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Article 5: Uses <br />Section 5.5: Standards for Residential Uses <br />(a) A Home Park shall be divided into individual Home Park Spaces, each <br />Home Park Space having an area and width consistent with Section 3.8. <br />The Orange County Health Department may increase the minimum area <br />requirements for the park and /or individual Home Park Spaces where <br />necessary to be consistent with groundwater resources and /or the <br />limitations of providing sewage disposal systems for the proposed mobile <br />home park. <br />(b) Only one mobile home or Temporary Residential Unit and its customary <br />accessory buildings may be located within any Home Park Space at ne <br />time. Additional Efficiency Units or Temporary Residential Units s II not <br />be permitted within an occupied Home Park Space. <br />(c) The location of each Home Park Space must be at an elevati , distance <br />and angle in relation to the adjacent access drive or street s ch that <br />placement and removal of the mobile home or Temporary esidential <br />Unit is practical by means of customary moving equipm t. <br />(d) The surface of each Home Park Space and the area round it shall be <br />graded where necessary to provide proper drain ag and prevent the <br />accumulation of water. <br />Each Home Park Space shall have a solid ba surface consisting of at <br />least three inches of compacted fill dirt, crus er run or Chapel Hill gravel, <br />or paved slab, and it shall comply with tho a standards specified in the <br />fate of North Carolina Regulations for obile Homes and Modular <br />H sin . Prior to installation of the b e surface, all top soil shall be <br />rem ved from the area to be occupi d by the mobile home or Temporary <br />Resid tial Unit. <br />(3) Unit Separation Pkequirements <br />The following separa 'on r shall pertain to every mobile home and <br />Temporary Residentia t within home park. <br />(a) Each mobile hom or T mporary Residential Unit shall be located at <br />least 20 feet from a er mobile home or Temporary Residential Unit <br />and /or building wit e home park. For purposes of determining <br />separation requir ents, all attached structures, including storage <br />buildings, carp s and co red porches, will be considered part of a <br />mobile home r Temporary sidential Unit. <br />(b) Each mob' home or Tempora Residential Unit shall be located at <br />least 22 et from the right of way ' e or edge of pavement of an access <br />drive street providing access to th space on which the mobile home <br />or T porary Residential Unit is locat , whichever is greater. <br />(c) etached accessory structure located ' hin an individual Home Park <br />pace shall be located at least five feet fro any mobile home or <br />Temporary Residential Unit or other building. <br />(4) In,561lation of Individual Units <br />Mobile Homes <br />Mobile homes shall be set up and installed in abR <br />standards specified in the State of North Carolina <br />Code and other reaulations for Mobile Modular Hi <br />ordance with <br />"'Residential <br />(ii) The owner /operator of a home park shall designate a u iform <br />type of solid foundation enclosure or skirting fully enclosihq the <br />crawl space beneath each mobile home. Foundation enclo %an <br />or skirting must be installed in accordance with applicable <br />standards of the North Carolina State Building Code and, i <br />Orange County, North Carolina - Unified Development Ordinance Page 5 -41 <br />