At the time of application for a rezoning to the R-5 Mobile Home District and application for a mobile home park license under Chapter 321, Mobile Homes, of the Code of the City of Brodhead, the applicant shall submit a site plan to the Building Inspector containing the following:
A.
The name and address of all owners and developers of the proposed
mobile home park.
B.
The legal description and lot size, in acres, of the proposed mobile
home park.
C.
The location and size of all mobile home spaces, storage areas, recreation
areas and facilities, landscaping, existing tree growth, water areas,
roadways, sidewalks and parking sites.
D.
Detailed landscaping plans and specifications.
E.
Plans for sanitary sewage disposal, surface drainage, water system,
electrical service, gas service, streetlighting and topography diagrams.
F.
Location and size of all public roadways abutting the mobile home
park and all street and sidewalk accesses from such street and sidewalk
to the mobile home park.
G.
Preliminary road construction plans, specifications and elevations.
H.
Preliminary floor plans and elevation for all structures.
I.
Description and method of disposing of garbage and refuse.
J.
Detailed description of proposed maintenance procedure and grounds
supervision.
K.
Staging and timing of construction program, whether or not the entire
area will be developed at one time or in stages.
L.
Such other reasonable information as shall be required by the Building
Inspector.
A.
Minimum area of mobile home park development. Each mobile home park
development shall have a minimum area of five acres.
B.
Mobile home space. Each mobile home space shall have at least 5,000
square feet of land area for the exclusive use of the residents of
the mobile home located on the space, with a minimum width of 50 feet
and a minimum depth of 100 feet. The frontage on the approved roadway
and the corner of each space shall be marked, and each lot shall be
numbered.
C.
Yard requirements. Every mobile home park development shall have
minimum front, side, and rear yard setbacks of 40 feet. Mobile homes
shall not be parked closer than 10 feet from the roadway serving such
units. There shall be an open space of at least 20 feet between the
sides of adjacent mobile homes.
D.
Height requirements. No mobile home or building shall exceed one
story or 15 feet in height.
E.
Parking requirements. The following are minimum parking requirements
for mobile home parks:
(1)
Each mobile home space shall have off-street parking space for two
automobiles.
(2)
Each mobile home park shall maintain a hard-surfaced off-street parking
lot for guests of occupants of a size equivalent to one space for
each five mobile home spaces.
(3)
Access drives off roads to all parking spaces and mobile home spaces
shall be hard-surfaced in bituminous concrete or portland cement concrete
designed to accommodate normal traffic.
(4)
Automobiles shall not be parked nearer than five feet from any side
lot line unless combined with a contiguous parking area.
F.
Utilities. The following minimum requirements for utilities shall
be maintained:
(1)
There shall be no obstructions impeding the inspection of plumbing,
electrical facilities, utilities or other related equipment.
(2)
Garbage, waste and trash disposal plans must be approved by the Building
Inspector and must conform to all state and local health and pollution
control regulations. Every mobile home unit shall be provided with
a substantial flytight, watertight metal garbage depository from which
contents shall be removed and disposed of in a sanitary manner by
the mobile home park custodian at least twice weekly between May 1
and October 15, and otherwise weekly.
(3)
The owner of a mobile home park shall pay all required sewer and
utility connection fees to the Clerk-Treasurer.
(4)
Every mobile home space shall be furnished with an electric service
outlet. Such outlet shall be equipped with an externally operating
switch or fuse on not less than 30 amperes capacity, and a heavy-duty
outlet receptacle. Electric outlets shall be weatherproofed, and all
power lines and telephone lines shall be underground.
(5)
Every mobile home park must have City sewer and water service provided
to each mobile home unit in the park. No dependent mobile homes shall
be permitted in any mobile home park to be located within the City.
A dependent mobile home is defined as one not equipped with internal
bathroom or shower and toilet facilities.
