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Village of Greenville, WI
Outagamie County
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Reference: Table 320-503-1; Table 320-505-1; Table 320-509-1; Table 320-509-2; Table 320-509-3.[1]
A. 
Definitions.
MANUFACTURED HOME
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.
MOBILE HOME
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.
MOBILE/MANUFACTURED HOME PARK
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.
MOBILE/MANUFACTURED HOME SITE
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.
MOBILE/MANUFACTURED HOME SUBDIVISION
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.
NONCONFORMITIES
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:
(1) 
Repair or replacement of homes.
(2) 
Repair or replacement of infrastructure.
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.
[1]
Editor's Note: Table 320-503-1 is included in § 320-503; Table 320-505-1 is included in § 320-505A; Table 320-509-1 is included in § 320-509A; Table 320-509-2 is included in § 320-509B; and Table 320-509-3 is included in § 320-509C.