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Anchorage staff outline ordinance to broaden relocatable dwelling options, ease repairs in manufactured housing parks
Summary
Planning staff described AO 2025-112, which defines “relocatable dwelling units,” allows more housing types and repairs in existing manufactured housing parks, moves some approvals from conditional use to site-plan review, and expands permitted uses on public/institution (PLI) land; no Assembly vote occurred at the work session.
Daniel McKenna Foster, Long Range Planning, told the work session the relocatable dwelling unit proposal known in meeting materials as AO 2025-112 is intended to “clear up confusion” about mobile homes, manufactured homes, tiny homes and modular units and to introduce a new definition, the relocatable dwelling unit (RDU).
The ordinance would rename the existing category to relocatable dwelling unit (RDU) and relocatable dwelling unit community (RDUC), make it easier to repair or replace existing units in manufactured housing parks, reduce minimum lot sizes within existing parks, change some park approvals from conditional use to site-plan review, and expand where RDUs may be placed in PLI (public lands, institutions) zones. "This ordinance is doing a lot," McKenna Foster said, summarizing staff work with building services, fire safety and other municipal offices.
Why it matters: proponents said the code currently prevents replacement of aging factory-built units because the municipal code requires HUD-certified mobile homes of the factory…
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