The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Bethel is of the
opinion and finds that this proposed zoning district would promote,
protect and facilitate the public health, safety, morals and general
welfare and would provide for reasonable community development, proper
density and to provide a variety of housing types.
Unless a contrary intention clearly appears, the following words
and phrases shall have for the purpose of this article the meanings
given in the following clauses:
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR STRUCTURE
A subordinate building or structure which is an addition
to or supplements the facilities provided by a mobile home, such as
awnings, cabanas, ramadas, storage structures, carports, porches,
fences, skirting or windbreaks.
AWNING
A shade structure supported by posts or columns and partially
supported by a mobile home installed, erected or used on a mobile
home lot.
AWNING, FREESTANDING
A shade structure supported entirely by columns or posts
and not attached to or supported by a mobile home or structure.
AWNING WINDOW
A shade structure supported wholly by the mobile home or
building to which it is attached.
CARPORT
An awning or shade structure for a vehicle or vehicles, which
may be freestanding or partially supported by a mobile home.
COMMON AREA
Any area or space designed for joint use of residents of
mobile home developments.
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
The person who owns or has charge, care or control of the
mobile home development.
DENSITY
The number of mobile homes or mobile home stands per acre
of gross area.
DIAGONAL TIE
Any tie-down designed to resist horizontal or shear forces
and which deviates not to less than 30° from a vertical direction.
DRIVEWAY
A minor private way used by vehicles and pedestrians on a
mobile home lot or common access to a small group of lots or common
facilities.
EASEMENT
A vested or acquired right to use land, other than as a tenant,
for a specific purpose; such right being held by someone other than
the owner who holds title to the land.
FEEDER ASSEMBLY
The overhead or under-chassis feeder conductors, including
the grounding conductor, together with the necessary fittings and
equipment, or a power supply cord listed for mobile home use, designed
for the purpose of delivering energy from the source of electrical
supply to the distribution panel board within the mobile home.
FENCE
A vertical structure or enclosure designed as a barrier and
erected as a freestanding unit.
GROUND ANCHOR
Any device at the mobile home stand designed for the purpose
of securing a mobile home to the ground.
LOT AREA
The total area reserved for exclusive use of the occupants
of a mobile home.
LOT LINE
A line bounding the lot as shown on the accepted plot plan.
MOBILE HOME
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which
when erected on-site, measures eight body feet or more in width and
designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation,
when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing,
heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein.
Each mobile home shall be constructed in accordance with the National
Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C.
§ 5402 et seq. and in conformance with the provisions of
the BOCA Code adopted by the Township of Bethel and the requirements
of the Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Authorization
Act of 1982.
MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY
A mobile home development and related facilities, including
the mobile homes and all residents within the development.
MOBILE HOME LOT
A parcel of land for the placement of mobile home and the
exclusive use of its occupant.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land which has been so
designed and improved that contains 15 or more mobile home lots available
to the greater public for rent and the placement thereon of mobile
homes for occupancy which shall be held under one ownership.
MOBILE HOME PARK ELECTRICAL WIRING SYSTEM
All of the electrical wiring, fixtures, equipment and appurtenances
related to electrical installations within a mobile home park or subdivision,
including the mobile home service equipment.
MOBILE HOME STAND
The outline of the actual mobile home including the paved
portions of any outdoor living area. Proposed or anticipated structural
additions to a mobile home such as carports, cabanas, or attached
storage area shall be considered part of the mobile home stand.
PERSON
A person within the meaning of this chapter shall include
any individual, corporation, partnership, limited partnership who
owns, has charge of or care of and control of any mobile home development.
PIER
A concrete pillar 12 inches to 16 inches in circumference
usually placed three feet in the ground and used for support of mobile
homes.
PORCH
An outside walking area having the floor elevated more than
eight inches above the grade.
PRIVATE STREET
A private way, which affords principal means or access to
abutting individual mobile home lots and community service facilities.
Community management shall be responsible for the maintenance of all
private streets.
PUBLIC WATER AND PUBLIC SEWER
A.
Public water or any municipally or privately owned water system
with a Certificate of Public Convenience from the Pennsylvania Public
Utilities Commission for the distribution and sale of water, in accordance
with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
B.
Public sewer or any municipally or privately owned sewer system
in which sewage is collected from buildings and piped to an approved
sewage disposal plant or central septic tank disposal system and approved
by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. It may
also be referred to as an "off-lot" or "off-site sewer." All sewage
systems shall be constructed in accordance with the Bethel Township
Sewer Authority construction standards.
SEWER RISER PIPE
That portion of the sewer lateral to which extends vertically
to the ground elevation and terminates at each mobile home space.
SKIRTS
Panels specifically designed for the purpose of screening
the underside of a mobile home by forming an extension of the vertical
exterior walls for the mobile home and covering the entire distance
between the bottom of the exterior walls and the ground elevation
below.
STORAGE STRUCTURE
A structure located on a mobile home lot which is designed and used solely for the storage and use of personal equipment and possessions of the mobile home occupants; said structure to comply with the requirements of Article
II, Sec. 302(9) of this chapter.
TIEDOWNS
Any device designed for the purpose of anchoring a mobile
home to ground anchors.
TRAVEL TRAILER
A trailer used for temporary residence or for vacation purposes
designed to be mobile with permanently attached tires.
WINDBREAK
A vertical wall structure designed and erected as a freestanding
unit, the vertical surface of which is not more than 50% open.