[Code 1974, § 104-3(A)]
(a)
Conditions of the soil, groundwater level, drainage, and topography
shall not create hazards to the property or the health or safety of
the occupants, as determined by the county Health Department.
(b)
Exposed ground surfaces in all parts of every mobile home park shall
be maintained in a reasonable dust-proof condition.
(c)
The ground surface in all parts of every mobile home park shall be
graded and equipped to drain all surfaces of water to the satisfaction
of the Township Engineer.
[Code 1974, § 104-3(B)]
(a)
No part of any mobile home park shall be used for nonresidential
purposes, except such areas that are required for the direct servicing
and well-being of the park residents and for the management and maintenance
of the park; provided, however, that retail sales of new or used mobile
homes may be made from the park by the owners of the park or the sole
licensee or agent of the owners, but all such mobile homes held for
sale shall be displayed on regular mobile home sites of the park and
the mobile homes on display shall be limited to 15% of the available
sites in the park.
[Code 1974, § 104-3(C)]
No mobile home shall be permitted to occupy any mobile home
sites if the home is either longer or wider than would permit compliance
with the following requirements:
(1)
The boundaries of every mobile home site shall be clearly and permanently
designated according to the dimensions and locations shown on the
approved plot plan.
(2)
There shall be open spaces of at least 25 feet between the sides,
ends, or side and end of any two mobile homes. In parks incorporating
a cluster arrangement, the required distance between mobile homes
may be reduced to 15 feet at one end, provided that the average distance
between homes is not less than 25 feet.
(3)
No mobile home shall be located closer than 30 feet to any park vehicular
drive or street.
(4)
No mobile home shall be located closer than 50 feet to any park boundary
line abutting other than a public street.
(5)
All mobile homes, occupied or vacant, shall be set back at least
40 feet from any public roadway or set back the distance required
by the setback requirements of the Master Plan for Major Streets and
Highways, Meridian Charter Township, Ingham County, Michigan for the
type of street on which it fronts or sides, whichever is the greater
distance.
(6)
No motor vehicles shall be parked within the open space required
between mobile homes or closer than 10 feet to any mobile homes.
[Code 1974, § 104-3(D)]
(a)
All mobile home parks shall be provided with at least two points
of safe and convenient vehicular access from an abutting street. No
entrance to a park shall be located closer than 125 feet from the
point of intersection of the proposed rights-of-way of any two streets.
(b)
Each individual mobile home site shall abut, face, or have clear,
unobstructed access to a drive, road, or street within the park. All
streets shall have an approved cross section and the paved surface
shall not be less than 24 feet in width. No park shall provide or
have direct access through any recorded single-family subdivision.
(c)
All streets or drives shall be provided with a smooth, graded, drained,
and paved durable surface commencing from the public street to and
throughout the park. All street surfaces shall be maintained free
of holes and other hazards.
[Code 1974, § 104-3(E)]
(a)
Ratio, dimensions. Paved, off-street parking shall be provided in
all mobile home parks for the use of occupants and guests. Parking
spaces shall be at the ratio of at least two car spaces, not less
than 10 feet by 20 feet in size for each mobile home site.
(b)
Parking between mobile homes prohibited; separate parking area for
recreation equipment. No motor vehicle shall be permitted to be parked
or stored within any required open space between mobile homes or on
any drive or street within the park. The park developer or owner shall
also provide a separate area either fenced, screened, or enclosed
within the park for the storage of tenants' camping trailers,
boats, snowmobiles, and other similar recreational equipment, and
such items shall not be stored in any other area of the park.
(c)
Interior parking. Paved parking bays or off-street parking spaces
shall be provided within the thirty-foot setback area between interior
park streets and the mobile home, provided that no parking space shall
be located closer than 10 feet to any mobile home.
(d)
Carports. If carports are provided, they shall comply with all setback
and open space requirements for mobile homes.
(e)
Additional parking. Additional parking, equal to one space for four
mobile homes, shall be provided for storage of park equipment.
[Code 1974, § 104-3(F)]
(a)
All parks shall be provided with safe, convenient, all-season pedestrian
access of adequate width for intended use. Such access shall be durable
and convenient to maintain.
(1)
Common walks. A common concrete or paved walk system shall be provided
and maintained between locations where pedestrian traffic is concentrated.
Such common walks shall have a minimum width of four feet.
(2)
Individual walks. All mobile homes shall be connected by concrete
or paved individual walks, not less than two feet in width and to
common walks and parking areas.
[Code 1974, § 104-3(G)]
All mobile home stands shall be of reinforced concrete pad measuring
at least four inches in depth, 12 feet in width, and 50 feet in length.
[Code 1974, § 104-3(H)]
(a)
Seventy-five percent of all the mobile home sites shall have a minimum
effective lot width of 50 feet and an area of not less than 5,000
square feet. Twenty-five percent of the sites may have a minimum effective
width of 40 feet but not less than 4,000 square feet.
(b)
Parks so designed as to provide clusters utilizing common open space
areas for recreation, etc., may reduce for those lots abutting on
the common space, the area of the individual lots by 15%, provided
that the common open space must be at least equal to the total area
by which abutting lots have been reduced.
(c)
The Planning Commission may authorize up to 10% variance of any required
site dimensions, provided that the average dimensions of all lots
is in compliance with the minimum required dimensions required by
this article.
