Amery City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XV
Mobile Homes
§ 450-119 Intent; where permitted.
A.
Nonresidential use. A trailer or mobile home shall not be considered to be permissible as an accessory building. However, a trailer or mobile home may be used as a temporary office or shelter incidental to construction on or development of the premises on which the trailer is located only during the time construction or development is actively underway.
B.
Location. No person shall park, store, or occupy a house trailer or mobile home for living purposes except as follows:
(1)
Not more than one mobile home shall be permitted on the same lot as an agricultural use. However, this restriction shall not be construed as precluding temporary, seasonal housing for migrant farm laborers.
(2)
In connection with, and on the same lot as, a single-family dwelling, for a period not to exceed 15 days in duration. Not more than one mobile home shall be allowed on such lot at any one time. No such residential lot shall be occupied by a mobile home for more than a total of 30 days in any one year.
(3)
In an approved mobile home park, in accordance with the following conditions:
(a)
Mobile home parks shall be allowed only as conditional uses in the R-4 District and shall abut a business or industrial district or be separated from such business or industrial district only by a street or an alley.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
(b)
Each mobile home park shall have direct access to a principal county, township, City, or state highway or arterial street or road.
§ 450-120 Definitions.
A.
The following definitions are used in this article:
FOUNDATION SIDING
A fire- and weather-resistant, prefinished material surrounding the entire perimeter of a home and completely enclosing the 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.
MOBILE HOME PARKS[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
Mobile home 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, firesafety, body and frame construction, thermal protections, and plumbing systems. All said homes shall bear the proper approved Wisconsin insignia as required by §§ SPS 320.12 to SPS 320.17, Wis. Adm. Code.
SECONDARY EXPOSURE
Open areas adjacent to side and rear walls of a dwelling unit.
B.
Statutory definitions. In addition to the above definitions, definitions contained in § 66.0435, Wis. Stats., shall also be applicable.
§ 450-121 Mobile home park regulations.
A.
Size. Mobile home parks shall comply with the following requirements:
(1)
No permit shall be issued for the establishment of a new mobile home park unless such park contains at least 20 acres of area.
(2)
The average individual mobile home lot size shall not be less than 4,000 square feet in area, and no lot shall be smaller than 3,200 square feet in area.
(3)
Each individual mobile home lot shall be at least 44 feet in effective width. "Effective width" shall mean the distance between side lot lines, measured at the rear line of the required front yard. On diagonal lots, it shall be measured at right angles across the lot from one diagonal side line to the other.
B.
Yards and setbacks. The following minimum setback regulations shall apply:
(1)
No building, structure, or mobile home shall be located closer than 50 feet to any property line of the mobile home park, nor closer than 75 feet to any principal county, township, City, or state highway or arterial street or roadway right-of-way.
(2)
Mobile homes shall be set back at least 15 feet from the pavement of streets or roadways within the park.
(3)
No part of any mobile home, or any addition or appurtenance thereto shall be placed within 10 feet of any other mobile home, addition, or appurtenance thereto.
C.
Height. No building, structure, or trailer located in a mobile home park shall exceed 2 1/2 stories or 35 feet in height.
D.
Parking. There shall be at least two off-street parking spaces available to each individual mobile home lot and located within 100 feet of such lot. However, the total number of parking spaces provided in each mobile home park shall be equal to not less than 1 1/3 times the maximum number of mobile homes to be accommodated.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
E.
Landscaping. Along each property line of a mobile home park there shall be provided, within the fifty-foot setback area, screen fencing or landscape planting which shall be so designed and/or planted as to be 50% or more opaque when viewed horizontally between two feet and eight feet above average ground level.
F.
Design and improvements. The design and improvements to be provided in the proposed mobile home park, including street widths and construction of approach streets or ways, shall conform to the requirements of Chapter 443, Subdivision of Land, for conventional residential subdivision containing 10,000 square foot lots. However, the street width and construction requirements in the subdivision regulations shall be applied only to those streets which would be necessary to service a future conventional residential subdivision on such tract of land, and need not be applied to secondary mobile home site access streets or ways.
G.
Common space. Each mobile home park shall provide at least three acres of common space, exclusive of the required fifty-foot peripheral setback, for use by recreational or service facilities. An additional 200 square feet of common space shall be provided for each house trailer in excess of 160 contained within the park.