Consistent with the City's goal to provide a mix of housing styles, types, and densities to accommodate the residential needs of all groups, the Manufactured Home Park District is intended to provide regulations for manufactured home residential developments to permit additional variety in housing opportunities and choices.
[Amended 2-19-2008 by Ord. No. 175]
No land or buildings in the R-4 District shall be used, erected, altered or converted, in whole or in part, by right except for the following uses:
A. 
Manufactured homes located in a state-licensed manufactured home park.
B. 
Manufactured home parks in accordance with the requirements of Section 9-5.
C. 
Family day-care homes or foster care family homes.
D. 
Accessory buildings, structures, and uses.
E. 
Home occupations.
F. 
Municipal parks.
[Amended 6-17-2019 by Ord. No. 238]
Except for permitted uses, no land or buildings in the R-4 District shall be used, except for the following purposes when approved in accordance with the requirements of Article 17.
A. 
Carports.
B. 
Group day-care home or adult foster care group home.
C. 
Utility and public service buildings, without storage yards, but not including essential public services such as poles, wires, and underground utility systems.
All permitted uses and special land uses are subject to the following site development requirements:
A. 
Site Plan Review is required for manufactured home parks and all special land uses in accordance with Article 19.
B. 
Parking is required in accordance with Article 15.
C. 
Signs are permitted in accordance with the requirements of Article 16.
D. 
All applicable floodplain requirements of Article 5.
A. 
All manufactured home parks shall comply with the applicable requirements of Public Act 96 of the Michigan Public Acts of 1987, as amended.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See MCLA § 125.2301 et seq.
B. 
The parking of more than one manufactured home on a single parcel of land or on two or more adjoining parcels of land under common ownership shall be illegal in the City of New Buffalo, irrespective of the requirements of any other ordinance of the City of New Buffalo, unless such parcel or parcels of land shall have been approved as a licensed manufactured home park under the provisions of this article.
C. 
All applications to establish a Manufactured Home Park District must be approved by the City Council, upon the recommendation of the Planning Commission.
D. 
Manufactured home sales. The business of selling new and/or used manufactured homes as a commercial operation in connection with the operation of a manufactured home development is prohibited. New or used manufactured homes located on lots within the manufactured home park may be sold by a licensed dealer and/or broker. This section shall not prohibit the sale of a new or used manufactured home by a resident of the manufactured home development provided the development permits the sale.