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Planning staff recommend code change to allow mobile dwelling units across residential zones

5388660 · June 18, 2025
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Summary

Planning staff presented PCC case 2025‑45 recommending a new "mobile dwelling unit" definition, permitting such units in residential zones and easing approvals for mobile dwelling communities; staff said traditional manufactured housing parks are no longer economically feasible in Anchorage.

Daniel Kenna Foster, long‑range planning manager in the planning department, briefed the Anchorage Assembly work session on proposed zoning changes in PCC case 2025‑45 intended to allow "mobile dwelling units" as a permitted housing type across residential zones.

The planning department said a consultant report found new manufactured housing communities are largely infeasible in Anchorage because infrastructure,…

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