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463 EXCEPTION: A mobile home space in a designated watershed area shall be consistent with the Watershed Overlay District as referenced in the Cabarrus County Zoning Ordinance. (6) Not more than one (1) mobile home shall be parked on any mobile home space. (7) Each mobile home space shall contain a patio of at least thirty-six (36) square feet. It must be constructed of concrete. A hard surface walkway of asphalt or concrete to be two (2) feet wide minimum, leading from the parking spaces to the patio shall be provided. (8) All mobile homes adjacent to a publicly dedicated road shall be located a minimum of thirty (30) feet from the public right-of-way of the road, or no less than thirty (30) feet from the edge of pavement of an internal private street. (9) Parking areas for motor vehicles shall be provided at a ratio of two (2) parking spaces for each mobile home living unit. Each parking space shall be at least 210 square feet in area, have a minimum width of ten (10) feet, and shall be paved with either asphalt or concrete. No parking shall be permitted on the streets. Sidewalk area cannot be included in the required parking spaces. (10) Each mobile home space shall be located on ground with an elevation that is not susceptible to flooding and which is graded to effect positive drainage and to prevent any water from ponding in or around the mobile home park. (11) Each mobile home space shall be graded and graded areas landscaped to prevent erosion and provide adequate storm drainage away from the mobile home. (12) No dwelling shall be allowed within a mobile home park if its total area is less than 256 square feet. (i.e., travel trailers). (13) The roads of the mobile home park shall be designed in accordance with the minimum design standards of the North Carolina Department of Transportation as it applies to subdivision streets. (14) No mobile home shall have vehicular access to a public street (other than those within the interior of the park). (15) Closed end of dead-end drives or roads shall be provided with a turning circle of at least seventy (70) feet in diameter, cul-de- sac length shall not exceed eight hundred (800) feet in length. (16) No banks, except along large drainage ditches, in the park shall have a slope steeper than three (3) feet length to one (1) foot elevation. (17) Permanent mobile home parks shall have a sign for identification and the sign shall be as follows: Mobile home park identification signs shall not exceed forty (40) square feet. Such signs shall have a minimum area of fifteen (15) square feet and may be illuminated. Only direct non-flashing lighting will be used for illumination and the sign must be constructed in such a manner as to prevent a direct view of the light source from any public street right-of-way. Signs shall not be located within any public right-of-way. - (18) Screening shall be utilized on all sides of a mobile home park. Consideration shall be given to topography, large trees, vegetation, site design and land uses in the evaluation of the extent of required screening. Whenever screening is required, either a durable masonry wall, fence or berm, material planting and landscaping, designed to be compatible with the character of adjoining properties shall be provided. Walls and fences shall be at least five (5) feet in height and measured from the ground along the common lot line of the adjoining properties. The use of vegetation shall reach fifty (50) percent opacity within two (2) years after being planted. ~ (19) Recreation areas shall be provided and approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission to meet the anticipated needs of residents of the mobile home park. Not less than eight (8) percent of the gross site area shall be devoted to recreational areas. Active recreational equipment shall be provided in the recreation areas. Provision of separate adult and tot recreation areas are encouraged. The responsibility of the recreational common areas