Committee hears substitute proposal to allow one mobile dwelling per lot in UGAs with hookup rules

Committee staff described a proposed substitute to House Bill 1443 that would define "mobile dwellings" and require fully planning cities or counties to allow at least one such unit on a qualifying residential lot located inside an urban growth area.

Serena Dolly, staff to the committee, briefed members on the substitute offered by Representative Gregersen. Under that draft, a mobile dwelling includes travel trailers, folding camping trailers, motor homes and fifth wheels. The substitute requires a lot to have at least one existing housing unit, be in a UGA, be able to be served by water, sewer, stormwater and transportation, and not be located in designated critical areas, natural resource lands or shorelines. "The mobile dwelling must be connected to electrical service through a dedicated outlet," Dolly said, and if the mobile dwelling has internal plumbing it must be connected to water and sewer; otherwise the occupants must have access to water and toilet and shower facilities in an existing housing unit on the lot.

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