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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News July 24-July 31, 2016

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com NIMBYism? Debunking Myths About Manufactured Home Communities (aka ‘Mobile Home Parks’) What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News FEMA moving manufactured homes into four W. VA. Counties. CFPB proposes clarification of Know Before You Owe. Patrick’s revenues rise 35%. Sun’s stock projected …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News July 17-July 24, 2016

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com The Aha! Moment – Entertainer’s Delight LifeStyle Model Home Video Tour Proud to be American, God Bless the USA, Lee Greenwood Music Video, Interview What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Trump’s acceptance speech unexpectedly draws favorable response on CNN. New Jersey …

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Texas Commissioners Deny MHC App, Prompting DJ Pendleton to Come out Swinging

In Del Valle, Texas, near Austin, despite a zoning recommendation from city staff in favor of a new manufactured home community as requested by the applicant, members of the Zoning and Platting Commission voted against the zoning change. Neighbors complained of crime– “We don’t want that increased vandalism, that increased …

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Laramie, WY Updating 50-year old Manufactured Home Regulations

As kowb1290 in Laramie, Wyoming tells MHProNews, licensing of manufactured home communities (MHC) began in the 1950s, before zoning even existed, and has remained mostly unchanged as part of the zoning code since. The city council will consider the third and final reading of updated standards for MHCs on Tuesday, …

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Canadian City to Deal with MH Community Rezoning, Hold Housing Forum

The Sooke City Council in British Columbia, Canada, south of the Vancouver area, is off for the summer, but when it returns in the fall, the councillors will be taking up an issue dealing with the owner of a manufactured home community (MHC) who wants to rezone 11,300 square feet …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News June 19-June 26, 2016

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Entry Level v Residential Style Manufactured Homes, Modular Homes and MH Appraisals – Tom Papszycki, Arrowhead Homes – Inside What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Louisiana Approves 336 home site MH community. Polish modular builder marketing in Sweden. Oregon legislator tryhing …

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Calcasieu Parish in LA Approves Manufactured Home Community

MHProNews has learned that the Calcasieu Parish police jurors in far southwestern Louisiana voted 13-1 to approve rezoning from single-family residential to manufactured home community (MHC) for a 336-home site property on U. S. 90 East. Johnny Guillory, speaking on behalf of His Heirs LLC, called it a manufactured home …

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Louisiana Commission Denies Siting of Manufactured Home

The Sulphur Land Use Commission in Sulphur, Louisiana declined to allow a manufactured home (MH) to be sited on a prepared lot because they were initially told it was a modular home, which would have been acceptable. Public Works official Keith Berry said the property would have to be re-zoned …

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Manufactured Home Sited Illegally in Arkansas

A manufactured home has been sited in Stuttgart, Arkansas in an area zoned residential R-2, which does not allow manufactured homes (MH), creating a conundrum for the Stuttgart City Council. At an April 19 meeting Code Enforcement Officer Gary Norris said the home was modular and meets the city building …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News June 5-June 12, 2016

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Media Should Re-Visit Dodd-Frank Reporting in Light of Congressional Testimony Modular Versus Manufactured Homes: Which Is Right for You?   What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Lake Villa MH community sells for $11.3 million. HUD Code production climbs 9.9% in April. …

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Plans Move Forward on New Canadian MH Community

From eaglevalleynews in southeast British Columbia, Canada MHProNews has learned Sicamous, BC developer Darrel Trouton is seeking municipal approval to site manufactured homes in an area targeted to affordable housing, but requiring rezoning from R1A, urban single-family home to include CSA-approved Z240, which is for manufactured homes (MH), but would …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News May 15-May 22, 2016

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Illinois Professional Couple Discover their Getaway Home near Florida’s top Beaches What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News MH Community adding 46 homes. Malibu manufactured home goes for $3.5 million. Oregon MHC sets new record. Oklahoma City has first modular hotel. Americans …

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Oak Forest MH Community Expanding in New Jersey

While the original Oak Forest manufactured home community in Egg Harbor Townhship, in southern New Jersey had 158 home sites, current owner/developer Ralph Clayton received a use variance from the zoning board in 2007, and site preparation is now in progress for an additional 92 MH sites. The 54.62 acre …

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County Commissioners deny Request to Rezone Land for Manufactured Home Community

The Yellowstone County Commission in Montana unanimously voted against a zone change request from residential tracts to residential manufactured homes (MH) on some 30 acres of vacant land outside Laurel, just south of Billings, but within the city’s zoning jurisdiction following neighborhood complaints against the proposal. Remonstrators allege the development …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News April 24-May 1, 2016

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Conventional Housing and Manufactured Homes Video Report What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News MHC closing in Minneapolis. CFPB constitutionality challenged. MHARR, MHI spar over DTS and chattel lending. Clayton acquires another site-built home builder. Champion expanding into Kentucky. Drew …

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Stop-work Order Leads to Uncertain Future of Factory-built Home

Eight months after issuing a stop-work order on what was said to be a modular home due to an ordinance violation in the Ward Ridge area of Port St. Joe, Fla., the order remains in effect and the home sits unoccupied, on wheels, and falling over. Owned by Robert Mike, …

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City Unanimously Approves Manufactured Home Siting

The Corsicana (TX) City Council unanimously approved a request from Thomas Douglas to site a manufactured home on property he owns on East Third Ave., as the corsicanadailysun informs MHProNews. “I have other property in town, but I cannot put a manufactured home on it,” said Douglas to the council. …

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Rezoning Requests Approved for MH and RV sites

Following a story MHProNews posted July 24, 2015 regarding the need for workforce housing in southwest Louisiana where up to 54,000 workers will build an ethane cracker and gas-to-liquid facility, americanpress reports Calcasieu Parish officials are dealing with multiple requests to accommodate recreational vehicles (RV) and manufactured homes (MH). At …

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Virginia County Recommends Manufactured Home Rezoning Request

The Henry County Board of Supervisors in south central Virginia will hold a public hearing to respond to the request of Ruben Torrres to rezone property for locating a manufactured home (MH). The property is in a 100 year-old flood plain, as designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), …

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Students Compete to Redesign Affordable Housing Complex

A graduate student team from the University of Texas at Austin won the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) third annual Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition. As hud.portal tells MHProNews, the Austin team was one of four team finalists to come up with …

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