Baytown |
Code of Ordinances |
Chapter 58. MANUFACTURED HOMES, MOBILE HOMES, RECREATIONAL VEHICLES AND PARKS |
Article II. EXISTING MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES |
Division 3. WITHIN MANUFACTURED HOME PARKS |
SubDivision II. Standards |
§ 58-100. Streets.
(a)
All manufactured home parks shall be provided with safe and convenient vehicular access from abutting public streets or roads to the internal parking area or manufactured home stand. Alignment and gradient shall be properly adapted to topography.
(b)
Access to manufactured home parks shall be designed to minimize congestion and hazards at the entrance or exit and allow free movement of traffic on adjacent streets. The entrance road connecting the park streets with a public street or road shall have a minimum road pavement width of 34 feet where parking is permitted on both sides, or a minimum road pavement width of 27 feet where parking is limited to one side. Where the primary entrance road is more than 100 feet long and does not provide access to abutting manufactured home lots within such distance, the minimum road pavement width may be 24 feet, provided parking is prohibited at both sides.
(c)
Surfaced roadways shall be of adequate width to accommodate anticipated traffic, and in any case shall meet the following minimum requirements:
(1)
All streets, except minor streets, shall be not less than 24 feet in width.
(2)
Minor streets, when parking is prohibited, shall not be less than 20 feet in width. Such a street will be acceptable only if it is less than 500 feet long and serves fewer than 25 mobile homes, manufactured homes and recreational vehicles; provided, such street may exceed 500 feet if it is a one-way street and provides access to abutting manufactured home sites on one side only.
(3)
Dead-end streets shall not exceed 1,000 feet in length. Such streets shall be provided with a turnaround at the closed end and have an outside roadway diameter of at least 60 feet.
(d)
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 dust, cracks, holes, and other hazards.
(e)
Grades of all streets shall be sufficient to ensure adequate surface drainage, but shall be not more than eight percent. Short runs with a maximum grade of 12 percent may be permitted, provided traffic safety is assured by appropriate paving, adequate leveling areas and avoidance of lateral curves.
(f)
Within 100 feet of an intersection, streets shall be approximately right angles. A distance of at least 150 feet shall be maintained between centerlines of offset intersecting streets. Intersections of more than two streets at one point shall be avoided.
(g)
All manufactured home 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:
(1)
All parts of the park street system shall average 0.6 footcandles and no part shall have less than 0.1 footcandle.
(2)
Potentially hazardous locations, such as major street intersections and steps or stepped ramps shall be individually illuminated and shall have a minimum of 0.3 footcandles.
(Ord. No. 8151, § 2, 12-16-97)