Reference: Table 320-503-1; Table 320-505-1; Table 320-509-1;
Table 320-509-2; Table 320-509-3.[1]
A.
MANUFACTURED HOME
MOBILE HOME
MOBILE/MANUFACTURED HOME PARK
MOBILE/MANUFACTURED HOME SITE
MOBILE/MANUFACTURED HOME SUBDIVISION
NONCONFORMITIES
Definitions.
Per § 101.91(2), Wis. Stats., shall be defined
as a structure designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a
permanent foundation and 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.
Per § 101.91(10), Wis. Stats., shall be defined
as 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,
and has an overall length in excess of 45 feet. Mobile home includes
the mobile home structure, and its plumbing, heating, air-conditioning,
electrical systems, and all appliances and all other equipment carrying
a manufacturer's warranty.
Premises designed and maintained for the location of two
or more mobile/manufactured homes under a continuing local general
management, and including special facilities for common use by the
occupants, such as open space areas and recreational areas and buildings.
A site on a parcel or lot within a mobile/manufactured home
park, designated for the accommodation of not more than one mobile/manufactured
home.
Premises where more than two mobile/manufactured homes are
located for nontransient living purposes and where lots are set aside
and offered for sale for use as mobile/manufactured homes for living
purposes.
A manufactured home community licensed under § 101.935,
Wis. Stats., that is a legal nonconforming use continues to be a legal
nonconforming use notwithstanding the occurrence of any of the following
activities within the community:
B.
Parking outside licensed manufactured home parks.
(1)
Restricted. No mobile/manufactured home shall be permitted to
be located, parked, or occupied in the Village unless the same is
in a licensed mobile/manufactured home park, except those mobile/manufactured
homes occupied outside of a mobile/manufactured home park on the effective
date of this chapter.
(2)
Exceptions.
(a)
One- and two-family modular homes that meet the applicable one-and-two-family standards set forth in Chapter 101, Wis. Stats., and the requirements of this chapter are exempt.
(b)
A mobile/manufactured home may be permitted for temporary use
solely as a field office for construction activities as long as a
building or erosion control permit has been issued, and shall be removed
upon construction completion.
C.
Park license required. No person shall establish or operate upon
property owned or controlled by him within Greenville a mobile/manufactured
home park without having first secured a license from the Board. The
application for such a license shall be made to the Clerk and shall
be accompanied by a fee as set by the Board for each space in the
existing or proposed park. Such park shall comply with Chapter SPS
326, Wis. Adm. Code, which is hereby adopted by reference.
D.
Application.
(1)
A site plan application shall be submitted in compliance with
this chapter.
(2)
Before approval of any site, a public hearing shall be held,
and the Planning Commission shall view the proposed site and shall
consider such evidence as may be presented at the hearing bearing
upon the general purpose and intent of this article to promote the
public health, safety, and general welfare and the specific purpose
of the chapter to prevent the overcrowding of land and the development
of housing blight.
E.
Additions to park. Licensees of mobile/manufactured home parks shall
furnish information to the Clerk on such homes added to the park within
five days after arrival on forms furnished by the Clerk.
F.
Parking permit fees. There is imposed on each mobile/manufactured home located in Greenville a parking permit fee, such amount to be determined in accordance with § 66.0435, Wis. Stats. The fee shall be paid to the Treasurer on or before the 10th day of the month following the month for which they are due. It shall be the full and complete responsibility of a licensee of a mobile/manufactured home park to collect such fees from each mobile/manufactured home therein and to remit such fees to the Treasurer. Failure to do so is to be treated like a default in the payment of personal property taxes and subject to all procedures and penalties applicable under Chapters 70 and 74, Wis. Stats.
G.
Mobile/manufactured home park requirements.
(1)
The following park requirements shall be met:
(a)
A minimum of five acres.
(b)
A minimum setback of 100 feet on all sides.
(c)
Private roads shall be hard-surfaced and no less than 24 feet
wide and a right-of-way of 40 feet wide serving all mobile/manufactured
home spaces. This shall be either concrete or bituminous hard-surfaced.
Public streets shall have a right-of-way of 66 feet and a hard-surfaced
road no less than 24 feet.
(d)
Electricity, cable television, natural gas, public sewer, and
water shall serve all mobile/manufactured home spaces.
(e)
Two parking spaces for each mobile/manufactured home, which
shall be hard-surfaced with concrete or bituminous pavement.
(f)
Laundry hookups will be required to be made available in each
mobile/manufactured home unit.
(g)
An on-site manager's office.
(h)
Each mobile/manufactured home space shall be clearly defined
or delineated and shall have a minimum frontage of 50 feet and a depth
of 100 feet.
(i)
Movable footing slabs of reinforced concrete or other suitable
means of supporting the mobile/manufactured homes shall be provided.
Enclosing the foundation is recommended for appearance and insulating.
Basements are not authorized.
(j)
A service slab shall be provided for each mobile/manufactured
home site.
(k)
Attachments and/or necessary structures shall be designed and
constructed so they will blend in with and not detract from the appearance
of the mobile/manufactured home units. No such attachments or accessory
structures shall be constructed without first securing a building
permit.
(l)
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 that include potentially hazardous
locations, such as major park street intersections and steps or stepped
ramps, individually illuminated, with a minimum of 0.3 footcandle.
(m)
All mobile/manufactured home sites shall abut upon a street.
(n)
All mobile/manufactured home parks shall be provided with safe
and convenient vehicular access from abutting public streets or roads
to each mobile/manufactured home site. Entrances to parks shall be
designated to minimize congestion and traffic on adjacent streets.
(o)
Each mobile home unit shall have its own municipal water and
sanitary sewer service.
(2)
Dimensional requirements.
(a)
Site frontage: minimum 50 feet.
(b)
Site area: minimum 5,000 square feet.
(c)
Front setback and yard: minimum 25 feet at hitch and 18 feet
from house.
(d)
Corner side setback and yard: minimum 25 feet at hitch and 18
feet from house.
(e)
Side setback: minimum 10 feet.
(f)
Side yard: minimum six feet.
(g)
Rear setback: minimum 20 feet.
(h)
Rear yard: minimum six feet.
(3)
Parking area. Each parking space to be not less than 20 feet
wide and 400 square feet in area.
(4)
Buffer strip.
(a)
Each mobile/manufactured home park shall be completely surrounded,
except for permitted entrances and exits, by a yard containing a seventy-five-foot-wide
buffer strip along all boundaries.
(b)
A permanent evergreen planting, the individual trees to be of
such number and so arranged that within 10 years they will form 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. The trees shall be a minimum of six feet in height at the
time of planting.
H.
Maintenance of facilities. It shall be a condition of the granting
of a permit for the establishment of any mobile/manufactured home
park, and a continuing condition for the operation of the same, that:
(1)
All parking spaces, walks, and driveways are constructed and
maintained so as to prevent the accumulation of surface water and
the formation of substantial muddy areas.
(2)
The planting screen required is established and maintained.
(3)
The Building Inspector, Fire Chief, or their lawful agents or
employees are authorized and directed to inspect mobile/manufactured
home parks not less than once in every twelve-month period to determine
the health, safety, and welfare of the occupants of the park and inhabitants
of Greenville as affected thereby and the compliance of structures
and activities therein with this chapter and all other applicable
laws of the state and ordinances of the Village.
