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Senate committee hears bill to move RV and mobile-home-park reviews into 'buildings for lease or rent' process
Summary
Senator Forrest Mandeville introduced Senate Bill 174, which would move review of recreational-vehicle parks and mobile-home parks from subdivision review into the buildings-for-lease-or-rent process, arguing the change would streamline review while remaining subject to local zoning.
Senator Forrest Mandeville, sponsor of Senate Bill 174, told the Senate Local Government Committee that the bill would move review of recreational-vehicle parks and mobile-home parks out of subdivision review and into the state statute governing buildings for lease or rent (BLR).
Mandeville (Senator Forrest Mandeville) said the current practice treats RV and mobile-home parks as subdivisions even though ‘‘you're not dividing land. You're creating spaces,’’ and that BLR ‘‘fits better’’ because it covers leasing or renting buildings or portions thereof and is subject to local zoning.
Housing and real-estate groups testified in favor. Daniel Cox, with the Montana Association of Realtors, said the association is supportive. Jake Brown of Shelter Whitefish said the measure ‘‘aims to ensure a more consistent regulatory treatment of these sort of RV…
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