The mailtribune reports from Medford, Oregon the city council is considering a request to not only protect older homes from demolition, but to preserve homes that are older than 50 years in neighborhoods where factory-built housing or apartments can be excluded. Medford State Representative Sal Esquivel, noting a manufactured house sited among older homes that has forever changed the character of the street, says the city should require new homes to bear architectural characteristics of the surrounding homes to help it blend with the neighborhood. MHProNews has learned Esquivel and Old East Medford Homeowner’s Association presented an ordinance the city of Ashland, OR had adopted as an example.

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