(a)

Nonresidential use. A manufactured home shall not be considered to be permissible as an accessory building. However, a manufactured 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 manufactured home for living purposes except as follows:

(1)

Not more than one manufactured 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 manufactured home shall be allowed on such lot at any one time. No such residential lot shall be occupied by a manufactured home for more than a total of 30 days in any one year.

(3)

In an approved manufactured home park, in accordance with the following conditions:

a.

Manufactured home parks shall be allowed only as conditional uses in the R-1 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.

b.

Each manufactured home park shall have direct access to a principal county, township, city or state highway or arterial street or road.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Foundation siding means 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 the site.

Manufactured home communities (parks) means those distinguished from subdivisions lacking common facilities and continuing management services. The latter would be controlled by general subdivision regulations, which would apply also to manufactured home subdivisions without common open space or continuing management.

Manufactured home subdivision means 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 manufactured homes.

Primary exposure means open areas adjacent to the front wall (or main entrance) of a dwelling unit.

Residential manufactured home means 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 & Urban Development) both of which govern the heating and cooling systems, electrical systems, fire safety, body and frame construction, thermal protections and plumbing systems. All such homes shall bear the proper approved state insignia as required by the Wis. Adm. Code ILHR §§ 20.12—20.17.

Secondary exposure means open areas adjacent to side and rear walls of a dwelling unit.

Statutory definitions. In addition to the definitions of this section, definitions contained in Wis. Stats. § 66.058 shall also be applicable.

Cross reference— Definitions generally, § 1-2.

(a)

Size. Manufactured home parks shall comply with the following requirements:

(1)

No permit shall be issued for the establishment of a new manufactured home park unless such park contains at least 20 acres of area.

(2)

The average individual manufactured 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 manufactured home shall be located closer than 50 feet to any property line of the manufactured 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)

Manufactured homes shall be set back at least 15 feet from the pavement of streets or roadways within the park.

(3)

No part of any manufactured home, or any addition or appurtenance thereto shall be placed within 20 feet of any other manufactured home, addition, or appurtenance thereto, nor within 50 feet of any accessory or service building or structure.

(c)

Height. No building, structure or trailer located in a manufactured home park shall exceed 2½ stories or 35 feet in height.

(d)

Parking. There shall be at least one off-street parking space available to each individual manufactured home lot and located within 100 feet of such lot. However, the total number of parking spaces provided in each manufactured home park shall be equal to not less than 1⅓ times the maximum number of manufactured homes to be accommodated.

(e)

Landscaping. Along each property line of a manufactured home park there shall be provided, within the 50-foot setback area, screened fencing or landscape planting which shall be so designed and/or planted as to be 50 percent 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 manufactured home park, including street widths and construction of approach streets or ways, shall conform to the requirements of the city subdivision regulations for conventional residential subdivisions; 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 manufactured home site access streets or ways.

(g)

Common space. Each manufactured home park shall provide at least three acres of common space, exclusive of the required 50-foot peripheral setback, for use by recreational or service facilities. An additional 200 square feet of common space shall be provided for each manufactured home in excess of 160 contained within the park.