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THE ZONING REPORT <br /> <br />Page <br /> <br />CHECKLIST OF P~OVISIONS FOE REGULATING MOBILE HOMES AND MANUFACTURED HOMES <br /> <br />TO BE INCLUDED IN ZONING CODES <br /> <br />(Part Two of two parts) <br /> <br />5. ZONING BULK STANDARDS <br /> <br />A. Perimeter zone yards, fences, wails and screens for mobile home parks. <br />sed in the prior issues Part One). <br /> <br />· . . (This topic discus- <br /> <br />B. Maximum height is~limited to 25-35 ft by many codes, but recent codes limit mobile homes to a <br />maximum height of o~e story and manufactured homes to 25 ft and 1-1/2 stories. Service buildings <br />are limited to one st(~ry and 12-20 ft in height. Single-family dwellings in the project are limited <br />to the number of sto~es and height allowed by single-family zones in the code, typically, 25-35 ft <br />and 2 to 2-1/2 storie~. <br /> <br />C. Minimum tract area for mobile home parks and manufactured home subdivisions. For mobile <br />home parks, minimum ~rea ranges from 20,000 sq ft to 20 acres, with most codes requiring a mini- <br />mum tract area of 5 ~o 10 acres, with 10 acres most common in recent codes. Some codes require <br />that the tract be lari~ enough to accommodate a minimum number of mobile home spaces, ranging <br />from 10 to 50 sites, ~ith 20 sites most typical. For manufactured home subdivisions, if a locality <br />provides for them as ~ separate type of development in the/zoning code, minimum tract area usu- <br />ally takes the same st~andards required of mobile home parks; otherwise these subdivisions have no <br />minimum tract size. <br /> <br />D. Zone yards for individual mobile home spaces and manufactured home lots. For mobile home <br />parks, most zoning co~i~ e~ do not impose conventional zone yards for the location of mobile/manu- <br />factured homes on mobile home spaces. Codes require minimum clearances between adjacent units, <br />from internal access s~reets, public ROW and other common areas in projects. Codes impose clear- <br />ances rather than zod, e yards since mobile/manufactured homes come in a wide variety of widths <br />and lengths and the ~tand upon which they sit has a standard Size upon which the unit must be <br />juxtapositioned to me~t the required clearances. Many mobile home parks set aside large spaces <br />and stands for long a~d wide units to meet required clearances without difficulty. <br /> <br /> (a). For mobil~ homes spaces., clearances are typically 15-20 f: between adjacent mobile/ <br /> manufactured ~omes,~: side to side, and 10-30 ft end-to end, with 20 ft typical. Clearance of <br /> mobile/manufa(itured homes to streets is 15-25 ft, with 15 ft required in earlier codes and <br /> 25 ft in more Irecent codes, measured to the edge. of the front line of the mobile home <br /> space. Some co~les require a 5-10 ft clearance between mobile homes and unattached acces- <br /> sory structures~ with no structures allowed in the area between mobile homes end to end <br /> nor in front of'~ mobile homes to the street. Clearances for add-ons for carports, porches, <br /> covered patiosiand storage sheds are 3-10 ft to the interior lot lines of the mobile home <br /> space, with 3-$ ft typical, with window awnings allowed to project 4 ft into any clearance <br /> area. · <br /> <br />Sept~-nber 23, 1994 i~sue <br /> <br /> <br />