. Groups or clusters of units, so placed as to create
interior spaces and courtyards, shall be incorporated whenever feasible.
D. Orientation. Mobile homes are encouraged to be arranged in a variety
of orientations, and are strongly encouraged to have many units with
their long sides facing the street rather than their ends, in order
to provide variety and interest. Site layout shall be designed to
insure that mobile home units are offset to block long, uninterrupted
vistas between the units.
E. Street layout. Street patterns unrelated to the topography of the
site are to be avoided.
F. Roadways.
(1) Standards. All Township standards for the construction of streets
contained in this chapter shall be adhered to for all public streets
in and abutting mobile home developments.
(2) Access limitations. Mobile home lots may have direct access only
onto streets internal to the development. Direct access from a mobile
home lot shall not be permitted onto the streets from which the mobile
home, park or development gains primary access.
(3) Conversions. Any road built as a private road, and later proposed
for conversion to a public road, shall be brought up to the applicable
standards for public streets prior to being ordained as a public way,
unless this requirement is waived by the governing body subsequent
to determining that compliance with the requirement would have a negative
effect on the mobile home development.
G. Pedestrian circulation.
(1) General requirements. All mobile home developments shall provide
safe, convenient, all-season pedestrian walkways of adequate width
for intended use, durable and convenient to maintain between individual
mobile homes, mobile home development, streets all community facilities
provided for the residents, and off-site pedestrian traffic generators,
such as schools, bus stops, commercial centers, etc. These pedestrian
walkways may parallel vehicular roadways, where they shall only be
required on one side, or they may form a separate but coordinated
system away from streets. Walkways must be provided wherever pedestrian
traffic is concentrated and where school children congregate, but
may be waived elsewhere if the applicant successfully demonstrates
a lack of need.
(2) Common walk system. Where a common walk system is provided and maintained
between locations, such common walks shall have a minimum width of
four feet. Where these walks parallel roadways, they shall be separated
from the road pavement by a distance of at least four feet.
(3) Individual walks. All dwellings shall be connected to common walks,
or to streets, or to driveways or parking spaces connecting to a paved
street. Such individual walks shall have a minimum width of two feet.
H. Parking.
(1) Spaces required. Two paved off-street parking space shall be provided
for each dwelling on the same lot therewith, or in common parking
facilities, provided that parking area contained therein are within
150 feet of the mobile home lots for which they are intended. Parking
for any commercial or other nonresidential use shall follow the requirements
otherwise applicable for such uses.
(2) Common parking areas. All parking areas shall conform to §§
215-33 and
215-35.