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Page Five THE ZONING REPORT C. Standards for mobile home spaces and stands and for manufactured home lots. (a). Sites provided for mobile/manufactured homes. Mobile homes and manufactured homes in mobile home parks must be located on mobile home spaces. In manufactured home subdi- visions, only manufactured homes and conventional dwellings are allowed on lots. Mobile home spaces are never allowed in development projects other than in mobile home parks. (b). A mobile home space must have a mobile home stand. In codes, the stand has a mini- mum dimension of about 10 × 50 ft. Mobile/manufactured homes can only be located on the stand and not elsewhere on any other portion of the mobile home space. The stand must be positioned on its mobile home space so that a living unit placed on it can reasonably be expected to meet all required clearaneek. The stand must be designed so it does not heave, shift, or have uneven settling. Most codes require the stand to be level, but any slope of the stand or ground grade must allow a mobile home chassis to be located no higher than 3 ft above ground elevation at any point. (c). Skirting is required around the base of mobile homes, the hitch and transport mecha- nism removed or obscured or hidden by the skirting. It must be nonflammable, painted to match or be compatible with the unit and be kept clean and in repair. Storage is allowed under the unit, subject to fire safety and access for inspection under the trailer. (d). Mobile homes must have tiedowns and anchoring~ per building code. Manufactured homes located in mobile home parks can be anchored with tiedowns. (e) Permanent foundations for manufactured homes are required in manufactured home sub- divisions and on all other sites outside of mobile home parks. This foundation must be engi- neered, of masonry and concrete construction, and meet building code approval for founda- tions and for slab construction, if used. (f). Off-street parking areas for travel trailers, boats, RVs, trailers and commercial vehi- cles must be provided in a common storage area in the park. These vehicles cannot be par~ed or stored on mobile home spaces or on street8 but can only be stored in the common storage area. (g). Street trees and trees on sites~ native to the area, may be required for mobile home parks, with one street tree, including existing trees, located near each mobile home space or grouped as one or more landscape clusters in a block. The size of trees planted might be at least 15 gallons or 3-4 inches in caliper 6 ft above grade, with on-site trees functionally located near each mobile home space. Street trees and on-site trees in manufactured home subdivisions are required as provided in the zoning code or subdivision code for convention- al subdivisions. D. Off-street parking. (a). Number of spaces requir, e..d per unit. In mobile home parks, codes require one or two off-street parking spaces per unit, more recent codes requiring two spaces per unit, located on the mobile home space or lot. Many codes require at least one parking space to be lo- cated on the mobile home space or lot, with the remaining spaces distributed throughout the mobile home park in common parking areas as Visitor and guest parking, but located within 100-200 ft of living units. Parking spaces on the site can be located on the driveway in the front yard, juxtapositioned to allow cars to be Parked in tandem. All required spa- ces must be paved, usually as the driveway. In manufactured home subdivisions and PUDs, the number of parking spaces required per lot is that required by the zoning code for sin- gle-family dwellings. September 23, 1994 Issue