All manufactured home communities and modifications of or additions
or extensions to existing communities shall comply with the following:
A. Chapter SPS 326, Wis. Adm. Code, as now existing or hereafter amended,
is hereby made a part of this chapter and incorporated herein by reference
as if fully set forth, except that such regulations shall not be deemed
to modify any requirement of this chapter or any other applicable
law or ordinance of the state or Village.
B. Manufactured home spaces shall be a minimum of 50 feet wide and 100
feet in depth, have a setback of 20 feet from all street rights-of-way,
and have a side yard setback of 10 feet, except that driveways may
extend to within four feet of a property line. Accessory structures,
such as awnings, cabanas, storage cabinets, carports, windbreaks or
attached porches, shall be considered part of the unit for purposes
of determining compliance with this provision. No manufactured home
site shall be rented for a period of less than 30 days. There shall
be two surfaced automobile parking spaces for each manufactured home.
Unless adequately screened by existing vegetative cover, a manufactured
home community shall be screened around its outer perimeter by a planting
of hedges or trees, capable of reaching a height of 15 feet or more,
the individual trees to be such a number and so arranged that, within
10 years, they will have formed a screen equivalent in opacity to
a solid fence or wall. Such planting shall be grown or maintained
to a height of not less than 15 feet when mature.
C. No manufactured home community shall be laid out, constructed or
operated without Village sanitary sewer and water service.
D. All liquid wastes originating at units, service or other buildings
shall be discharged into a sewerage system extended from and connected
with the public sewerage system. Such systems shall comply with all
provisions of the state codes and Village ordinances relating to plumbing
and sanitation. Each individual space shall be provided with a three-inch
watertight sewer connection protected from damage by heaving and thawing
or parking of the unit and located within the rear 1/3 of the stand,
with a continuous grade which is not subject to surface drainage,
so constructed that it can be closed when not in use and trapped in
such a manner that it can be kept odor free.
E. Adequate provision shall be made for the disposal of solid and liquid
wastes in a manner approved by the Village Board. Open burning of
waste or refuse is prohibited.
F. All television cable systems, electrical and telephone distribution
lines and oil or gas piping serving the community or spaces therein
shall be installed underground. Distribution systems shall be new,
and all parts and installations shall comply with all applicable federal,
state and local codes.
G. Each space shall be provided with direct electrical service of not
less than 100 amperes for two-hundred-twenty-volt service.
H. A minimum of two off-street parking spaces surfaced with bituminous
concrete or similar material capable of carrying a wheel load of 4,000
pounds shall be provided for each manufactured home space.
I. Condition of soil, groundwater level, drainage and topography shall
not create hazards to the property, health or safety of occupants
of manufactured home spaces or living units. The site shall not be
exposed to objectionable smoke, noise, odors or other adverse influences,
and no portion subject to unpredictable and/or sudden flooding, subsidence
or erosion shall be used for any purpose which would expose persons
or property within or without the community to hazards.
J. Exposed ground surfaces in all parts of every manufactured home community
shall be paved or covered with stone screenings or other solid material
or protected with a vegetative growth that is capable of preventing
soil erosion and eliminating objectionable dust.
K. The ground surface in all parts of every manufactured home community
shall be graded and equipped to drain all surface water in a safe,
sanitary and efficient manner.
L. All communities shall be furnished with individual outdoor lot lighting
of 25 to 60 watts so spaced and equipped with luminaires placed for
the safe movement of pedestrians and vehicles at night.
M. All manufactured home spaces shall abut upon a street. All streets
shall be provided with a smooth, hard and dense surface which shall
be well drained under normal use and weather conditions for the area.
Pavement edges shall be curbed and protected to prevent raveling of
the wearing surface and shifting of the pavement base. Grades of streets
shall be sufficient to ensure adequate surface drainage but not more
than 8%, provided that a maximum grade of 12% may be used if approved
by the Director of Public Works as safe and designed to avoid traffic
hazards. Streets shall be at approximately right angles within 100
feet of an intersection. Intersections of more than two streets at
one point shall not be allowed. A distance of at least 150 feet shall
be maintained between center lines of offset intersecting streets.
N. All communities shall be provided with pedestrian walks between individual
manufactured homes, community streets and community facilities of
not less than three feet in width. Grade and surfacing of walks shall
be approved by the Director of Public Works as safe and comparable
to sidewalks in other areas of the municipality subject to similar
usage, except that, as an alternative, inverted curbing may be used
which provides approximately three feet of concrete walking area adjacent
to the curbline.
O. All manufactured home communities shall have a greenbelt or buffer
strip not less than 10 feet wide along all boundaries. Unless adequately
screened by existing vegetative cover, manufactured home communities
shall be provided within such greenbelt or buffer strip with screening
of natural growth or screen fence, except where the adjoining property
is also a manufactured home community. Compliance with this requirement
shall be made within five years from the granting of the manufactured
home community developer's permit. Screening or planting requirements
may be waived or modified by the governing body if it finds that the
exterior architectural appeal and functional plan of the community,
when completed, will be materially enhanced by modification or elimination
of such screen planting requirements.
P. Manufactured home community operators shall, at the time of approval,
pay any community development fees required for conventional subdivisions
under applicable provisions of the Village ordinances.
