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Lake City board backs one-year moratorium on manufactured- and mobile-home permit applications
Summary
The planning board voted unanimously to recommend a one-year moratorium (M 2501) on acceptance and consideration of applications for mobile and manufactured home land-use actions while staff rewrites LDR language distinguishing manufactured, modular and other dwelling types.
The Planning and Zoning Board voted unanimously July 8 to recommend the City Council adopt a one-year moratorium on acceptance and consideration of applications and permits for dwellings constructed to standards other than the Florida Building Code — commonly described at the hearing as mobile homes or manufactured homes.
City planning staff said the moratorium (resolution PZLPAM2501 recommending ordinance No. 2025-2316 as cited in the staff report) was requested so staff could revise the Land Development Regulations (LDR) to clarify distinctions among manufactured homes, modular homes and similar dwelling types. Staff said modular homes are built to the Florida Building Code and would not be affected by the moratorium; manufactured homes are built to HUD standards and would be affected.
Mister Angelo, the planning presenter, told the board the moratorium covers both standard and residential-model manufactured homes. "The only one that would be affected by it is a manufactured home or a mobile home," Angelo said. He said planned separate text amendments later this year will address accessory dwelling units (ADUs), tiny homes and modular/kit homes in separate processes.
Board members asked whether the moratorium would affect other work and whether later text amendments for modular or tiny homes would proceed; staff said those would be separate text amendments and not blocked by the moratorium. The board moved to adopt resolution PZLPAM2501 recommending a one-year moratorium; the motion passed on a unanimous roll call: Miss McCollum, Miss Wilson, Chair Douglas, Mr. Carlucci and Mr. Lydic voting yes.
Staff said the moratorium will give planners time to rewrite LDR language so that the city can clearly distinguish between HUD-built manufactured homes and modular homes built to the Florida Building Code before accepting new applications for the affected categories.