(6)
Individual water service connections provided for direct use of a
mobile home unit shall be constructed so that they will not be damaged
by the parking of such units. Such system shall be adequate to provide
20 pounds per square inch and capable of furnishing a minimum of 125
gallons per day per space. No wells or points will be permitted in
a mobile home park in the City limits.
(7)
Every lot space designed to serve mobile home units shall be provided
with sewer connections which shall comply with the State Plumbing
Code and the City of Brodhead Sanitary Code. The sewer connections
shall be provided with suitable fittings so that watertight connections
can be made. Such connections shall be so constructed so that they
can be closed when not connected and trapped in such a manner as to
be maintained in an odor-free condition.
G.
Internal streets, sidewalks and lighting. All internal streets, sidewalks
and lighting shall meet the following requirements:
(1)
Streets shall be hard-surfaced with bituminous concrete or portland
cement concrete to accommodate the structural requirements in the
City streets as approved by the Common Council.
(2)
Every mobile home space shall abut on an internal street in the park.
All streets shall be developed with a roadbed of not less than 30
feet and a street surface of not less than 18 feet. Ancillary parking
on one side may be allowed except at parking area entrances if the
street is at least 28 feet wide.
(3)
A thirty-inch portland cement concrete sidewalk shall be built and
maintained by the owner providing access to all recreational areas,
common use buildings and storage areas and to the public street access.
(4)
Artificial lights shall be maintained during all hours of darkness
in all buildings provided for common facilities for occupants'
use. The mobile home park grounds, street and pedestrian areas shall
be lighted from sunset to sunrise in accordance with a lighting plan
approved by the Common Council.
H.
Service buildings. Floors of service buildings shall be concrete,
tile or similar material impervious to water and easily cleaned and
pitched to a floor drain. All liquid wastes from service buildings
shall be discharged into a sewer intended for and connected with the
public sewer system.
I.
Recreation areas. All mobile home parks shall have one or more recreational
areas which shall be easily accessible to all park residents. Recreational
areas shall be so located as to be free of traffic hazards and shall,
where the topography permits, be centrally located. The size of such
recreational areas shall be a minimum of 10% of the land area of the
mobile home park. All equipment installed in such areas shall be owned
and maintained by the owner or operator of the mobile home park at
his expense.
J.
Landscaping. The following minimum landscaping requirements shall
be maintained in all mobile home parks:
(1)
Each space shall be properly landscaped with at least one tree. All
yards shall be sodded or planted in grass. There shall be a minimum
of 20 trees per gross acre in all areas of a mobile home park. Tree,
grass, and landscape materials shall be properly maintained and replaced
to conform to the approved landscape plans and specifications.
(2)
A visual screen consisting of a compact hedge, redwood fence, coniferous
trees or other approved landscape materials or a screen fencing approved
by the Building Inspector shall be installed and maintained around
the periphery of the mobile home park to substantially inhibit the
eye-level vision from the exterior when adjacent to any R-1, R-2,
R-3 or R-4 Residential District and shall be maintained free of rubbish,
debris, weeds and paper.
(3)
All areas shall be landscaped, and the landscape plans shall be approved
by the Building Inspector.
All mobile homes shall be placed and leveled on stands consisting
of a sixteen-inch by sixteen-inch by four-inch-deep square solid base,
minimum, with a double tier of alternately crossed eight-inch block
ascending; no I-beam or any portion of the mobile home frame shall
rest directly on the concrete block. Wood shimming shall be used.
No second or medium grade of concrete block may be used, and all block
must be installed with the hollow core in a vertical position. These
stands shall be placed with a minimum spacing of eight feet.
A.
