§ 85-357. Minimum requirements.

A. 

Minimum-maximum site area. The minimum site area shall be 50 acres, except that areas under 50 acres in size may be added to a mobile home community if contiguous thereto. The overall site may be developed sectionally, provided that each section being proposed for development is designed to contain at least 75 mobile homes. The maximum site area shall be 100 acres.

B. 

Density. There shall be a maximum of six mobile home units per gross acre.

C. 

Spacing. There shall be at least 20 feet between any mobile home and covered or walled structure in a mobile home lot and any other mobile home, street or common area set aside for usage of mobile home community occupants. No part of any open patio shall be located in any front yard of a mobile home lot or nearer than five feet to any side or rear mobile home lot line.

D. 

Occupancy. No mobile home shall be occupied unless it is properly placed on a mobile home stand and connected to water, sewerage and electrical facilities. No mobile home lot shall be rented for a period of less than 60 days.

E. 

Perimeter buffering. No part of any mobile home lot, accessory building, recreation area, vehicular roadway or parking area shall be within 50 feet of the front, rear or side property line. The fifty-foot buffer area shall be tree and shrub planted, if barren, or left in a natural wooded state. The mobile home community boundary shall be opaque-fenced or suitably screened with dense vegetation, as required at the discretion of the Planning Board.

F. 

Mobile home stand. Each mobile home lot shall be provided with a mobile home stand of impenetrable material capable of providing adequate support for the placement and tie-down of the mobile home. The mobile home stand shall not heave, shift or settle unevenly under the weight of the mobile home due to frost action, drainage, vibration or other forces acting on the structure during all seasons. Anchors or tie-downs, if provided, shall be placed at least at each corner of the mobile home stand, and each device shall be capable of sustaining the load placed upon it.

G. 

Skirts. Each mobile home owner shall, within 30 days after arrival in the mobile home community, enclose or skirt the bottom portion of the mobile home with either a concrete block, ornamental stone, metal, wood or skirt of other material which shall be properly ventilated and be substantially opaque so that the underpinnings of the mobile home are not easily visible. Such skirt shall assure visual appeal and be maintained in a satisfactory manner.

H. 

Parking. Two off-street spaces per mobile home lot are required, at least one of which shall be within 100 feet of the mobile home stand and the other not further than 200 feet away. Group off-street parking is allowed under these regulations. Each off-street parking space shall measure not less than 10 feet in width by 20 feet in depth. No on-street parking shall be permitted. Accessory camper vehicles, travel trailers, boats and other recreation-type vehicles shall be stored in screened, central storage areas. They shall not be placed on individual mobile home lots.

I. 

Streets. The internal street system in a mobile home community shall be privately owned, constructed and maintained and shall be designed and maintained for safe and convenient access to all spaces and facilities intended for use by community occupants. Alignment and gradient shall be adapted to the topography, to safe movement of the anticipated traffic and to satisfactory control of surface water and groundwater. All streets shall be provided with a smooth, hard, dense surface which shall be durable and well-drained under normal use and weather conditions and shall meet the approval of the Town Highway Department. All common streets, driveways and vehicular accessways shall be paved and curbed to prevent raveling of the wearing surface and shifting of the pavement base. All streets shall be paved for a width of at least 24 feet.

J. 

Walks.

(1) 

Common walks. Common walks may be required at the discretion of the Planning Board.

(2) 

Individual walks. All mobile home stands shall be connected to common walks, streets, driveways or parking spaces. Such walks shall be constructed of impervious material and have a minimum width of two feet.

K. 

Outdoor living area. Each mobile home lot shall be provided with an outdoor living area of not less than 450 square feet, of which not less than 150 square feet, with at least a dimension of 10 feet in width, shall be a paved or hard-surfaced patio. Such outdoor living area may be fenced, shrub-planted or otherwise suitably screened to ensure reasonable privacy and visual appeal and shall be maintained in a satisfactory manner.

L. 

Service building. Each mobile home community shall contain at least one service building which shall house management offices, in addition to such facilities as are permitted or required in this article. The management office shall maintain a register containing the names and lot locations of all community occupants. Such register shall be made available to any authorized person inspecting the community.

M. 

No commercial uses. No commercial uses shall be permitted in a Mobile Home Community District, except that coin-operated laundry machines and customary coin-operated food, cigarette and other related machines may be provided in a service building.

N. 

Standard construction. All mobile homes shall be built to American National Standards Institute standards and shall bear an ANSI Standard A119.1 factory seal to that effect.

O. 

Storage. A fully enclosed storage shed not more than 80 square feet in area may be provided on each mobile home lot and shall be so constructed as to blend aesthetically with the mobile home and surrounding area. In lieu of or in addition to this storage shed, a service building or buildings may be provided in the mobile home community for storage purposes.