The following definitions are used in this article:
FOUNDATION SIDING
A fire- and weather-resistant, prefinished material surrounding
the entire perimeter of a home and completely enclosing a space between
the exterior wall of such home and the ground. Foundation siding shall
be properly vented, harmonious, and compatible with the house and
installed within 60 days from the date of placement on site.
MANUFACTURED HOME
Any of the following:
A.
A structure that is designed to be used as a dwelling with or
without a permanent foundation and that is certified by the federal
Department of Housing and Urban Development as complying with the
standards established under 42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 to 5425.
B.
A mobile home, unless a mobile home is specifically excluded
under the applicable statute.
MOBILE HOME
A vehicle manufactured or assembled before June 15, 1976,
designed to be towed as a single unit or in sections upon a highway
by a motor vehicle and equipped and used, or intended to be used,
primarily for human habitation, with walls of rigid uncollapsible
construction, which has an overall length in excess of 45 feet. “Mobile
home" includes the mobile home structure, its plumbing, heating, air
conditioning and electrical systems, and all appliances and all other
equipment carrying a manufacturer's warranty.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A parcel of land which has been developed for the placement
of mobile homes and is owned by an individual, a firm, trust, partnership,
public or private association, or corporation. Individual lots within
a mobile home park are rented to individual mobile home users.
MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISION
A land subdivision, as defined by Ch. 236 of the Wisconsin
Statutes and any Village land division ordinance, with lots intended
for the placement of individual mobile home units. Individual home
sites are in separate ownership as opposed to the rental arrangements
in mobile home parks.
PRIMARY EXPOSURE
Open areas adjacent to the front wall (or main entrance)
of a dwelling unit.
STATUTORY DEFINITIONS
In addition to the above definitions, definitions contained
in § 66.0435 of the Wisconsin Statutes shall also be applicable.
The following principal uses and structures are permitted within
R-MH Districts:
A. One-family detached mobile homes (residential mobile home). In mobile
home parks, recreational vehicles shall not be occupied as living
quarters and sales lots shall not be permitted, but dwellings may
be sold on lots they occupy in residential use.
B. Permitted accessory uses and structures. Uses and structures that
are customarily accessory and clearly incidental to permitted principal
uses and structures shall be permitted, except for those requiring
specific approval as provided below.
C. Rental. No mobile home site shall be rented for a period of less
than 30 days.
All mobile home parks and modifications of or additions or extensions
to existing parks under the R-MH District shall comply with the following:
A. Ch. HSS I77, Wis. Adm. Code, as now existing or hereafter amended,
is hereby made a part of this chapter and incorporated herein by reference
as if fully set forth, except that such regulations shall not be deemed
to modify any requirement of this chapter or any other applicable
law or ordinance of the state or Village.
B. Requirements.
(1) Each mobile home space shall be clearly defined or delineated and
shall have a minimum frontage of 50 feet and depth of 100 feet.
(2) 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.
(3) Each mobile home space shall provide not less than two spaces for
off-street parking of vehicles.
(4) 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.
(5) A service slab shall be provided for each mobile home space.
(6) 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, windbreak,
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
Village 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 movement 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. Spaces abut upon street; street widths.
(1) All mobile home spaces shall abut upon a street.
(2) Public and private streets shall have a right-of-way width of 66
feet and a dust-free surfaced width of not less than 32 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 governing body 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. The storage, collection and disposal of refuse in the mobile home
park shall be so conducted as to create no health hazards, rodent
harborage, insect breeding areas, accident or fire hazards or air
pollution. All refuse shall be stored in flytight, watertight, rodent-proof
containers. Containers shall be provided by the park management in
sufficient number and capacity to properly store all refuse.
J. All mobile home parks shall be provided with safe and convenient
vehicular access from abutting public streets or roads to each mobile
home space. Entrances to parks shall be designed to minimize congestion
and traffic hazards and allow free movement of traffic on adjacent
streets.
K. The park management shall keep the grounds, buildings and structures
free of insect and rodent harborage and infestation. Extermination
methods and other measures to control insects and rodents shall conform
with the requirements of the Village Board.
L. Parks shall be maintained free of accumulations of debris which may
provide rodent harborage or breeding places for flies, mosquitoes
and other pests.
M. The growth of brush, weeds, and grass shall be controlled to prevent
harborage of ticks, chiggers and other noxious insects. Parks shall
be so maintained as to prevent the growth of ragweed, poison ivy,
poison oak, poison sumac and other noxious weeds considered detrimental
to health. Open areas shall be maintained free of heavy undergrowth
of any description.
N. The park management shall not enter into any lease or otherwise permit
any mobile home occupancy in the park for any period of less than
30 days, excusable emergencies only accepted.
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 Village and the requirements of the State
Plumbing, Electrical and Building Codes and the regulations of the
State 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 within the R-MH District,
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 parks 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 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 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 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 planned developments, 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 pedestrian way 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 §
480-48 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. 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.
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 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 contracts 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.
In hardship cases, such as following a dwelling fire, the Village
Board may in its discretion grant a temporary permit, not to exceed
three 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 an additional
three-month period by the Village Board if the hardship continues
beyond the initial period.
Mobile homes may be located within the R-MH Zoned District,
provided the following requirements are met:
A. All zoning requirements including lot size and setback restrictions
shall be complied with;
B. That within one year of the date of the location of the mobile home
on any lot in the designated R-MH zoned subdivision, a garage structure/building
of at least 16 feet by 24 feet must be erected.
C. No mobile home shall be permitted within the designated R-MH zoned
subdivision unless it contains a minimum of 900 square feet of living
space.
D. All mobile homes located within the designated R-MH zoned subdivision
shall be situated on piers of concrete or other suitable material
which shall extend below the frost line in order to prevent shifting
of the mobile homes and shall be properly anchored to reduce risk
of wind damage.
E. All wheels shall be removed from all mobile homes when placed in
the designated R-MH zoned subdivision.
F. All mobile homes within the designated R-MH zoned subdivision shall
be skirted with appropriate material within 30 days of being situated
on a lot.
G. Any mobile home to be located in R-MH zoned subdivision must have
a value of at least $20,000.
H. Each mobile home that is placed in the Freeman Subdivision must have
a pitched roof and have vinyl siding or better on the sides of the
home.
I. Any person who shall locate a mobile home within the district and
who shall then fail to comply with the requirements of this section
may be required by action of the Village Board to remove said home
within 30 days after service of the notice of a demand to remove such
mobile home. The Village Board may take appropriate legal action to
enforce any decision made under this section.