All mobile home parks and modifications of or additions or extensions
to existing parks under the MH-1 District 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 article and incorporated herein by reference
as if fully set forth, except that such regulations shall not be deemed
to modify any requirement of this article or any other applicable
law or ordinance of the state or City.
B. Yards and parking.
(1) Each mobile home unit and any attachments thereto and any accessory
structure shall have a street yard of not less than 25 feet and side
and rear yards of not less than 10 feet.
(2) Each mobile home space shall provide not less than two spaces for
off-street parking of vehicles.
(3) Movable footing slabs of reinforced concrete or other suitable means
of supporting the mobile home shall be provided. Enclosing the foundation
is recommended for looks and insulating. Basements are not authorized.
(4) A service slab shall be provided for each mobile home space.
(5) Areas not hard surfaced shall be seeded or sodded to prevent the
blowing of sand or dirt. Landscaping is encouraged.
C. Attachments and accessory structures.
(1) Attachments and/or accessory structures shall be designed and constructed
so that they will blend in with and not detract from the appearance
of the mobile home units. No such attachments or accessory structures
shall be constructed without first securing a building permit from
the Building Inspector.
(2) Attachments to the mobile home unit, such as a sun porch, windbreaks,
etc., shall not be wider than eight feet or longer than 24 feet.
(3) Accessory structures, such as a carport, garage, storage shed, etc.,
shall not be wider than 12 feet or longer than 28 feet.
D. No mobile home park shall be laid out, constructed or operated without
City water supply and sanitary sewer service. All water or sanitary
sewerage facilities in any unit not connected with public water or
sewer systems by approved pipe connections shall be sealed and their
use is hereby declared unlawful.
E. All parks shall be furnished with lighting so spaced and equipped
with luminaires placed at such heights as will provide the following
average maintained levels of illumination for the safe movements of
pedestrians and vehicles at night:
(1) All parts of the park street systems: 0.6 footcandle, with a minimum
of 0.1 footcandle.
(2) Potentially hazardous locations, such as major park street intersections
and steps or stepped ramps, individually illuminated, with a minimum
of 0.3 footcandle.
F. Streets.
(1) All mobile home spaces shall abut upon a street.
(2) Public streets shall have right-of-way width of 66 feet and a dust-free
surfaced width of not less than 32 feet.
(3) Private street shall have a right-of-way width of 40 feet and a dust-free
surfaced width of not less than 24 feet.
G. All mobile home parks shall have a greenbelt or buffer strip not
less than 20 feet wide along all boundaries. Unless adequately screened
by existing vegetative cover, all mobile home parks 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 mobile
home park. Compliance with this requirement shall be made within five
years from the granting of the mobile home park developer's permit.
Permanent planting shall be grown and maintained at a height of not
less than six feet. Screening or planting requirements may be waived
or modified by the Common Council if it finds that the exterior architectural
appeal and functional plan of the park, when completed, will be materially
enhanced by modification or elimination of such screen planting requirements.
H. In all mobile home parks, there shall be one or more recreation areas
easily accessible to all park residents. No single recreation area
shall contain less than 2,500 square feet unless each mobile home
site is provided with a contiguous common recreational area not less
than 20 feet wide at the narrowest dimension. Recreation areas shall
be so located as to be free of traffic hazards and convenient to mobile
home spaces which they serve.
I. All mobile home parks shall be provided with safe and convenient
vehicular access from abutting public streets or roads to each mobile
home space. Entrance to parks shall be designed to minimize congestion
and traffic hazards and allow free movement of traffic on adjacent
streets.
All plumbing, electric, electrical, building and other work
on or at any mobile home park under this article 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
State Department of Safety and Professional Services. Licenses and
permits granted under this article grant no right to erect or repair
any structure, to do any plumbing work or to do any electric work.
No less than 10% of the total area of any mobile home park established
under these regulations shall be devoted to common recreational areas
and facilities, such as playgrounds, swimming pools, community buildings,
ways for pedestrians and cyclists away from streets and play areas
for small children or other recreational areas in block interiors.
At least one principal recreation and community center shall contain
not less than 5% of the total area of the park.
The following guides, standards and requirements shall apply
in site planning for mobile home parks:
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 park 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 park 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 mobile home parks, such crossings shall be safety
located, marked and controlled, and where such ways are exposed to
substantial vehicular traffic at edges of parks, 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 §
450-46 shall apply and are hereby adopted by reference. Where there is pedestrian or bicycle access from within the park 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. Ways for pedestrians and/or cyclists in exterior yards. In any exterior
yard, required or other, ways for pedestrians 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 park, nor occupy more land than is required
to provide access as indicated, nor create unnecessary fragmentation
of the park 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 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 vehicles
but shall not be used by other automotive traffic.