Park Falls City Zoning Code
ARTICLE IX
Mobile Home Parks
§ 480-60 Intent and purpose.
It is the intent and purpose of this article to regulate the placing of mobile homes of all types and varieties in the City of Park Falls with regard to providing adequate standards to protect the public health, safety, morals, convenience and general welfare.
§ 480-61 Purpose.
These mobile home park regulations are established for the following purposes:
A.
To provide regulations and standards for the development of a safe, healthy and well-designed community for permanent mobile home living.
B.
To provide, in appropriately located areas within specific zoning districts, sites for mobile home living developed at reasonable density consistent with sound standards of public health and safety.
C.
To comply as much as possible with the objectives and purposes of each zoning district in which mobile home parks are located.
D.
To insure adequate light, air, access, and open space for each mobile living unit.
E.
To regulate the mobile home park such that it will complement the land use policy of the zoning district.
§ 480-62 Mobile home park placement.
Mobile home parks may be permitted in the R-2 Two-Family and Multifamily District as a conditional use pursuant to the provisions of this article.
§ 480-63 Administration; authorization of mobile home parks.
A.
Application conference. Prior to applying for a conditional use permit, the applicant is required to confer with the Plan Commission. A conference shall be scheduled by the Plan Commission within 30 days after receipt of the following basic information and data, displayed to scale on maps:
(1)
The boundaries of the property;
(2)
Existing easements and covenants affecting the property;
(3)
Land characteristics, such as natural drainage, swamp areas, and wooded areas;
(4)
Development characteristics, such as surrounding streets, existing buildings, available community sewer, water, and other utilities;
(5)
An overall land use development plan delineating the street system, parking areas, concrete pads, recreational areas, public and private utility installations, and additional on-site improvements. Accompanying the land use development plan shall be a phasing plan for the development of the projects.
B.
Plan Commission review and recommendation.
(1)
The Plan Commission shall review the proposed conditional use permit to determine its conformity with land development trends in the community, standards of the official Comprehensive Plan, and recognized principles of design, land use planning, and landscape architecture.
(2)
The Plan Commission shall convey in writing to the applicant:
(a)
Approval;
(b)
Approval with conditions;
(c)
Approval with modifications;
(d)
Rejection of the proposal.
(3)
This communication must be made within 60 days of receipt of the conditional use permit application.
C.
Conditional use permit filing procedure.
(1)
Procedure. After receipt of a written report from the Plan Commission, the applicant may file for a conditional use permit in accordance with the provisions of Article V of this chapter, except that the final determination shall be by the Common Council.
(2)
Findings of fact. Within 30 days after the close of the public hearing on the proposed conditional use permit, the Common Council shall make a written findings of fact. For the Common Council to make an affirmative recommendation, it must find in each of the following instances that:
(a)
The establishment of a proposed mobile home park will not be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, morals, comfort, or general welfare.
(b)
The proposed mobile home park will not be injurious to the use and enjoyment of other property in the immediate vicinity for the purposes already permitted nor substantially diminish and impair property values within the neighborhood.
(c)
The proposed mobile home park will not impede the normal or orderly development and improvement of the surrounding property for uses permitted in the district.
(d)
Adequate utilities, access roads, drainage and/or other necessary facilities have been, are being, or will be provided.
(e)
Adequate measures have been or will be taken to provide ingress and egress so designed as to minimize traffic congestion in the public streets.
(3)
Effect of denial. No application for a conditional use permit which has been denied wholly or in part by the Common Council shall be resubmitted for a period of one year from the date of said denial, except on the grounds of new evidence or proof of changed conditions found to be valid by the Plan Commission.
§ 480-64 Mobile home park requirements.
Except as otherwise specifically authorized, no mobile home intended for occupancy shall be located within the City of Park Falls except in a mobile home park, the plan of which has been approved by the Common Council, upon the recommendation of the Plan Commission, and appropriate state agencies. Such parks shall meet the following requirements:
A.
Minimum size: 10 acres.
B.
Maximum number of mobile home sites: Six per acre.
C.
Minimum width of mobile home site: 40 feet.
D.
Maximum height of mobile home trailer: 25 feet.
E.
Minimum distance between mobile trailers: 20 feet.
F.
Minimum distance between mobile home and service road: 10 feet.
G.
Each mobile home site shall be connected to a public or common water supply system and a public or common sewage disposal system.
H.
All drives, parking areas, and walkways shall be hard-surfaced. There shall be one parking space for each mobile home and additional off-street parking spaces for automotive vehicles within the park, totaling not less than 1 1/2 parking spaces for each mobile home space.
I.
No mobile home sales offices or other business or commercial use shall be located on the mobile home park site. However, laundries, washrooms, recreation rooms, maintenance equipment, storage and one office are permitted.
J.
Minimum side yard setback: 40 feet at all front, side and rear lot lines of the mobile home park.
K.
Each mobile home shall be placed on a stand of a size to accommodate the use. The stand should provide for practical placement on and removal from the lot of the mobile home and retention of the home on the lot in a stable condition and in satisfactory relationship to its surroundings. The size of a development will be acceptable if it is suitable for the general market to be served by the individual proposal and fits the dimensions of mobile homes anticipated. The location of each mobile home stand shall be at such elevation, distance and accessway that placement and removal of the mobile home is practical. Appropriate materials, property graded, placed and compacted so as to be durable and adequate for the support of the maximum anticipation loads during all seasons should be used.
L.
All mobile homes shall meet the current construction standards of 42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 to 5426 (Title 42, Chapter 70, Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards).
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
M.
Mobile home parks shall comply with the sanitation regulations of the Price County Sanitary Code and the appropriate requirements of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
§ 480-65 Trailer camps and camping grounds.
A.
A trailer, camper, or tent must be located in a federal, state, town, city or county camp or in a private campground, the plan of which has been approved by the Common Council and appropriate state agencies.
B.
Each trailer site shall be plainly marked and surfaced.
C.
Maximum number of trailer sites shall be 15 per gross acre.
D.
All drives and parking areas other than those at individual trailer sites shall be surfaced, at least gravel surface.
E.
Central toilet, shower, and washing facilities shall be provided in sufficient quantity, as determined by the State Department of Safety and Professional Services requirements.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
F.
Water supply and sewage disposal shall be provided by the Park Falls public systems or shall comply with regulations of the Price County Sanitary Code and applicable State Administrative Codes.
G.
No trailer shall be less than 50 feet from the front, side, or rear lot lines of the camp.
H.
Marshland and shoreline areas shall not be altered.