§ 5. General design criteria.

A.

Selection of site.

1.

Area of site . The minimum area of a tract to be developed as a mobile home park shall be two acres, and the maximum area shall be six acres. The minimum frontage on a public street shall be 50 feet. The minimum number of mobile home lots completed and ready for occupancy, together with all required improvements and services, before the first occupancy of the park is permitted, shall be 25 percent of the total number proposed for the completed park.

2.

General location . The location of the mobile home park shall be convenient to community facilities and services such as employment centers, shopping centers, schools and recreation areas. Police and fire protection shall be reasonably accessible or provisions shall be made assuring those facilities and services.

3.

Access to the site . Direct vehicular access to the park shall be provided by means of an abutting improved street of such width and construction as to be adequate for vehicular traffic requirements of the park as well as the other properties served by the access street.

4.

Character of the site . The mobile home park site shall be selected with consideration of the proximity and possible effect of environmental factors which exist or may result from the change in land use with regard to the health and safety or comfort of persons who are to reside in the park or persons using land in the vicinity of the park. No site shall be used which does not either have municipal water supply, and which does not have municipal sanitary sewerage. No site shall be used which is subject to undue pooling of water, or air pollution by smoke, dust or fumes.

(Ord. No. 146-B-99, § 5, 1-5-2000; Ord. No. 181-2003, § 1, 9-3-2003)