All mobile home parks and modifications of or additions or extensions
to existing parks shall comply with the following:
A. Chapter SPS 326, Manufactured Home Communities, 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. 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 10 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. 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. No mobile home park shall be laid out, constructed or operated without
Village sanitary sewer service.
D. All liquid wastes originating at units or service or other buildings
shall be discharged into a sewerage system extended from and connected
with the public sewerage system. Such systems shall comply with all
provisions of the state code and Village ordinances relating to plumbing
and sanitation. Each individual space shall be provided with a three-inch
watertight sewer connection protected from damage by heaving and thawing
or parking of the unit and located within the rear 1/3 of the stand,
with a continuous grade which is not subject to surface drainage,
so constructed that it can be closed when not in use and trapped in
such a manner that it can be kept odor free.
E. Adequate provision shall be made for the disposal of solid and liquid
wastes in a manner approved by the Village Board. Open burning of
waste or refuse is prohibited.
F. 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.
G. Each space shall be provided with direct electrical service of not
less than 100 amperes for 220 volt service.
H. 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.
I. Condition of soil, groundwater 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.
J. 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.
K. 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.
L. All parks shall be furnished with individual outdoor lot lighting
of 25 to 60 watts so spaced and equipped with luminaires placed for
the safe movement of pedestrians and vehicles at night.
M. 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 ensure adequate surface drainage but not more than
8%, provided that a maximum grade of 12% may be used if approved by
the Village 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.
N. 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 Village 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.
O. 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.
P. Mobile home park operators shall, at the time of approval, pay the park development fees required for conventional subdivisions in Chapter
477, Subdivision of Land, of this Code.
Q. 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 that the
Village 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.
R. No signs shall be erected in mobile home parks.
S. 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.
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 Safety and Professional 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.
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 mobile
home park 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 safety 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 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 §
485-43 shall apply and are hereby adopted by reference.
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 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 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 vehicle
but shall not be used by other automotive traffic.