The purpose of this district is to provide areas
where groupings of manufactured mobile homes may occur in an appropriate,
sanitary, and attractive environment including related recreational
and service facilities.
A building or land shall only be used for the
following purposes and in all cases shall be subject to site plan
review and approval.
A.
Customary single-family residential uses only, as
otherwise associated with development and use of a residentially zoned
lot in the R-1 District.
B.
Mobile home parks, provided that:
(1)
Access to the mobile home park shall be from a major
thoroughfare; the number and location of access drives shall be controlled
for traffic safety and protection of surrounding properties; no mobile
home space shall be designed for direct access to a street outside
the boundaries of the mobile home park; and the interior access drives
shall be properly lighted and at least 30 feet in width of right-of-way,
hard-surfaced and maintained at least 20 feet in width, in accord
with applicable Town specifications and ordinances.
(2)
The topography of the site shall be such as to facilitate
rapid drainage, and adequate drainage facilities shall be provided.
(3)
The minimum width and/or depth of the mobile home
park shall be 200 feet, and the minimum total area of the mobile home
park shall be five acres.
(4)
The minimum area for a mobile home site for parking
one home shall be 4,000 square feet, with no dimension less than 40
feet, and with corners of each site visibly marked and numbered by
a permanent marker.
(5)
In addition to the requirement of Subsection B(4) above, the mobile home park shall contain at least 1,000 square feet per mobile home for community facilities, including play space, utility rooms, parking, and access roads.
(6)
The mobile home park shall be surrounded by a landscaped
strip of open space 50 feet wide along the street frontage with a
major street or major highway and 35 feet wide along all other lot
lines or street frontage, the specific type of landscaping being subject
to approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board of
Appeals.
(7)
Mobile home shall be parked closer than 25 feet to
any other mobile home or service building, and no part of a mobile
home shall extend closer than five feet to the boundaries of the individual
mobile home site.
(8)
Off-street parking spaces for automobiles shall be
hard-surfaced and provided in the ratio of 1 1/2 spaces per mobile
home in locations convenient to individual groups of mobile homes.
(9)
In a residential district, accessory signs, in addition
to internal directional signs, shall be limited to one flat or detached,
nonilluminated or indirectly illuminated sign, with sign area limited
to 10 square feet and sign height not exceeding five feet.
(10)
Mobile home parks shall be served by public
water supply and sanitary sewers, subject to approval by the Town.
Proper provision shall be made for electrical connections, fire protection,
and refuse collection.
(11)
The proposed mobile home park shall comply with
all provisions of this chapter and state and local laws and regulations.
(12)
Service or utility buildings are permitted within
the park for use as postal, mobile home supplies, and mobile home
park office; provided, however, that all use of the facilities shall
be designed for occupants of the park.
Requirements for minimum lot area, yards, and open space, and maximum height are contained in the table of district regulations at the end of this section and in § 245-37B above.
Certain uses are permitted as conditional uses requiring approval of a special exception by the Board of Appeals, according to the regulations of Article XVII of this chapter.