Q. Single-family nondependent manufactured homes and approved accessory
structures included in the original plans and specifications or revisions
thereof, playgrounds, open space, off-street parking lots, one community
office and service buildings for exclusive use of community residents
shall be the only permitted uses in manufactured home communities,
provided that the Village Board may approve the following uses when
designed and limited to exclusive use of community residents:
(2)
Clubhouses and facilities for private, social or recreation
clubs.
R. No signs shall be erected in manufactured home communities.
S. All manufactured home communities shall be provided with safe and
convenient vehicular access from abutting public streets or roads
to each manufactured home space. Entrances to communities shall be
designed to minimize congestion and traffic hazards and allow free
movement of traffic on adjacent streets.
T. All manufactured home communities shall have one or more recreation,
community or playground areas easily accessible to all community residents.
Each recreation area shall contain not less than 5,000 square feet.
Recreation areas shall be located to be free of traffic hazards and
convenient to the manufactured home spaces which they serve.
U. All manufactured home communities shall have one or more structures
provided as an emergency shelter against strong winds, such as tornadoes,
to house three people per manufactured home or not less than 10 square
feet per person. This structure shall be below ground level unless
constructed with sufficient construction materials to be reasonably
resistant to tornado winds.
All plumbing, electric, electrical, building and other work
on or at any manufactured home community under this chapter shall
be in accordance with the ordinances of the Village and the requirements
of the State Plumbing, Electrical and Building Codes and the regulations
of the State Department of Safety and Professional Services. Licenses
and permits granted under this chapter grant no right to erect or
repair any structure, to do any plumbing work or to do any electric
work.
The following guides, standards and requirements shall apply
in site planning for manufactured home communities:
A. Principal vehicular access points. Principal vehicular access points
shall be designed to encourage smooth traffic flow with controlled
turning movements and minimum hazards to vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
Merging and turnout lanes and/or traffic dividers shall be required
where existing or anticipated heavy flows indicate need. In general,
minor streets shall not be connected with streets outside the district
in such a way as to encourage the use of such minor streets by substantial
amounts of through traffic. No lot within the community shall have
direct vehicular access to a street bordering the development.
B. Access for pedestrians and cyclists. Access for pedestrians and cyclists
entering or leaving the community shall be by safe and convenient
routes. Such ways need not be adjacent to or limited to the vicinity
of vehicular access points. Where there are crossings of such ways
and vehicular routes at edges of planned developments, such crossings
shall be safety located, marked and controlled, and where such ways
are exposed to substantial vehicular traffic at edges of communities,
safeguards may be required to prevent crossings except at designated
points. Bicycle paths, if provided, shall be so related to the pedestrianway
system that street crossings are combined.
C. Protection of visibility for automotive traffic, cyclists and pedestrians.
At intersections of any streets, public or private, the provisions
of §
510-43 shall apply and are hereby adopted by reference.
D. Ways for pedestrians and/or cyclists in exterior yards. In any exterior
yard, required or other, ways for pedestrian and/or cyclists may be
permitted, if appropriately located, fenced or landscaped to prevent
potential hazards arising from vehicular traffic on adjacent streets
or other hazards and annoyances to users or to occupants of adjoining
property. When otherwise in accord with the requirements concerning
such ways set forth above, approved ways in such locations shall be
counted as common recreation facilities and may also be used for utility
easements.
E. Internal relationships. The site plan shall provide for safe, efficient,
convenient and harmonious groupings of structures, uses and facilities,
and for appropriate relation of space inside and outside buildings
to intended uses and structural features. In particular:
(1)
Streets, drives and parking and service areas. Streets, drives
and parking and service areas shall provide safe and convenient access
to dwellings and community facilities and for service and emergency
vehicles, but streets shall not be so laid out as to encourage outside
traffic to traverse the community, nor occupy more land than is required
to provide access as indicated, nor create unnecessary fragmentation
of the community into small blocks. In general, block size shall be
the maximum consistent with use, the shape of the site and the convenience
and safety of the occupants.
(2)
Vehicular access to streets. Vehicular access to streets from
off-street parking areas may be direct from dwellings if the street
or portion of the street serves 50 units or fewer. Determination of
units served shall be based on normal routes anticipated for traffic.
Along streets or portions of streets serving more than 50 dwelling
units, or constituting major routes to or around central facilities,
access from parking and service areas shall be so combined, limited,
located, designed and controlled as to channel traffic conveniently,
safely and in a manner that minimizes marginal traffic friction, and
direct vehicular access from individual dwellings shall generally
be prohibited.
(3)
Ways for pedestrians and cyclists; use by emergency, maintenance
or service vehicles.
(a)
Walkways shall form a logical, safe and convenient system for
pedestrian access to all dwellings, project facilities and principal
off-street pedestrian destinations. Maximum walking distance in the
open between dwelling units and related parking spaces, delivery areas
and trash and garbage storage areas intended for use of occupants
shall not exceed 100 feet.
(b)
Walkways to be used by substantial numbers of children as play
areas or routes to school, bus stops or other destinations shall be
so located and safeguarded as to minimize contracts with normal automotive
traffic. If an internal walkway system is provided, away from streets,
bicycle paths shall be incorporated in the walkway system. Street
crossings shall be held to a minimum on such walkways and shall be
located and designated to provide safety and shall be appropriately
marked and otherwise safeguarded. Ways for pedestrians and cyclists,
appropriately located, designed and constructed, may be combined with
other easements and used by emergency, maintenance or service vehicles
but shall not be used by other automotive traffic.