7 Cemetery Rd, Christiansburg, VA 24073

Planned Mobile Home Residential District

This district is established in order to provide opportunities for affordable housing alternatives and to recognize that selected locations in the community may be appropriately developed as areas of moderate population density properly related to the existing and potential development character in the vicinity. It is the county's purpose, with respect to location of new and expansion of existing planned mobile home residential park, hereafter abbreviated as PMRs, to avoid undue concentrations of such development by allowing the development or expansion of PMRs in association with other types of uses, by achieving a balance of housing types and by not overcrowding community facilities.; It is also the county's purpose, with respect to establishment of new and expansion of existing PMRs, to protect the health, safety and welfare by fostering standards of development commensurate with other forms of residential development.; The establishment or expansion of PMRs will recognize the density and base residential needs of mobile homes by addressing the following community development standards: Health of residents as protected by water and sewer systems and service equal to other forms of residential development; Safety of residents as protected by accessibility for fire, rescue and police vehicles equal to other forms of residential development; Safety of residents as protected by accessibility of utility maintenance vehicles, of snow and ice removal equipment, and of school buses transporting children; Safety of residents as protected by accessibility provided by sidewalks separated from streets and streets which have traffic controls and adequate geometric design; Health and safety of residents as protected by prohibition of new use and discouragement of continued use of mobile homes constructed prior to 1976; Accessibility of residents as provided by roads where service providers are willing to move household furnishings, collect solid waste and deliver mail or parcel post.