§ 44-102. Manufactured home parks.

(a)

Intent. In order to provide manufactured home park developers with maximum siting flexibility and to provide the county with reasonable latitude to ensure consistency of a proposed manufactured home park with the spirit and intent of this chapter, McDuffie County has created conditions for a special exception in the R-3 General Zoning District in order to place general guidelines on the design and potential location of manufactured home parks.

(b)

Application and review procedures. Manufactured home parks is a use permitted by special exception only in an R-3 High Density Residential Zoning District. The developer or his authorized representative shall first present to the development code administrator for review a preliminary park design. At such time as the development code administrator shall approve the preliminary design, a preliminary plat shall then be forwarded to the planning commission (board) for its review. In addition to its review of the plat, the planning commission (board) shall convene a hearing as prescribed by this chapter to consider the applicant's request for a change in zoning. The results of the plat review and request for a zoning change shall thereafter be forwarded to the board of commissioners for final consideration. In reviewing the preliminary design and plat the development code administrator and the planning commission (board) shall consider any mitigating factors, and, any development criteria including, but not limited to, the following:

(1)

The minimum lot area for a manufactured home park shall be ten acres, but not more than 100 acres, at least 80 percent of which shall consist of developable land area.

(2)

The proposed park entrance shall have frontage along a collector or arterial street that satisfies the following minimum requirements:

a.

Fifty feet for any park that contains less than 15 acres;

b.

One hundred feet for any park that contains at least 15 acres, but less than 25 acres;

c.

One hundred fifty feet for any park that contains at least 25 acres, but less than 50 acres; and

d.

Two hundred feet for any park that contains at least 50 acres.

(3)

All parks shall have a 50-foot street recessed buffer and a 30-foot side and rear buffer. Buffers shall consist of natural vegetation or, if specified by the planning commission, the installation of landscaped vegetation to obscure the park from all park entrances and neighboring uses.

(4)

Manufactured homes class A, B and C (by definition) are permitted. Campers and RV's are permitted.

(5)

The lot should be designated on the future land use map for residential use.

(6)

No portion of the lot, or a park entrance may be located within the boundaries of the Flood Hazard Overlay District or the Usry Pond Watershed Overlay District.

(7)

Manufactured home park lots shall have access from interior park streets only.

(c)

Special development standards. The following special development standards shall also apply to all proposed manufactured home parks in addition to the applicable requirements of the general zoning district and overlay zone(s).

(1)

The minimum size of a manufactured home space or lot shall be 6,000 square feet with a minimum width of 60.

(2)

The minimum front setback shall be 70 feet from the centerline of the street. The minimum side and rear yard depth shall be ten feet from the lot line or bay boundary.

(3)

Each manufactured home shall comply with O.C.G.A. § 8-2-160 et seq. with regard to the siting and installation of manufactured homes. The use of solid paver footer blocks may be permitted in lieu of poured footers.

(4)

Each manufactured home shall be skirted with masonry or vinyl (only) around the base to obscure views of the pad and supports.

(5)

No manufactured home shall be admitted to any manufactured home park until at least ten lots or spaces have been improved for occupancy in accordance with this chapter.

(6)

Convenience establishments of a commercial nature, including stores, laundry and dry cleaning establishments and pick-up laundry and dry cleaning agencies, and beauty shops and barber shops may be permitted in manufactured home parks provided that such establishments and the parking areas primarily related to their operations:

a.

Shall not occupy more than ten percent of the area of the park;

b.

Shall be subordinate to the residential use and character of the park;

c.

Shall be located entirely within the boundary of the park;

d.

Shall present no visible evidence of their commercial character from outside the park.

(7)

All entrance and interior park streets shall be privately owned and maintained by the owner, developer, or manager with said streets being provided on the site where necessary to furnish principal trafficways for convenient access to all manufactured home spaces or lots and other important facilities on the property. All common land and facilities within a manufactured home park shall have adequate public access to all manufactured home spaces or stands.

(8)

The street system shall be designed to recognize existing easements, utility lines, and other dedicated lands which are to be preserved; and to permit connection to existing facilities where necessary for the proper functioning of the drainage and utility systems.

(9)

The street system should provide convenient circulation by means of minor streets and properly located major streets. Closed ends of dead-end streets should be provided with an adequate paved vehicular turning circle at least 80 feet in diameter. Parks consisting of more than 50 manufactured home spaces or lots shall provide at least two entrances from a public street which are separated by a distance of at least 200 feet from centerline to centerline as measured along the centerline of the intersecting public street.

(10)

All points of entrance to or exit from the park shall be located no closer than 200 feet from any intersection of two public streets or roads as measured from centerline-to-centerline along the appropriate road centerline.

(11)

All proposed streets within a manufactured home park shall comply with the standards in article VII, section 44-137 of this chapter.

(12)

All blocks created within a manufactured home park shall comply with the standards in article VII, section 44-138 of this chapter.

(13)

Each manufactured home park shall provide open spaces not occupied by any dwellings equal to at least ten percent of the total park lot area. The required open space may be used to create a single recreation area for residents of the park or integrated into the park design to create an internal green belt separating clusters of manufactured home spaces. The open space areas should be appropriately landscaped or improved to allow passive recreational uses, such as jogging, picnicking, and other forms of outdoor exercise. The required open space also may be used to increase privacy between clusters of manufactured home spaces within the park. At least fifty percent of all required open space lands must consist of developable land area.

(14)

All designated spaces or individual dwelling units in manufactured home parks shall adhere to the parking requirements in article V, section 44-85.

(Ord. of 3-23-99, Art. VI, § 2)

Cross reference

Manufactured homes and trailers, ch. 46.