Brandonale residents ask Chaska leaders to back manufactured‑housing bill, cite safety and maintenance failures

Sherry Myers, an organizing leader with the Brandonale Residents Association, told the City of Chaska council Monday that residents of the manufactured‑home park face repeated utility shutoffs, nonworking street lights, dangerous trees and threats of eviction after the park’s acquisition by Haven Park Capital Investments.

Myers said residents were notified after the sale and have since seen lot‑rent increases and maintenance problems. “We need your support to stay in our homes so we can stay your neighbors, workers, customers, and friends,” she told the council during the public‑comment portion of the meeting.

Myers described frequent water and power outages, broken street lights, collapsing garages originally built before federal HUD standards and tree failures that she said endanger homes and public safety. She and other residents told the…