Hobart City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XXVII
Manufactured Home Parks
§ 295-296 Regulations.
A.
This article shall regulate the parking, location, and maintaining of all manufactured homes and manufactured home parks within the Village of Hobart.
B.
Manufactured home parks shall be allowed as conditional uses in the R-1 Residential District only.
C.
Manufactured home parks shall be prohibited in all other zoning districts within the Village of Hobart.
D.
No manufactured home park space shall be rented or leased for a period of less than 30 days.
§ 295-297 Definitions.
A.
The following definitions are in addition to Article III to further clarify and explain word usage in conjunction with this article on manufactured home parks.
B.
Manufactured homes, manufactured home parks, and accessory use of a building shall apply, as defined in Article III, Definitions.
C. DEPENDENT UNIT INDEPENDENT UNIT PERSON SPACE UNIT
As used in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
A manufactured home lacking a bath or shower and toilet facilities.
A manufactured home that contains a kitchen, toilet facilities, bath or shower, and fully equipped for living purposes.
Shall be construed to include an individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation, whether tenant, owner, lessee, licensee or other agent, heir or assign.
A plot of land, whether leased, sold, rented, or transferred, which is intended for location of one manufactured home only.
One manufactured home.
§ 295-298 Location outside of manufactured home park.
A.
No person shall park or occupy a manufactured home outside of an approved manufactured home park, except as provided for in § 295-299 of this article.
B.
Emergency or temporary stopping or parking is permitted on any street, alley or highway for not longer than one hour, subject to any other and further prohibition imposed by the traffic and parking regulation or ordinance for that street, alley, or highway.
§ 295-299 Permit for location outside of manufactured home park.
(Permits issued under this section are nontransferable and will expire upon change of occupancy.)
A.
Upon a showing of a hardship and/or immediate necessity for use, the Village Board may issue special written permits allowing the location of a manufactured home outside of a manufactured home park for a period not to exceed 90 days for any one premises in any twelve-month period. The permit shall be granted only upon the written consent of the owner, legal agent of the owner, or the lessee of the location for which the permit is issued. Not more than one manufactured home shall be granted a permit to locate on any one premises outside a manufactured home park. Any violation of this clause shall comply with the penalty as set forth in Article XXXI, Administration and Enforcement, of this chapter.
B.
Application for the permit shall be made to the Village Clerk-Treasurer and shall be accompanied by an inspection fee in an amount as set from time to time by the Village Board, and shall state the name and permanent addresses of the occupants of the manufactured home, the license number of the manufactured home and towing vehicle, place of last stay, intended purpose of stay at requested location, whether any occupant is employed in state; the exact location of premises, and the owner's and/or occupant's sanitary facilities, and the permission of the occupant of the dwelling house for their uses; and a statement that all wastes from manufactured home occupancy will be disposed of in a sanitary manner. Application for location on a vacant lot or parcel of land shall be accompanied by a statement of the nature and location of sanitary facilities, which must include a safe water supply and toilet within 200 feet of the proposed location of the manufactured home, and a statement of permission from the owner for their use.[1]
C.
Manufactured homes and dwellings in conjunction with an operating farm in conformance with § 295-221D may be allowed as a conditional use to be used solely by resident owner or laborer actively engaged in the farming operation.
D.
All occupied manufactured homes not located in a manufactured home park shall be subject to the remaining regulations of this chapter.
§ 295-300 Manufactured home park license.
A.
No person shall establish, operate, or maintain, or permit to be established, operated, or maintained upon any property owned, leased, rented, or controlled by him/her a manufactured home park within the Village of Hobart, without first securing a license from the Village Board. The license shall expire one year after issuance and must be renewed annually.
C.
The application for a license or renewal thereof shall be made on forms furnished by the Village Clerk-Treasurer, and shall include the name and address of the owner in fee of the tract (if the fee is vested in some person other than the applicant, a duly verified statement by that person that the application is authorized by him/her to construct or maintain the manufactured home park and make the application), and such legal description of the premises upon which the manufactured home park is or will be located as will readily identify and definitely locate the premises.
D.
The applicant shall further comply with manufactured home regulations as set forth in the Wisconsin State Statutes.
§ 295-301 Manufactured home park plan.
A.
Prior to the issuing of any license or permit for a manufactured home park, the developer shall submit 10 copies of the manufactured home park plan to the Village Planning and Zoning Commission of Hobart. The plan shall be approved, in writing, by the Village Planning and Zoning Commission/Site Review Committee prior to the start of construction or development of the park.
B.
Each Manufactured Home Park Plan submitted to the Village Planning and Zoning Commission shall require the following information:
(1)
Exact area and extent of the proposed park, accompanied by a legal description or certified survey map. Plans shall be drawn at a scale of one inch to 200 feet minimum.
(2)
All roadways, driveways, and ingress and egress points, and parking bays.
(3)
Complete layout of storm, sanitary and water systems for the park.
(4)
Plan for electrical distribution and lighting facilities.
(5)
Method and plan of garbage removal.
(6)
Plans for providing adequate fire protection for the park.
D.
Electrical service to manufactured home spaces shall conform to the regulations as set forth in the Wisconsin State Electrical Code.
E.
