There shall be at least 20 spaces in each mobile home park and
no more than 200 spaces; all requirements of this article for the
issuance of a license shall be complied with prior to the issuance
of such license and proper rezoning as to each of the available spaces
designed into said mobile home park. All accommodations required by
this article shall be based upon the total park capacity according
to the accepted plans.
All plumbing, electric, electrical, building and other work
on or at any mobile home park under this chapter shall be in accordance
with the ordinances of the City and the requirements of the State
Plumbing, Electrical and Building Codes and the regulations of the
Department of Health 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.
In connection with mobile home parks, no sign intended to be
read from any public way adjoining the district shall be permitted
except:
A. No more than one identification sign, not exceeding 20 square feet
in area, for each principal entrance.
B. No more than one sign, not exceeding four square feet in area, advertising
property for sale, lease or rent, or indicating "Vacancy" or "No Vacancy,"
may be erected at each principal entrance.
C. In the case of new mobile home communities consisting in whole or
in part of mobile home subdivisions or condominiums, one sign, not
exceeding 20 square feet in area, may be erected for a period of not
more than two years at each principal entrance to advertise the sale
of lots or dwellings.
D. No source of illumination for any such signs shall be directly visible
from adjoining streets or residential property, and no such signs
shall be erected within five feet of any exterior property line.
The following guides, standards and requirements shall apply
in site planning for mobile 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 — automotive traffic, cyclists and pedestrians. At intersections of any streets, public or private, the provisions of §
430-52 shall apply and is hereby adopted by reference. Where there is pedestrian or bicycle access from within the community to a street at its edges by paths or across yards or other open space without a barrier to prevent access to the street, no material impediment to visibility more than 2.5 feet above ground level shall be created or maintained within 25 feet of said street unless at least 25 feet from said access measured at right angles to the path.
D. Exterior yards for mobile home communities; minimum requirements;
occupancy. The following requirements and limitations shall apply
to yards at the outer edges of mobile home communities:
(1)
Along public streets. Where mobile home parks adjoin public
streets along exterior boundaries, a yard at least 25 feet in minimum
dimensions shall be provided adjacent to such streets. Such yard may
be used to satisfy open space depth requirements for individual dwellings
but shall not contain carports, recreational shelters, storage structures
or any other structures generally prohibited in yards adjacent to
streets in residential districts. No direct vehicular access to individual
lots shall be permitted through such yards, and no group parking facilities
or active recreation areas shall be allowed therein.
(2)
At edges of mobile home park boundaries (other than at streets
or alleys). Where mobile home parks are so located that one or more
boundaries are at the edges of mobile home parks and adjoining neighboring
districts without an intervening street, alley or other permanent
open space at least 20 feet in width, an exterior yard at least 20
feet in minimum dimension shall be provided. Where the adjoining district
is residential, the same limitations on occupancy and use of such
yards shall apply as stated above concerning yards along public streets.
Where the adjoining district is nonresidential, such yards may be
used for group or individual parking, active recreation facilities
or carports, recreational shelters or storage structures.
E. 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 utilities
easements.
F. Yards, fences, walls or vegetative screening at edges of mobile home
communities. Along the edges of mobile home communities, walls or
vegetative screening shall be provided where needed to protect residents
from undesirable views, lighting, noise, or other off-site influences
or to protect occupants of adjoining residential districts from potentially
adverse influences within the mobile home community. In particular,
extensive off-street parking areas and service areas for loading and
unloading other than passenger vehicles, and for storage and collection
of trash and garbage, shall be screened.
G. 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 less. 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 contacts 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 vehicle
but shall not be used by other automotive traffic.
H. Utilities. The Common Council may require utility easements of widths
deemed adequate for the intended purpose on each side of all rear
lot lines and on side lot lines or across lots where necessary or
advisable for electric power and communication poles, wires, conduits;
storm and sanitary sewers; and gas, water and other utility lines.
All utilities shall be underground unless excepted by the Common Council.
I. Drainage easements. Where a mobile home development is traversed
by a watercourse, drainageway channel or stream, an adequate drainageway
or easement shall be provided as may be required by the Common Council.
The location, width, alignment and improvement of such drainageway
or easement shall be subject to the approval of the Common Council;
and parallel streets or parkways may be required in connection therewith.
Where necessary stormwater drainage shall be maintained by landscaped
open channels of adequate size and grade to hydraulically accommodate
maximum potential volumes of flow. These design details are subject
to review and approval by the Common Council.
J. Survey monuments. Survey monuments, street grading, surfacing, curb and gutter and sidewalks shall comply with the provisions of Chapter
415, Subdivision of Land.
K. Stormwater drainage facilities. The developer shall construct stormwater
drainage facilities, which may include curbs and gutters, catch basins
and inlets, storm sewers, road ditches and open channels, as may be
required. All such facilities are to be of adequate size and grade
to hydraulically accommodate maximum potential volumes of flow; the
type of facility required, the design criteria and the sizes and grades
to be determined by the City Engineer. Storm drainage facilities shall
be so designed as to present no hazard to life or property; and the
size, type, and installation of all stormwater drains and sewers proposed
to be constructed shall be in accordance with the plans and specifications
approved by the Board of Public Works and the City Engineer.
