Westville (Illinois) Village Trustees denied a request from resident John Barton to purchase a 22 year-old manufactured home within the village limits and and reposition it on a vacant lot within the village for his daughter and her family. The Westville zoning ordinance does not allow manufactured homes (MH) older than ten years to be sited within village limits, according to commercial-news.com. The ordinance also requires MH to have a roof pitch of less than 4 1/2 and the approval of neighbors within 4,000 feet. The home Barton wanted to purchase has a pitch of 3 1/2, as MHProNews has learned. The village would have to eliminate the current ordinance in order to accommodate Barton’s request. ##

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