Building inspector Norm Franken says the city does not have the authority to demolish trashed, abandoned homes, according to northplattebulletin.com. At a city council meeting MHC owners objected to one rule regulating the size of homesites, which was then subsequently changed. City Administrator Jim Hawks held a meeting with several community owners Feb. 4 before developing the new standards, but when other owners who knew nothing of the original meeting objected to the new ordinance, he suggested another gathering to work out details. Owner of Mobile Home Manor community, Patrick Peterson, who knew nothing of the initial meeting, said owners are just as interested in cleaning up dilapidated properties. ##
(Photo credit: Kaitlyn Walsh/northfieldnews.com–abandoned manufactured home)