L. Street lamps. The developer shall install ornamental street lamps
along all streets proposed to be dedicated of a design compatible
with the neighborhood and type of development proposed. Such lamps
shall be placed at each street intersection and at such interior block
spacing as may be required by the Plan Commission and Common Council.
M. Street trees. The developer shall plant at least one tree of a species
acceptable to the City and of at least six feet in height for each
50 feet of frontage on all streets proposed to be dedicated. The required
trees shall be planted in accordance with plans and specifications
approved by the Common Council.
N. Erosion control. The developer shall cause all grading, excavations,
open cuts, side slopes, and other land surface disturbances to be
mulched, seeded, sodded or otherwise protected so that erosion, siltation,
sedimentation and washing are prevented to City standards.
O. Partition fences. When the land included in the mobile home park
abuts upon or is adjacent to land used for farming or grazing purposes,
the developer shall erect, keep, and maintain partition fences, satisfying
the requirements of the Wisconsin statutes for a legal and sufficient
fence, between such land and the adjacent land. A covenant binding
the developer, its grantees, heirs, successors, and assigns to erect
and maintain such fences, without cost to the adjoining property owners,
so long as the land is used for farming or grazing purposes shall
be included upon the mobile home development map.
P. Street name signs and posts. The developer shall install or cause
to be installed street name signs at all street intersections. Plans
and specifications for the street name signs and posts shall be approved
by the Common Council.
In hardship cases, the Common Council may in its discretion
grant a temporary permit, not to exceed six months; said permit to
clearly state the expiration date thereon, provided sanitation rules
as set forth in this article are complied with and provided that consent
of all adjacent owners or occupiers of land is obtained. The temporary
permit may be renewed for additional six month periods by the Common
Council if the hardship continues beyond the licensed period.
[Adopted as Title 7, Ch. 5, of the City Code]
A. State
statute adopted. The provisions of § 66.0435, Wis. Stats.,
and the definitions therein are hereby adopted by reference.
B. Applicability.
This chapter shall apply only to mobile homes manufactured prior to
June 15, 1976. All such types of homes manufactured after June 15,
1976 are classified as "manufactured homes" and are not subject to
the provisions of this chapter.
C. Monthly
permit fee. There is hereby imposed on each occupied, nonexempt mobile
home located in the City a monthly permit fee as determined in accordance
with § 66.0435, Wis. Stats. Such fees shall be paid to the
City Administrator/Clerk-Treasurer on or before the 10th day of the
month following the month for which such fees are due.
D. License required. No person shall establish or operate upon property owned or controlled by him/her within the City a mobile home park without having first secured a license therefor from the City Administrator/Clerk-Treasurer. The application for such license shall be accompanied by the fee prescribed in Chapter
182, Fees. The license shall expire one year from the date of issuance. Such parks shall comply with the applicable provisions of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
E. Information
to be furnished. Licensees of mobile home parks and owners of land
on which are parked any occupied, nonexempt mobile homes shall furnish
information to the City Administrator/Clerk-Treasurer and City Assessor
on such homes added to their park or land within five days after arrival
of such home on forms furnished by the City Administrator/Clerk-Treasurer
in accordance with § 66.0435, Wis. Stats.
F. Mobile homes outside mobile home parks. Occupants or owners of nonexempt mobile homes parked outside of a mobile home park shall remit such fees directly to the City Administrator/Clerk-Treasurer as provided in Subsection
C. It shall be the full and complete responsibility of the licensee of a mobile home park to collect such fees from each occupied, nonexempt mobile home therein and to remit such fees to the City Administrator/Clerk-Treasurer as provided in Subsection
C.
G. Parking
outside licensed mobile home parks restricted.
(1) No
person shall park, locate or place any mobile home outside of a licensed
mobile home park in the City, except that the parking of only one
unoccupied mobile home in an accessory private garage building or
in a rear yard shall be permitted provided no living quarters shall
be maintained or business practiced in such mobile home.
(2) No
person shall stop, stand or park a mobile home on any street, alley
or highway within the City in violation of Chs. 340 to 348, Wis. Stats.,
or the traffic ordinances and regulations of the City.
H. Mobile
home occupancy permits.
(1) Mobile
homes legally located and occupied on premises outside a licensed
mobile home park prior to the enactment of this chapter may be continued
in such location, provided that the owner of the premises on which
such unit is located shall apply to the City Administrator/Clerk-Treasurer
within 60 days after the effective date of this chapter for a use
permit showing the date on which such use and occupancy commenced,
the names of the owner and occupants and that such use and occupancy
is otherwise in conformity with the applicable laws and regulations
of the state and City. Such nonconforming use shall be automatically
terminated upon a discontinuance for any reason for 12 consecutive
months.
(2) Such
mobile homes legally located and occupied on premises outside of a
mobile home park prior to September 13, 1983, may be replaced with
another mobile home at that location, provided, in the opinion of
the Zoning Administrator, such replacement would enhance the aesthetic
beauty and value of the premises and that such use and occupancy is
otherwise in conformity with the applicable laws, ordinances and regulations
of the state and City.