Cheria, Billy and Tony Duncan hope to buy Whiteside’s Green Acres manufactured home community and replace existing units with new ones from Premier Homes of the Carolinas that would sell for under $100,000. With home site rents planned at $350 a month, they intend to rename the community Claystone: A Retirement Community.
The sewer system in the community is failing, and many residents have moved out because of it, but the Duncan’s have agreed to replace the lines at a cost of $170,000. t
While the Duncan’s are in the due diligence phase of acquiring the community, they are asking the city to waive system development charges of up to $26,350 which presents a problem, because current city policy only allows impact fee waivers for non-profit developers.
City Manager Steve Connet said, “We feel like this is a request we’re probably going to see more and more coming down the pike as we look at affordable housing. As much as we’d like to encourage and support good safe clean affordable housing the question is how do we make sure that what we’re waiving does in fact result in affordable housing.”
Cheria Duncan says she wants all the homes to have porches because that lends itself to socializing and a sense of community. Current residents would be offered the opportunity to buy one of the homes. She and her husband intend to live in the community as owner-managers. ##
(Photo credit: Rebel Home–multi-section home being sited)
