This article applies to the use of land for manufactured home parks. All manufactured home parks shall be subject to the requirements and standards of this article. No manufactured home shall be placed within the Town outside of a manufactured home park except as provided for in §
190-101 below.
Manufactured home parks in existence on the date of enactment
of this article may continue in operation. Any modifications to such
existing manufactured home parks shall comply with the review and
design standards of this article.
If the Code Enforcement Officer, or any authorized representative
of the Town of Greenwich finds that any mobile or manufactured home
outside a manufactured home park is not being maintained in a clean
and sanitary condition or is not being maintained in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter, such facts shall thereupon be reported
to the Town Board, and the Town Board may direct the Code Enforcement
Officer to serve an order in writing upon the owner of the mobile
or manufactured home, or the owner of the premises on which it is
located, or any or all thereof, directing that the condition therein
specified be remedied within five days after the date of service of
such order. If such conditions are not corrected after the expiration
of said five-day period, the Town Board may cause a notice in writing
to be served upon the person or persons upon whom such order was served
requiring the appearance of the person so served before the Town Board
at a time to be specified in such notice and show cause why the manufactured
or mobile home should not be brought into a clean and sanitary condition.
The Town Board may, after a hearing at which testimony of witnesses
may be taken and the person or persons so served shall be heard, cause
the manufactured or mobile home to be brought into a clean and sanitary
condition. If the Town Board finds that the manufactured home is not
being maintained in a clean and sanitary condition or if it finds
that any provision of this chapter has been violated or that any fee
provided in this chapter has not been paid or for any other sufficient
cause, it may require or cause the mobile or manufactured home to
be removed forthwith from the premises.
The issuance of any approval pursuant to the provisions of this
article shall not be deemed to waive compliance by any person with
any statute of the State of New York or law, ordinance or health regulation
of the Town of Greenwich of the County of Washington.
None of the provisions of this article shall be applicable to
the following:
A. The storage or garaging of travel trailers, not being used for living
or sleeping purposes, within a building or structure or to the storage
of one unregistered, unoccupied travel trailer on premises occupied
as the principal residence of the owner of such travel trailer, or
to the storage of one unoccupied, registered travel trailer on any
property owned by the owner of the travel trailer or for which permission
for placement of the travel trailer has been granted.
B. A manufactured home, construction trailer or travel trailer located
on the site of a construction project, survey project or other similar
work project and which is used solely as a field office or work or
tool house in connection with such project, provided that such manufactured
home, construction trailer or travel trailer complies with all setback
requirements and is removed from such site within 30 days after the
completion of such project.
C. Manufactured homes with a living space of at least 1,000 square feet
and which are a minimum of 24 body feet wide for their entire length
and a minimum of 40 body feet in length and which are placed on either
(1) a concrete slab with footings below the frost line in accordance
with the New York State Building Code and which have a cemented-together
permanent concrete block or poured cement enclosure between the top
of the slab and the bottom of the manufactured home; or (2) a full
basement foundation of cemented-together permanent concrete block
or poured concrete walls which rise to the bottom of the manufactured
home. Any such manufactured home shall be a new manufactured home,
shall have never before been used as a residence, and shall have been
built within the five years preceding its placement on the land.
D. Farm worker housing. Any manufactured home used for farm worker housing
which is not occupied by an employee of the farm for a period of more
than one year shall be removed within a thirty-day period.
E. Any owner of a residence which has been destroyed by fire, flood or other natural disaster may make application to the Town Board for a permit for the temporary placement of a manufactured home or travel trailer to be used as shelter until the residence is rebuilt. Such permit shall be for a period of six months, renewable for up to another six months as is deemed necessary by the Town Board upon good cause shown. Permits shall be granted only upon a showing of hardship. Hardship may be demonstrated by showing that temporary use of the manufactured home or travel trailer is the most cost-effective method, or that use of the manufactured home or travel trailer will avoid the dislocation of school-age children to another school district, or for other good cause shown. The manufactured home or travel trailer shall conform to all applicable building and sanitation codes when installed on the plot. Failure to remove a manufactured home or travel trailer upon expiration of a permit shall be a violation of this chapter and the penalty provisions of §
190-92 shall apply.