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Page Three THE ZONING REPORT (b). A manufactured home subdivision consists of a group of manufactured homes located on a single tract platted as a subdivision designed exclusively for the siting of manufactured homes. Many localities allow these subdivisions by special project design as PUDs, cluster design, zero-lot-line and average lot size subdivisions. The manufactured homes are located on individually platted lots owned by the occupant of the site. (c). ~ulti-family manufactured home projects include townhouse, duplex-triptex-fourplex units and, possibly, garden apartments with the living units factory built as manufactured housing. No zoning code specifically regulates such projects as manufactured housing; these projects are built under the general zoning code provisions for these housing types as land uses and not as how the living units are built. These manufactured housing projects are few enough that review of the development plan is sufficient for regulating them. (d). Mobile home parks are allowed to be converted to condominiums in some states, where existing mobile/manufactured homes are allowed to remain. Mobile homes moved from the project after conversion may or may not be required to be replaced by manufactured homes. All mobile home spaces in the mobile home park that were previous]y rented to ten- ants are converted to lots platted in the condominium. The tenants become owners of the lots, and in most cases, tenants own their mobile home, which remains on the lot. The area and width of these lots usually are less than required in new manufactured home subdivi- sions approved as single-family condominiums. A condominium association of all lot owners must be created in accord with state condominium laws. (e). Mobile home parks and manufactured home subdivisions exclude tourist, RV and trailer camps and campgrounds. These are regulated as a separate use by the zoning code and have their own development standards. In mobile home parks and manufactured home subdivisions, living units are designed, constructed and placed on a site as a permanent residential living quarters; occupancy of campers, RVs, travel trailers and boats is prohibited although these units can be stored unoccupied in a park and subdivision. The living units in campgrounds, RV and tourist camps and parks are designed and constructed as temporary living quarters, with or without kitchen and sanitary facilities; Occupancy of mobile/manufactured homes is prohibited in campgrounds, RVs and tourist camps, nor can they be stored there. B. Define mobile home, manufactured home and modular home. (a). Differentiate mobile homes and manufactured homes from campers, RVs, motor homes and other temporary living units. As permanent dwellings, mobile homes and manufactured 'homes are designed to be located on a site for long periods of time, practical]y and com- mon}y for months and years, so that wheels and axles are merely a temporary means of first transport of these units to their site. As temporary dwellings, campers, RVs and such are designed to be located on sites overnight or other short periods of time as temporary living quarters for recreational use. These units have a degree of comfort not ordinarily accept- able as permanent living quarters, at locations away from the site of the permanent dwelling where they otherwise are stored unoccupied and not connected to any utilities. Wheels and a×les are essential to their function and are permanently attached for repeated use in trans- port of the units. (b). Definitions for mobile homes and manufactured homes are derived from federal laws and regulations imposed nationwide, on living quarters intended to be a primary residential unit manufactured and assembled in its entirety off-site in ~ factories on a chassis with wheels, transported to the site in one or more sections and assembled there either anchored to the site or placed on a permanent foundation. Septe~nber 9, 1994 Issue