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community buildings, ways for pedestrians and cyclists away from streets, and play areas for small children or other similar recreational areas. b. Design Criteria for Common Recreation Areas. Areas contained in a continuous pedestrian or cyclist circulation system which consist of permanently maintained walks and trai is not less than twelve (12) feet in width leading to principal destinations on the site shall be countable as common recreation areas. ii. Areas designated as play areas or mini -parks which contain at least one (1) acre and have a minimum dimension of one hundred (100) feet and which are furnished with appropriate recreational equipment including but not limited to play- ground equipment, picnic tables, barbeque pits, and ball playing equipment and/or facilities shall be countable as common recreation areas. iii. If natural habitats of unique and significant value are determined to exist on the site and such areas are left undisturbed or are adequately protected from environmental degradation, the total land and water area of such habitats shall be countable as common recreation areas. iv. The entire area occupied by a multiple -use recreation building or facility, including attendant outdoor recreation facilities shall be countable as common recreation areas. V. Common recreational area shall not include streets, buffer areas, recreational vehicle spaces, buffer strips, storage areas, utility sites or parking areas, shall be closed to automotive traffic except for maintenance and service vehicles, and shall be improved and maintained for the uses intended. 3. Use Limitations. No permanent structures such as carports, cabanas, screen rooms, or similar structures may be erected or constructed at any recreational vehicle site, and the removal of wheels or hitch and the placement of the unit on a foundation or piers is prohibited. Notwithstanding, pop -out units and similar equipment integral to the recreational vehicle as manufactured shall be permitted. Permanent Occupancy Prohibited. No recreational vehicle shall be used as a permanent place of abode, dwelling, or business or for indefinite periods of time. Continuous occupancy extending beyond three (3) months in any twelve (12) month period shall be presumed to be perm- anent occupancy. Any action toward removal of wheels of a recreational vehicle except for temporary purposes of repair or to attach the trailer to the grounds for stabilizing purposes is hereby prohibited. Stabilization of Space. Each recreational vehicle space shall contain a stabilized vehicular parking pad composed of shell, marl, paving or other material approved by the County Engineer. Required Buffers. There shall be landscaped buffer strip not less than. fifty 50 feet in depth along all major streets abutting a recreational vehicle park, and a landscaped buffer strip not less than fifty (50) feet in depth along the other boundaries of the recre- ational vehicle park. -37-