This R-5 Mobile Home Park District is designed solely for mobile
home parks and such accessory structures and uses normally associated
thereto, in accordance with those regulations specified by the Mobile
Home Commission Act, Act No. 96 of the Public Acts of Michigan of
1987 (MCLA § 125.2301 et seq.), as amended, and in accordance
with the area requirements specified in this article.
Uses permitted in an R-5 Mobile Home Park District are mobile
home parks and those uses customarily incidental to the principal
use.
[Amended 12-14-1988 by Ord. No. 172]
Regulations which must be followed in the R-5 Mobile Home Park
District are as follows:
A. R-5 Mobile Home Park Districts shall have frontage on a primary or
major county street, or similarly adequate thoroughfare or a state
trunkline.
B. R-5 Mobile Home Park Districts shall not be less than five acres
in size.
C. The owner of every mobile home park which lies immediately adjacent
to a residential district shall provide a screening area separating
the park from the adjoining residential district. The screen shall
be in the form of either a wall, fence, or evergreen planting which
is compact and maintained in good condition at all times. The height
of the screen shall not be less than five feet, except where the screen
would interfere with traffic safety, in which case it may be reduced
in height to, but not less than, three feet in height. Adequate landscaping
shall also be provided by the owner of the mobile home park within
the front yard setback area, between the mobile home sites and any
public street, so as to provide an attractive frontage upon the street.
D. All interior drives within a mobile home park shall be paved with
asphalt or a similar hard surface to a minimum width of 20 feet. Paved
parking spaces for each mobile home site shall be provided in addition
to the twenty-foot service drive, either by the provision of additional
parking lanes or by parking spaces off the driveway.
E. Sidewalks, not less than 30 inches wide, constructed of asphalt or
concrete, shall be provided extending between individual mobile home
sites and the park service buildings.
F. Interior drives and walkways shall be lighted at intervals of not
more than 100 feet by electric lamps of not less than 100 watts each.
G. Each mobile home site shall contain an area of not less than 2,000
square feet and have a width of not less than 30 feet.
H. Each mobile home site shall be well drained and be provided with
a concrete slab base for the storage of each mobile home.
I. No mobile home within a park shall be within 35 feet of a residential
district boundary.
J. Where individual fuel oil tanks are used above ground level, they
shall be placed on permanent masonry foundations of uniform design.
K. Site and development plans of new mobile home parks or additions
to existing parks shall be submitted to and approved by the Village
Council or its authorized representatives, as such may be designated
from time to time by the Village Council, and no mobile home park
shall be licensed or licensable unless the plans are first approved
by the Village Council or its authorized representative.
L. Every mobile home park established within the Village shall be inspected
periodically by an official designated by the Village Council. The
frequency of the inspections and any fees shall be determined by the
Village Council.
Except as elsewhere specified, the lot, yard and area requirements in an R-5 Mobile Home Park District shall be as specified in §
475-118.