In addition to the definitions in §
715-7, the following definitions are used in this article:
LICENSEE or OPERATOR
Any person licensed to operate and maintain a mobile home
park under this article.
MOBILE HOME PARK
Any park, camp, court, site, plot, parcel or tract of land
designed, maintained, intended or used for the purpose of supplying
a location or locations or accommodations for two or more mobile homes
on a parcel and shall include all buildings used or intended for use
as part of the equipment thereof, whether or not a charge is made
for the use of the mobile home park and its facilities. "Mobile home
park" shall not include automobile or mobile home sales lots on which
unoccupied mobile homes are parked for the sole purpose of inspection
and sale.
MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISION
A parcel of land platted for subdivision according to all requirements of the Village Subdivision Ordinance (Chapter
700) and comprehensive plan, designed or intended for lots to be conveyed by deed to individual owners for residential occupancy primarily by mobile homes.
NONDEPENDENT UNIT
A mobile home that has a complete toilet and bath or shower
facilities.
PERSON
An individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association,
trust, whether owner, lessee, licensee or their agent, heir or assignee.
RESIDENTIAL MOBILE HOME
The definition in §
715-7 shall be applicable in this article. All said homes shall bear the proper approved Wisconsin insignia as required by the Wisconsin Administrative Code, §§ SPS 320.12 to 320.17. "Mobile home" also means any coach, cabin, trailer, house car or other structure which is, or was as originally constructed, designed to be transported by any motor vehicle upon a public highway and designed, equipped or used for sleeping, eating or living quarters or as a place of business, or is intended to be so used, whether mounted upon wheels or supports or capable of being moved by its own power or transported by another vehicle, and includes any additions, attachments, foundations, annexes and appurtenances thereto.
SPACE
A plot of ground within a mobile home park designed for the
accommodation of one mobile home unit.
UNIT
Any mobile home unit.
The following principal uses and structures are permitted within
the R-4 District:
A. One-family detached mobile homes (residential mobile home). In mobile
home park 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.
C. Rental. No mobile home park site shall be rented for a period of
less than 30 days.
No mobile home park license shall be issued until the Village
Clerk-Treasurer shall notify the Village Board and the Village Board
or its designee shall have inspected each application and the premises
on which mobile homes will be located to ensure compliance with the
regulations, ordinances and laws applicable thereto. No licensee will
be renewed without a reinspection of the premises. For the purposes
of making inspections and securing the enforcement of this chapter,
such officials or their authorized agents shall have the right and
are hereby empowered to enter on any premises on which a mobile home
is located or about to be located and to inspect the same and all
accommodations connected therewith at any reasonable time.
There shall be at least two spaces in each mobile home park
and no more than 100 spaces; all requirements of this article for
the issuance of a license shall be complied with prior to the issuance
of such license and proper rezoning as to each of the available spaces
designed into said mobile home park. All accommodations required by
this article shall be based upon the total park capacity according
to the accepted plans.
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 Board of Health. 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 lands or mobile home parks within the R-4
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 communities 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 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 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 §
715-46 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. Exterior yards for mobile home communities; minimum requirements;
occupancy. The following requirements and limitations shall apply
to yards at the outer edges of mobile home communities:
(1)
Along public streets. Where a parcel zoned R-4 adjoins public
streets along exterior boundaries, a yard at least 25 feet in minimum
dimensions shall be provided adjacent to such streets. Such yard may
be used to satisfy open space depth requirements for individual dwellings
but shall not contain carports, recreational shelters, storage structures
or any other structures generally prohibited in yards adjacent to
streets in residential districts. No direct vehicular access to individual
lots shall be permitted through such yards, and no group parking facilities
or active recreation areas shall be allowed therein.
(2)
At edges of R-4 Districts (other than at streets or alleys).
Where R-4 communities are so located that one or more boundaries are
at the edges of R-4 districts and adjoining neighboring districts
without an intervening street, alley or other permanent open space
at least 20 feet in width, an exterior yard at least 20 feet in minimum
dimension shall be provided. Where the adjoining district is residential,
the same limitations on occupancy and use of such yards shall apply
as stated above concerning yards along public streets. Where the adjoining
district is nonresidential, such yards may be used for group or individual
parking, active recreation facilities or carports, recreational shelters
or storage structures.
E. 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.
F. Yards, fences, walls or vegetative screening at edges of mobile home
communities. Along the edges of mobile home communities, walls or
vegetative screening shall be provided where needed to protect residents
from undesirable views, lighting, noise or other off-site influences
or to protect occupants of adjoining residential districts from potentially
adverse influences within the mobile home community. In particular,
extensive off-street parking areas and service areas for loading and
unloading other than passenger vehicles, and for storage and collection
of trash and garbage, shall be screened.
G. 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 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 designed 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.