The purpose of the Mobile Home Park District is to provide adequate
facilities for mobile homes, to promote a safe and attractive neighborhood
environment that will complement surrounding properties, and to encourage
preservation of open space areas by centralizing mobile homes and
encouraging desirable conditions for good design and properly maintained
mobile home parks in concert with the Pennsbury Township Comprehensive
Plan of 2006, as amended.
A building may be erected or used, and a lot or premises may
be used, for one of the following principal uses and for no other:
A. Uses by right.
(1)
Mobile home park in conformance with this article and §
162-2031, provided it is served by public or community sewage and water systems.
(3)
Single-family detached dwelling under conventional development, in conformance with Article
VIII.
(4)
Agricultural/farming uses, nonintensive, in conformance with Article
VIII.
(5)
Forestry/timber harvesting in conformance with Article
XV.
(6)
Municipal uses including park and related accessory uses.
B. Uses by special exception when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board, subject to the standards of Article
XXIV of this chapter.
(2)
Outdoor active recreation use, such as a campground; but not including an amusement park, mini golf course, amphitheater, shooting range or similar uses, in conformance with §
162-2034.
C. Accessory uses. In addition to one principal use, accessory uses shall be permitted by right unless otherwise indicated as a special exception or conditional use in this chapter and shall be in accordance with §
162-2002 unless otherwise noted:
(1)
Accessory uses associated with mobile home park office or service
buildings.
(2)
Agricultural/farming accessory uses.
(4)
Minor home occupations in conformance with the applicable standards of §
162-2024.
Design standards contained in Article
VII of Chapter
138, Subdivision and Land Development, shall apply to all mobile home parks.
For additional standards applicable to permitted uses in this
district, refer to:
A. Article
XV, Natural Resources Protection, including the Groundwater Protection Overlay.
B. Article
XVI, Flood Hazard Overlay District.
C. Article
XIX, General Regulations, including lighting, screening and buffering, access, and parking.
D. Article
XX, Supplemental Uses.
F. Article
XXII, Nonconforming Uses, Buildings and Structures, Lots, and Signs.
G. Article
XVII, Historic Resources Overlay District.