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Board considers tightening mobile‑home age standard and conditional inspections for moved units
Summary
Scotland County planning staff and board members discussed raising the permissible age limit on relocated manufactured homes (currently tied to HUD 1976 standard) and using conditional‑use permitting and professional inspections for older units; commissioners will ask the board for a recommendation.
Scotland County planning staff and members of the Planning and Zoning Board discussed potential changes to the county’s standard for allowable age and condition of relocated manufactured homes and how the county should handle permits for older units.
The board noted the current cutoff in the county ordinance ties to HUD’s 1976 manufactured‑home standards. Members reviewed neighboring counties’ approaches (for example, a county that uses a 1990 cutoff) and discussed recommending that Scotland County adopt an age‑based limit measured in years (one board member suggested a 30‑year threshold) combined with the option for conditional‑use permits requiring professional inspections.
Planning staff said that moving very old homes is often infeasible and that a conditional‑use process would allow the county to impose inspection and remediation requirements (electrical, plumbing, foundation) if an applicant seeks to relocate an older unit. The board discussed that any age limit must have a rational basis and that engineering inspections by licensed professionals could be required as a condition to issuance.
County commissioners plan to ask the planning board for a recommendation on the mobile‑home age and permit approach; the board was asked to review the current ordinance language and examples from neighboring counties before that discussion. No formal action or ordinance change was adopted at the meeting.
