This district is intended to accommodate mobile home parks exclusively,
and is based on the premise that the demand for mobile homes in an
urban setting can best be supplied by the establishment of mobile
home park districts in the County. The following regulations are designed
to ensure an attractive and harmonious environment for mobile home
dwellings.
A. Accessory
structures and uses.
B. Family
division.
[Amended 12-17-2003]
E. Large
lot division.
[Amended 12-17-2003]
F. Mobile
home, double-wide or single-wide.
I. Public
utility (extension).
J. Single
cut subdivision.
[Amended 12-17-2003]
K. Subdivision,
major.
[Amended 12-17-2003]
L. Subdivision,
minor.
[Amended 12-17-2003]
M. Temporary
family health care structure.
[Amended 4-15-2015]
N. Wireless
support structures up to 80 feet.
[Amended 2-21-2018]
A. Garden tool storage buildings and detached carports.
B. Accessory buildings may not be larger than eight feet by eight feet
and shall be at least two feet from the space boundary lines for use
as storage building.
A mobile home park of more than 10 acres shall have more than
one street access.
The minimum setback, or front yard, of a mobile home park adjacent
to a public street shall be 100 feet, such distance to be measured
between the park property line and the nearest mobile home or other
structure. Except along mobile home park property lines which are
adjacent to a natural drainage area or a limited access highway, side
and rear yards shall contain a screen, fence or landscape planting
which shall be designed and planted to be at least 50% solid, year-round,
when viewed horizontally between two and six feet above average ground
level.
The minimum frontage for a mobile home park shall be 150 feet
on a public street or road.
Intensity of development shall be limited to no more than eight
mobile homes per acre of gross park area. Each site or lot for an
individual mobile home shall not be less than 4,000 square feet in
area and 44 feet wide, except that a space for a double-wide mobile
home shall not be less than 56 feet wide. Each lot shall be marked
by permanent markers at each corner.
Mobile homes shall be placed in spaces so that, at the nearest
point, they shall be at least 20 feet from all roadways, eight feet
from detached enclosed carports or garages and 16 feet from any other
mobile home, or attachment thereto, or other buildings. For the purpose
of the spacing requirements, a mobile home includes any attached,
enclosed structure. Detached enclosed carports or garages and storage
structures are not considered to be part of the mobile home nor are
attached unenclosed awnings, porches and carports. Mobile homes and
accessory structures shall not be more than 18 feet in height.
At least 10% of the gross park area shall be designated and
reserved for suitable recreational area; 50% of such areas shall be
provided outside of any established floodplain and shall have a slope
of not more than 5%.
All mobile homes shall be placed in a designated mobile home
space and shall not obstruct the use of, or overhang, any driveway,
roadway, walkway, or public utility easement.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
At least one parking space, 180 square feet in size, as required
by the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, shall be provided
for each mobile home space on, or adjacent to, or in a consolidated
parking area within 60 feet of the mobile home space. All required
parking areas shall be of hard surface and dustless construction.
All mobile home spaces shall abut upon a street or roadway of
not less than 20 feet in width or a parking area adjacent to a street
or roadway. Street or roadway parking is prohibited. Streets or roadways
shall have unobstructed access to a public street or highway. All
streets or roadways shall be of hard surface and of dustless construction,
and shall be identified by name and designated as such at each intersection
within the park.
All telephone, electrical distribution, water, fuel and other
utility lines shall be placed underground in a mobile home park. All
sanitary sewage connections for a mobile home shall be beneath the
mobile home.
The park management shall be responsible for the collection
and proper disposal of refuse. The storage and collection of refuse
shall be managed so that it does not create a health or fire hazard.
All refuse shall be stored in flyproof, watertight, rodentproof containers
provided in sufficient capacity.
Every application for the construction, alteration, expansion
of operation, maintenance and occupancy of a mobile home park shall
be accompanied with plans and specifications fully setting out the
space, motor vehicle parking spaces, the roadway giving access thereto,
a plan of landscaping and providing a connection to a sanitary sewer
and public water system for each and every mobile home. Before any
permit is issued for a mobile home park and the use thereof, the plans
and specifications shall first be approved by the County's Zoning
Administrator, County's Planning Commission and the County's Health
Department, taking into account all of the provisions as set out herein;
and provided, further, that said plans and specifications are in accordance
with state regulations governing mobile homes.
An adequate water supply facility and central sewage treatment
facility that meets the requirements of the Health Department shall
be installed to meet the needs of all the mobile homes within the
mobile home park.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
All mobile homes shall be mounted and anchored with tie downs
in accordance with the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
All mobile homes shall be skirted with fire-resistant materials
as approved by the Amelia County Building Official, which shall be
installed prior to occupancy of the mobile home.
A mobile home park shall have a greenbelt planting strip not
less than 20 feet in width along all subdivision boundaries. This
greenbelt shall not include public streets, rights-of-way, natural
floodplain or drainage areas, or limited access highways.
All applications required under this article shall require a
fee established by the local governing body which shall accompany
the applications when they are submitted for processing. The Zoning
Administrator shall make available to the public a schedule of the
fees.