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Commissioners consider permitting individual manufactured homes and modernizing manufactured‑home park rules
Summary
The commission reviewed a broad rewrite of how Fayetteville will treat individual manufactured homes, modular housing and manufactured‑home parks — clarifying definitions, safety and foundation requirements, separation distances, lot sizes, and park governance.
Fayetteville commissioners and staff spent the bulk of their May 22 meeting reviewing proposed changes to city land‑use rules for modular and manufactured housing, and how manufactured‑home parks would be regulated going forward.
Staff told the commission the city council approved modular housing on Tuesday, meaning modular construction now can be used under the city’s code. The larger conversation focused on manufactured housing, which is built to HUD standards. Staff proposed a consolidated definition: a detached residential dwelling unit built entirely in a factory under the federal HUD code that took effect June 15, 1976, and clarified how the term applies for floodplain management and insurance purposes.
Key proposed changes discussed include: - Permitting treatment: Staff proposed allowing individual manufactured homes by right in several single‑family zoning districts (RA, RSF 0.5 through RSF‑8) and in…
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