Tie-downs and anchors are required on all mobile homes. Straps and
anchoring equipment shall be capable of resisting an allowable working
load of not less than 3,150 pounds and capable of withstanding a 50%
overload (4,750 pounds) without failure. [Example: Type I Finish B,
Grade I steel strapping, 1 1/4 inch wide and 0.035 inch thick
conforming with federal specifications. Q-QS781-H is recommended to
meet the above load requirements.] Tie-downs and anchors shall be
installed as follows:
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Number of Frame Ties Required
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Mobile Home Size
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Number of Over-the-Roof Ties Required
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2' Pier
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3' Pier
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4' Pier
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44 x 12
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2
|
4
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5
|
5
|
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52 x 12
|
2
|
5
|
5
|
6
|
|
54 x 12
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2
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
|
60 x 12
|
2
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
|
65 x 12
|
2
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
|
70 x 12
|
2
|
6
|
7
|
9
|
|
74 x 12
|
2
|
6
|
8
|
9
|
|
54 x 14
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2
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
|
60 x 14
|
2
|
5
|
5
|
6
|
|
65 x 14
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2
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
|
70 x 14
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2
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
|
76 x 14
|
2
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
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80 x 14
|
2
|
7
|
7
|
8
|
B.
All mobile home units have skirts around the entire mobile home made
of plastic, fiberglass, or other comparable noncombustible material
approved by the Building Inspector and shall be of a permanent color
or painted to match the appropriate mobile home so as to enhance the
general appearance thereof. Any storage building in a mobile home
park shall be anchored.
The owner of a mobile home park shall keep a registration list
available to the City or its agents for inspection at reasonable times.
All mobile homes shall comply with state and City fire, health and
building regulations. Before a mobile home unit may be occupied, the
owner must secure the inspection and approval of the Building Inspector
regarding compliance with such regulations.
A.
Requirement. No person shall operate or maintain or offer for public
use within the City limits any mobile home park without first applying
for and receiving from the City a license so to do or without complying
with the regulations contained in this chapter or such regulations
as may hereafter be adopted.
B.
Park license fee; term. The application for a mobile park license
or renewal thereof shall be filed with the City Clerk-Treasurer and
shall be accompanied by an annual license fee as set by resolution
of the Common Council. All such licenses are to expire on the 30th
day of June of each year. A fee as set by resolution of the Common
Council shall be paid for each transfer of a license upon the approval
and consent of the Common Council and signed by the Mayor.[1]
C.
Contents of application for park license.
(1)
Every applicant for a license to operate or maintain a mobile home
park shall file with the City Clerk-Treasurer a written application
stating the name and address of the applicant and the location of
the mobile home park. The applicant shall file with his application
two sketches or plot drawings to scale showing the exact dimensions
and location of the boundaries of the mobile home park. Upon approval
of the Council, one plan will be signed by the Mayor and stamped by
the Building Inspector and returned with the license permit. The other
will be held by the Building Inspector. The application shall also
state who is the owner of the land on which the mobile home park is
located or is to be located, and if the application is not made by
the owner of the land, then a description of or copy of the lease
showing the term of the lease shall be filed.
(2)
The sketch shall also show the location and proposed arrangement
of the mobile homes to be placed in said park and also the location
of streets, toilets, showers or bath and all other sanitary facilities.
The plat shall be considered as an integral part of the application.
(3)
The application shall also describe the actual or proposed sanitary
and storm sewer facilities of the mobile home park and state the maximum
number of mobile homes that the mobile home park will accommodate.
D.
Inspection of parks. Before any mobile park license shall be granted,
the Building Inspector, the Chief of Police, Health Officer, Mayor
and Council shall make or cause to be made an inspection of the premises
for which a license has been applied in order to determine whether
the requirements of this chapter have or will be met and the mobile
home park will be safe, sanitary and sufficiently attractive so as
not to depreciate real estate values in the area. These officials
shall have the right and they are hereby empowered to enter upon the
premises of any mobile home park operated within the City of Brodhead
to inspect the same and all accommodations connected therewith. In
applying for a license, express consent is given by the applicant
to any such inspection.
E.
Number of licenses. Not more than one mobile home park license shall
be issued for each 2,000 population of the City of Brodhead or fraction
thereof as determined by the last official United States census.
F.
Revocation of license. The mobile home park license is subject to
revocation by the Common Council, all as provided in § 66.0435(2)(d),
Wis. Stats.
