This article shall regulate the parking, location, and maintaining
of all manufactured homes and manufactured home communities within
the Town of Pittsfield.
A. Manufactured homes and manufactured home communities shall be allowed
as conditional uses in the R-3 Multifamily Residential District.
B. Manufactured homes and parks shall be prohibited in all other zoning
districts within the Town of Pittsfield.
C. No manufactured home community space shall be rented or leased for
a period of less than 30 days.
The following definitions are in addition to Article
III to further clarify and explain word usage in conjunction with this article on manufactured home communities. Manufactured homes, manufactured home communities, and accessory use of a building shall apply, as defined in Article
III.
DEPENDENT UNIT
A manufactured home lacking a bath or shower and toilet facilities.
INDEPENDENT UNIT
A manufactured home that contains a kitchen, toilet facilities,
bath or shower, and fully equipped for living purposes.
PERSON
Shall be construed to include an individual, partnership,
firm, company, corporation, whether tenant, owner, lessee, licensee
of other agent, heir or assign.
SPACE
A plot of land, whether leased, sold, rented, or transferred,
which is intended for location of one manufactured home only.
UNIT
One manufactured home.
(Permits issued under this section are nontransferable and will
expire under change of occupancy.)
A. Upon a showing of a hardship and/or immediate necessity for use, the Town Zoning Administrator may issue special written permits allowing the location of a manufactured home outside of a manufactured home community for a period not to exceed 90 days for any one premises in any twelve-month period. The permit shall be granted only upon the written consent of the owner, legal agent of the owner, or the lessee of the location for which the permit is issued. Not more than one manufactured home shall be granted a permit to locate on any one premises outside a manufactured home community. Any violation of this subsection shall comply with the penalty as set forth in Article
XII, Administration and Enforcement, of this chapter.
B. Application for the permit shall be made to the Town Clerk and shall
be accompanied by an inspection fee as provided in the Town Fee Schedule and shall state the names and permanent addresses of the
occupants of the manufactured home, the license number of the manufactured
home and towing vehicle, place of last stay, intended purpose of stay
at requested location, whether any occupant is employed in state,
the exact location of premises, and the owner's and/or occupant's
sanitary facilities, and the permission of the occupant of the dwelling
house for their use, and a statement that all wastes from manufactured
home occupancy will be disposed of in a sanitary manner. Application
for location on a vacant lot or parcel of land shall be accompanied
by a statement of the nature and location of sanitary facilities,
which must include a safe water supply and toilet within 200 feet
of the proposed location of the manufactured home, and a statement
of permission from the owner for their use.
C. Manufactured homes and dwellings in conjunction with an operating farm in conformance with §
275-25 may be allowed as a conditional use to be used solely by resident owner or laborer actively engaged in the farming operation and must also apply for permit.
D. All occupied manufactured homes not located in a manufactured home
community shall be subject to the remaining regulations of this chapter.
The following regulations shall apply to all manufactured home
spaces that are sold, rented, leased, or transferred in an approved
manufactured home community:
A. The minimum size of a manufactured home community shall be 10 acres
in sewered areas.
B. Space size.
(1) Unsewered locations (hardship sites only), each manufactured home
space:
(a)
Area: 1 1/2 acres minimum.
(2) Sewered locations, each manufactured home space:
(a)
Area: 5,000 square feet minimum.
C. A concrete or bituminous pad shall be constructed on each manufactured
home space. The minimum size of this pad shall be 10 feet wide by
15 feet in length.
D. The minimum thickness of the surfacing shall be four inches. The
pad shall enclose all utility connections for the manufactured home.
E. Each manufactured home space shall provide a front yard setback of
10 feet and a rear yard setback of 20 feet. Side yards shall have
a minimum setback of five feet each.
F. The yard setbacks shall be seeded and landscaped and in no case shall
they be used for off-street parking or be occupied by a manufactured
home and/or its accessory buildings, except for the following conditions:
(1) Structures for utility outlets and garages serving more than one
manufactured home space may be located within the side or rear yard
setback of a common lot line.
(2) The hitch used for pulling the manufactured home may protrude into
the front yard setback.
The Town Board of Pittsfield shall have the authority to impose
a parking fee on manufactured homes within an approved manufactured
home community or outside of an approved park, as provided for in
Wisconsin Statutes. The parking fee shall be based on the following
regulations:
A. There is hereby imposed on each owner or operator of a manufactured
home community licensed hereunder a parking permit fee on each occupied
manufactured home unit which shall have been parked in such manufacture
home park. The parking fee shall also apply to manufactured home units
located outside of an approved manufactured home community. The amount
of the parking fee shall be determined by the Town Board of Pittsfield
and the local Town Assessor in accordance with § 66.0435,
Wis. Stats., and as amended. No manufactured home space shall be rented
for a period of less than 30 days.
B. The local Assessor shall determine the total fair market value of
each occupied manufactured home, minus the tax-exempt household furnishings,
and then equalized to the general level of assessment on other real
and personal property in the Town of Pittsfield.
C. The value of each occupied manufactured home thus determined shall
be multiplied by the tax rate established on the preceding May 1 assessment
of general property.
D. Total annual parking permit fee shall be divided by 12 to determine
monthly fee.
E. A new fee rate and a new valuation shall be established each January
and shall continue for that calendar year.
F. Said parking fee shall be collected by the owner or operator of the
manufactured home community and paid to the local taxing authority
on or before the 10th day of the month following the period for which
such parking permit is due.
G. No fee shall be imposed on a manufactured home from another state,
unless said unit has been placed within the Town of Pittsfield for
a sixty-day period.
H. The Town of Pittsfield may retain 10% of the parking fee for administration
costs.
I. The Town of Pittsfield shall pay to the school district in which
park is located, within 20 days after the end of each period, such
proportion of the remainder of the fees collected in the preceding
month as the ratio of the most recent property tax levy for school
purposes bears to the total tax levy for all purposes in the municipality.
Violation of this article shall result in a penalty imposed upon the violator as regulated in Article
XII, Administration and Enforcement, §
275-79, Violations and penalties.