Zoning

Modular Community will be Resident-owned

Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canadaian developer Kurtis Dmuchowski has received an initial green light to proceed with a modular housing subdivision in which the residents will own the land and the homes, and will have input to a board of directors that makes decisions about the community’s operation. The 56.62 acre site …

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City Needs Updating of Land Use Ordinances

Manufactured homes dominated the discussion at the Prescott, Ark. Planning and Zoning Commission meeting Thursday night. The city’s ordinances have not changed since 1979, and the need for a comprehensive plan is crucial, especially since having annexed a substantial plot of land north and west of the city in 1995. …

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City Planners Restricting Manufactured Housing Sites

The Magnolia, Ark. Planning and Zoning Commission has proposed restricting manufactured homes (MH) to R-3 zoning, thereby keeping it out of R-2 and R-1 zoning. The new measure would require amending zoning laws for most of this whole city, located in southwestern Arkansas, as MHProNews has learned, affecting hundreds of …

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Manufactured Home to be Replaced with Apartments

The planning commission in Juneau, Alaska has approved a conditional use permit to replace a manufactured home site with a twelve unit multifamily apartment building. Proposed by Delta Park LLC, the two-story structure will sit on a parcel of land zoned for 18 dwelling per acre. Building projects have increased …

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Ordinances Prevent Rehabbing of Land Lease Community

Having recently spent $55,000 to upgrade infrastructure at the Country Squire Mobile Home Park in Harker Heights, Tex., that he acquired last fall, and another $30,000 for a new manufactured home model, Kip Lewis’ plans to rehabilitate the community are being stymied by the city council. He wants to replace …

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Manufactured Housing Community Closing, Residents must move by Aug. 31

Residents of the Dallas West Mobile Home/RV Park in Dallas, Tex. just minutes from downtown received fliers June 11 announcing they had until Aug. 31 to move or face eviction. Dallas-based Cienda Partners bought the property in 2006, one year after the city council rezoned the community for apartments, and …

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Rezoning Request for Former Manufactured Housing Community Denied

Following a story MHProNews posted yesterday, June 25, concerning the former Hilltop manufactured housing community in State College, Penn. that a builder wants to develop into student housing, the College Township Council rejected the request. Despite a modified proposal from the developer, Ind.-based Trinitas Ventures, which offered a plan that …

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Student Housing Planned to Replace Manufactured Housing Community

MHProNews last posted a story May 23, 2013 concerning the closing of a land lease community in State College, Penn. in which the owners were sued for not reimbursing homeowners according to state law, and were ordered to pay. The land has now been sold to Trinitas Ventures, which intends …

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Cavco Storage Application Denied

MHProNews has learned from the seguingazette in Seguin, TX the planning and zoning commission denied a special use request by Cavco Industries, Inc. for the temporary storage of flatbed trailers used to transport modular homes. According to Keith Alexander of Cavco the trailers were used to transport modular barracks to …

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Oklahoma Prepares for Factory-built Subdivision

Woodward County Commissioners in Woodward, Okla. are moving forward on a zoning request change for a subdivision comprised of 36 one-acre lots for manufactured and modular housing as well as for stick-built homes. A public hearing is set for June 10 at a regularly scheduled county commissioners meeting for those …

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Measure Supports MH as Affordable Housing

Rep. Nathan Ramsey of the North Carolina House of Representatives has introduced a bill that would restrict counties from limiting the siting of manufactured homes, as natlawreview informs MHProNews, saying the measure is necessary to enlarge the inventory of affordable housing. House Bill 769 would allow MH to be located …

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Zoning Changed to Allow MODs

According to gwdtoday, the Greenwood City Council in Greenwood, South Carolina unanimously approved the rezoning of property along Beadle Ave. from R7 (high-density residential) to RM7 (high-density residential manufactured housing). The owner of the property intends to place modular homes on the site. Several members of the council noted it …

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MHC Owner Applies for Conditional Use Permit

According to thepublicopinion from Watertown, South Dakota, a public hearing has been set for May 20, 2013 regarding Pelican Plaza LLC’s application for a conditional use permit for its existing manufactured home community. The public is invited to attend or send written comments to the Codington County zoning officer. As …

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Community will be Annexed into the City

MHProNews has learned from the columbiamissourian, the Columbia City Council of Columbia, MO has voted to annex 25.2 acres occupied by the High Hill Circle land lease community which will add to the city’s affordable housing stock. City zoning is essentially the same as in the county, and will not …

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Modular Subdivision Proposed with 474 Homesites

The estevanmercury tells MHProNews the city council in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada is considering two proposals to help ease the housing shortage in the city. One is a modular subdivision with room for 474 homes proposed by developer Kurtis Dmuchowski of Regina-based West D Construction. He has offered to buy the …

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Proposal for Rezoning to Accommodate Manufactured Homes Denied

Although Baldwin County’s planning director recommended to the planning and zoning commission and to the county commission that 1.4 acres be re-zoned from single-family to manufactured housing in far south Alabama to permit siting of seven manufactured homes, the county commissioners denied the request. AL.com tells MHProNews a small contingent …

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Zoning Change will Allow more MH

The columbiamissourian tells MHProNews the High Hill Circle Mobile Home Park in Columbia, MO will expand by 16 homesites if the Doris Overton Trust, the owner of the MHC, has its way. The proposal would rezone the 26.4 acres from moderate density residential to residential manufactured home. The major infrastructure …

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Modular Project Headed for the Drain

Updating a story we ran Feb. 18, 2013 concerning Ridgefield Modular Home Corp.’s application to build a modular housing complex comprised of six units in two buildings in Ridgefield, Conn., according to ridgefieldpatch the Inland Wetlands Board (IWB) intends to deny the application based on insufficient information about drainage and …

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MOD Development Likely to be Denied

As follow-up to a story we posted Jan, 28, 2013 concerning an eleven-unit modular multi-housing project in Ridgefield, Conn., theridgefieldpress informs MHProNews the encroachment on existing wetlands may spell doom for the planned development. After neighbors raised objections to the project at subsequent public hearings, Ridgefield Modular Home Corp.’s application …

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MHC Denied Again

MyWestTexas reports plans for a proposed manufactured housing community for Midland, Tex. have been withdrawn by Brant Greathouse, co-owner of the planned Stone Bridge Estates after learning the Midland City Council was not planning on approving the zoning change request. Council members questioned whether a C-3 commercial district is appropriate …

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