The following definitions are used in this chapter:
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
A structure certified and labeled as a manufactured home
under 42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 through 5426, which, when placed
on the site:
A.
Is set on an enclosed continuous foundation in accordance with
Ch. SPS 321, Subchs. III, IV, and V, Wis. Adm. Code, or is set on
a comparable enclosed continuous foundation system approved by the
Building Inspector, who may require a plan for such foundation to
be certified by a registered architect or engineer to ensure proper
support for such structure;
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B.
Is installed in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions;
C.
Is properly connected to utilities; and
D.
Meets other applicable standards of this chapter.
MOBILE HOME COMMUNITIES (PARKS)
Mobile home communities/parks are distinguished from subdivisions
lacking common facilities and continuing management services. The
latter would be controlled by general subdivision regulations, which
would apply also to mobile home subdivisions without common open space
or continuing management.
MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISION
A parcel of land platted for subdivision according to all
requirements of the Comprehensive Plan, designed or intended for lots
to be conveyed by deed to individual owners for residential occupancy
primarily by mobile homes.
PRIMARY EXPOSURE
Open areas adjacent to the front wall (or main entrance)
of a dwelling unit.
RESIDENTIAL MOBILE HOME
A single-family dwelling built on or after October 1, 1974,
in accordance with the ANSI Code (American National Standards Institute)
or in accordance with the HUD Code (Housing and Urban Development),
both of which govern the heating and cooling systems, electrical systems,
fire safety, body and frame construction, thermal protections and
plumbing systems. All said homes shall bear the proper approved Wisconsin
insignia as required by the Wisconsin Administrative Code, §§ SPS
320.12 through 320.17. "Mobile home" also means a dwelling which is,
or was as originally constructed, designed to be transported by any
motor vehicle upon a public highway and designed, equipped and used
primarily for sleeping, eating and living quarters, or is intended
to be so used; and includes any additions, attachments, annexes, foundations
and appurtenances, except that a mobile home is not deemed a mobile
home if the assessable value of such additions, attachments, annexes,
foundations and appurtenances equals or exceed 50% of the assessable
value of the mobile home. The term "mobile home" shall not include
a factory-built structure meeting the following requirements:
A.
Intended to be set on a foundation by virtue of its construction.
B.
Which is normally transported only once, from the factory to
the construction site.
C.
Which, from its very beginning, is designed to be permanently
affixed to land.
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
authorized mobile home parks:
A. One-family detached mobile homes (residential mobile home). In mobile
home communities, 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.
All mobile home parks and modifications of or additions or extensions
to existing parks shall comply with the following:
A. Section 710.15, Wis. Stats., 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 Town.
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B. Mobile home spaces shall be a minimum of 50 feet wide and 100 feet
in depth, have a setback of 20 feet from all street rights-of-way,
and have a side yard setback of eight feet, except that driveways
may extend to within four feet of a property line. Accessory structures,
such as awnings, cabanas, storage cabinets, carports, windbreaks or
attached porches shall be considered part of the unit for purposes
of determining compliance with this provision. No mobile home site
shall be rented for a period of less than 30 days. There shall be
two surfaced automobile parking spaces for each mobile home. Unless
adequately screened by existing vegetative cover, a mobile park shall
be screened around its outer perimeter by a planting of hedges or
trees, capable of reaching a height of 15 feet or more, the individual
trees to be such a number and so arranged that within 10 years they
will have formed a screen equivalent in opacity to a solid fence or
wall. Such permanent planting shall be grown or maintained to a height
of not less than 15 feet when mature.
C. Adequate provision shall be made for the disposal of solid and liquid
wastes in a manner approved by the Town Board. Open burning of waste
or refuse is prohibited.
D. All television cable systems, electrical and telephone distribution
lines and oil or gas piping serving the park or spaces therein shall
be installed underground. Distribution systems shall be new and all
parts and installations shall comply with all applicable federal,
state and local codes.
E. Each space shall be provided with direct electrical service of not
less than 100 amperes for 220-volt service.
F. A minimum of two off-street parking spaces surfaced with bituminous
concrete or similar material capable of carrying a wheel load of 4,000
pounds shall be provided for each mobile home space.
G. Condition of soil, ground water level, drainage and topography shall
not create hazards to the property, health or safety of occupants
of mobile home spaces or living units. The site shall not be exposed
to objectionable smoke, noise, odors or other adverse influences,
and no portion subject to unpredictable and/or sudden flooding, subsidence
or erosion shall be used for any purpose which would expose persons
or property within or without the park to hazards.
H. Exposed ground surfaces in all parts of every mobile home park shall
be paved or covered with stone screenings or other solid material
or protected with a vegetative growth that is capable of preventing
soil erosion and eliminating objectionable dust.
I. The ground surface in all parts of every mobile home park shall be
graded and equipped to drain all surface water in a safe, sanitary
and efficient manner.
J. All parks shall be furnished with individual outdoor lot lighting
of 25 to 60 watts so spaced and equipped with luminaries placed for
the safe movement of pedestrians and vehicles at night.
K. All mobile home spaces shall abut upon a street. All streets shall
be provided with a smooth, hard and dense surface which shall be well
drained under normal use and weather conditions for the area. Pavement
edges shall be curbed and protected to prevent raveling of the wearing
surface and shifting of the pavement base. Grades of streets shall
be sufficient to insure adequate surface drainage but not more than
8%, provided a maximum grade of 12% may be used if approved by the
Town Board, as safe and designed to avoid traffic hazards. Streets
shall be at approximately right angles within 100 feet of an intersection.
Intersections of more than two streets at one point shall not be allowed.
A distance of at least 150 feet shall be maintained between center
lines of offset intersecting streets.
L. All parks shall be provided with pedestrian walks between individual
mobile homes, park streets and community facilities of not less than
three feet in width. Grade and surfacing of walks shall be approved
by the Town Board as safe and comparable to sidewalks in other areas
of the municipality subject to similar usage, except, that as an alternative,
inverted curbing may be used which provides approximately three feet
of concrete walking area adjacent to the curbline.
M. All mobile home parks shall have a greenbelt or buffer strip not
less than 10 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.
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.
N. Mobile home park operators shall, at the time of approval, pay the park development fees required for conventional subdivisions in Chapter
490, Subdivision of Land, of the Code of the Town of Koshkonong.
O. Single-family nondependent mobile homes and approved accessory structures
included in the original plans and specifications or revisions thereof,
parks, playgrounds, open space, off-street parking lots, one park
office and service buildings for exclusive use of park residents shall
be the only permitted uses in mobile home parks, provided the Town
Board may approve the following uses when designed and limited to
exclusive use of park residents:
(2) Clubhouses and facilities for private, social or recreation clubs.
P. No signs shall be erected in mobile home parks unless approved by
the Town Board.
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Q. 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.
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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 Town and the requirements of the State
Plumbing, Electrical and Building Codes and the regulations of the
Department of Safety and Professional Services, Regulation of Industry,
Buildings and Safety. 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.
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 safely 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 pedestrian
way system that street crossings are combined.
C. 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.
D. 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 vehicle
but shall not be used by other automotive traffic.
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Violations of this chapter shall be subject to the penalty provided in §
1-3, General penalty.