CHAPTER 16-07
AREA: STREETS AND SIDEWALKS: PARKING: ILLUMINATION REGULATIONS SECTIONS:
16-0701. Required Setbacks, Buffer Strips, Screening and Density.
16-0702. Park Street System and Car Parking.
16-0703. Walks.
16-0704. Mobile Home Stands.
16-0705. Traffic Regulations.
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16-0701. REQUIRED SETBACKS, BUFFER STRIPS, SCREENING AND DENSITY.
1. All mobile homes shall be located at least twenty-five (25) feet from any park property boundary line abutting upon a public street or highway and at least fifteen (15) feet from other park property boundary lines.
2. There shall be a minimum distance of ten (10) feet between the mobile home stand and abutting park street.
3. All mobile home parks located adjacent to industrial or commercial land uses shall be provided with screening such as fences or natural growth along the property boundary line separating the park and such adjacent nonresidential uses.
4. No acre of land within any mobile home park shall contain more than seven (7) mobile home lots.
16-0702. PARK STREET SYSTEM AND CAR PARKING.
1. General Requirements. All mobile home parks shall be provided with safe and convenient vehicular access from abutting public streets and roads to each mobile home lot. Such access shall be provided by streets, driveways or other means.
2. Park Entrance. Entrances to mobile home parks shall be designated to minimize congestion and hazards and allow free movement of traffic on adjacent streets.
3. Internal Streets. Surfaced roadways shall be of adequate width to minimum requirements:
a. All streets except minor streets........... 24 Feet (From back of curb to back of curb)
b. Minor Streets.............................. 18 Feet (Acceptable only if less than Five Hundred (500) feet long and serving less than Twenty-five (25) mobile homes or of any length if mobile home lots abut one side only).
c. Dead End Streets shall be limited in length to 1,000 Feet and shall be provided at the closed end with a turn around having an outside roadway diameter of at least Sixty (60) feet.
4. Car Parking. Off-street parking area or off-street parking lanes shall be provided for the use of park occupants and guests. Such areas shall:
a. Be furnished at a rate of at least 1.50 car space for each mobile home lot.
b. Be located within a distance of Two Hundred (200) feet from the mobile home to be served unless other vehicular access is provided. The minimum street width requirement under Section 16-0702.3 shall be increased by seven (7) feet if on-street parking is the only type of car parking provided in a mobile home park.
5. Required Illumination of Park Street Systems. All parks shall be furnished with lighting units so spaced and equipped with luminaries placed at such mounting heights as will provide the following average maintained levels of illumination for the safe movement of pedestrians and vehicles at night:
a. All parts of the park street systems: 0.6 foot candle, with a minimum of 0.1 foot candle.
b. Potentially hazardous locations, such as major street intersections and steps or stepped ramps: Individually illuminated, with a minimum of 0.3 foot candle.
6. Street Construction and Design Standards.
a. Pavements. All streets shall be provided with a smooth, hard and dense surface which shall be durable and well drained under normal use and weather conditions. Pavement edges shall be protected to prevent raveling of the wearing surface and shifting of the pavement base. Street surfaces shall be maintained free of cracks, holes and other hazards.
b. Grades. Grades of all streets shall be sufficient to insure adequate surface drainage.
c. Intersections. Within one hundred (100) feet of an intersection, streets shall be at approximately right angles. A distance of at least one hundred fifty (150) feet shall be maintained between center lines of offset intersecting streets. Intersections of more than two (2) streets at one point shall be avoided.
16-0703. WALKS.
1. General Requirements. All parks shall be provided with safe, convenient all-season pedestrian access of adequate width for intended use, durable and convenient to maintain, between individual mobile homes, the park streets and all community facilities provided for park residents. Sudden changes in alignment and gradient shall be avoided.
2. Common Walk System. A common walk system shall be provided and maintained between locations where pedestrian traffic is concentrated. Such common walks shall have a minimum width of three and one-half (3½) feet.
3. Individual Walks. All mobile home stands shall be connected to common walks, to paved streets or to paved driveways or parking spaces connecting to a paved street. Such individual walks shall have a minimum width of two (2) feet.
16-0704. MOBILE HOME STANDS. The areas of the mobile home stand shall be improved to provide adequate support for the placement of the mobile home, thereby securing the superstructure against uplift, sliding, rotation and overturning. The mobile home shall not heave, shift or settle unevenly under the weight of the mobile home due to frost action, inadequate drainage, vibration or other forces acting on the structure.
16-0705. TRAFFIC REGULATIONS. The traffic regulations set out in Title XIII of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Harwood shall be in full force and effect and enforced on the streets within a mobile home park, with the exception that the parking regulations of Title XIII shall not be applicable. The speed limit on streets within a mobile home park shall be as set by the City Council of the City of Harwood. The City shall have the right to place speed limit signs, stop signs and other traffic signs as they deem appropriate. Such signs shall not be removed without the permission of the City of Harwood.