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Superior approves $185,000 purchase of private improvements at Nemanji Mobile Home Park
Summary
The City of Superior voted to buy private site improvements at Nemanji Mobile Home Park from Richard and Cynthia Larson for $185,000 after the lease with the Larsons ended; councilors asked about permits and current management.
The Superior City Council voted to purchase private improvements at Nemanji Mobile Home Park from Richard and Cynthia Larson for $185,000.
The purchase follows expiration of a long‑running 1981 lease that allowed the Larsons, as managers and occupants, to make private improvements to the park; the lease terminated in October of last year after roughly 30 years of Larson management, city officials said.
City Attorney Prowl told councilors the package of purchased items includes garages, sheds, concrete and blacktop pads, mechanical systems, plumbing, sewer and dump stations, electrical systems and other site infrastructure. “Those private improvements included a number of garages, sheds where equipment is stored, actual pads, concrete and blacktop used for pads for temporary or recreational equipment as well as more permanent structures,” Prowl said. The resolution gives the city “full control access and ownership of all the things that you see out there, and above and below grade,” he said.
Councilor Brown asked whether much of the work had been done without permits and whether the current manager is operating under a similar lease. Prowl said the city does not encourage deviations from code and ordinance requirements and that it is difficult to control every improvement retrospectively. He identified the current manager as Bichon Group and said he had limited day‑to‑day contact with them; he told the council he had the impression they were “doing a very solid job of tending to the details.”
Planning Director Cirque and Finance Director Vito were listed in the packet as recommending the final purchase. Councilors made a motion and seconded it; the vote was taken verbally (“All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?”) and the motion passed.
The city did not adopt any immediate changes to resident occupancy or operation of the park during the meeting; Prowl said the park is being managed as a mobile home park and “no one's being asked to leave, that's for certain.”