An adequate supply of pure water, furnished through a pipe distribution system with supply faucets shall be furnished for drinking and domestic purposes.
F.
All manufactured homes shall be independent units.
§ 295-302 Driveways, roadways, and parking.
A.
All drives, parking areas, and walkways shall be hard surfaced.
B.
Within the manufactured home parks, a minimum roadway width of 30 feet shall be established.
C.
The manufactured home park shall have direct access to a state highway, county highway, or Village road. There shall be sufficient points of ingress and egress to provide proper traffic movement, as determined by the Planning and Zoning Commission.
§ 295-303 Site and yard requirements.
The following regulations shall apply to all manufactured home spaces that are sold, rented, leased, or transferred in an approved manufactured home park.
A.
Manufactured homes within manufactured home parks shall be a conditional use in the Residential R-1 District.
B.
The minimum size of a manufactured home park shall be five acres in sewered area.
D.
A concrete or bituminous pad shall be constructed on each manufactured home space. The minimum size of this pad shall be 10 feet wide by 15 feet in length. The minimum thickness of the surfacing shall be four inches. The pad shall enclose all utility connections for the manufactured home.
E.
Each manufactured home space shall provide a front yard setback of 10 feet and a rear yard setback of 20 feet. Side yards shall have a minimum setback of five feet each.
F.
The yard setbacks shall be seeded and landscaped and in no case shall they be used for off-street parking or be occupied by a manufactured home and/or its accessory buildings, except for the following conditions:
(1)
Structures for utility outlets and garages serving more than one manufactured home space may be located within the side or rear yard setback of a common lot line.
(2)
The hitch transportation devices used for pulling the manufactured home must be removed prior to occupancy.
(3)
Unit must sit on approved frost wall with concrete block skirting.
(4)
Roof pitch must be minimum 5:12. Eave ends must be 18 inches with eave trough.
§ 295-304 Parking fee and assessment.
The Village Board of Hobart shall have the authority to impose a parking fee on manufactured homes within an approved manufactured home park or outside of an approved park, as provided for in Wisconsin State Statutes. The parking fee shall be based on the following regulations:
A.
There is hereby imposed on each owner or operator of a manufactured home park licensed hereunder a parking permit fee on each occupied manufactured home unit which shall have been parked in such manufactured home park. The parking fee shall also apply to manufactured home units located outside of an approved manufactured home park. The amount of the parking fee shall be determined by the Village Board of Hobart and the local Village Assessor in accordance with Wisconsin State Statute, § 66.0435, and as amended. No manufactured home space shall be rented for a period of less than 30 days.
B.
The local Assessor shall determine the total fair market value of each occupied manufactured home, minus the tax exempt household furnishings, and then equalized to the general level of assessment on other real and personal property in the Village of Hobart.
C.
The value of each occupied manufactured home thus determined shall be multiplied by the tax rate established on the preceding May 1 assessment of general property.
D.
Total annual parking permit fee shall be divided by 12 to determine monthly fee.
E.
A new fee rate and a new valuation shall be established each January and shall continue for that calendar year.
F.
Said parking fee shall be collected by the owner or operator of the manufactured home park and paid to the local taxing authority on or before the 10th day of the month following the period for which such parking permit is due.
G.
No fee shall be imposed on a manufactured home from another state unless said unit has been placed within the Village of Hobart for a sixty-day period.
H.
The Village of Hobart may retain 10% of the parking fee for administration costs.
I.
The Village of Hobart shall pay to the school district in which park is located, within 20 days after the end of each period, such proportion of the remainder of the fees collected in the preceding month as the ratio of the most recent property tax levy for school purposes bears to the total tax levy for all purposes in the municipality.
§ 295-305 Management.
A.
In every manufactured home park there shall be located the office of the attendant or person in charge of said park. A copy of the park license and of this article shall be kept in said office.
B.
It is hereby made the duty of the attendant or person in charge, together with the licensee, to:
(1)
Keep a register of all occupants, to be open at all times to inspection by state, federal, and local officials, which shall show for all occupants of the manufactured home park the following:
(a)
Names and addresses.
(b)
Number and ages of all children.
(c)
Number of public elementary school children.
(d)
Number of public secondary school children.
(e)
State of legal residence.
(f)
Dates of entrance and departure.
(g)
License numbers of all manufactured homes and towing or other vehicles.
(h)
State issuing such license.
(i)
Purpose of stay in park.
(j)
Place of last location and length of stay.
(k)
Place of employment of each occupant.
(2)
Maintain the park in a clean, orderly, and sanitary condition at all times.
(3)
Insure that the provisions of this article are complied with and enforced and report promptly to the proper authorities any violations of this article or any other violations of law which may come to his/her attention.
(5)
Maintain in convenient places, approved by the Hobart Fire Inspector, hand fire extinguishers in the ratio of one for each eight manufactured home spaces.
(6)
Collect the monthly parking permit fee provided for in § 295-304 of this article. A book shall be kept showing the names of persons paying said service charges and the amount paid.
(7)
Submit with the total monthly parking permit fee payment to the Village Clerk-Treasurer, a monthly report showing the names of persons paying said fees, and the amount paid if less than for a full month. The report to also indicate departure time for current tenants, and arrival time for new tenants, including departure time if occurring the same month.