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Fort Collins staff recommend performance‑based mobile‑home‑park licensing, manager certification and cost‑recovery powers
Summary
Staff presented a proposal to centralize oversight of mobile home parks through a performance‑based licensing program that would require manager certification, mandatory data reporting, and grant the city authority to abate hazardous conditions and recover costs from park owners.
City staff recommended that Fort Collins adopt a performance‑based mobile home park licensing program to expand enforcement tools over park owners and to prioritize urgent habitability and infrastructure concerns, staff said during a work session presentation Wednesday.
The proposal responds to structural differences between mobile home parks and other housing types: park infrastructure (streets, water lines, lighting) is typically privately owned and maintained by park owners, and residents lack the same neighborhood governance mechanisms available in some other housing types. JC Ward, a staff presenter, told council the city reviewed the distribution of complaints and found gaps in the city’s ability to directly mitigate private‑infrastructure problems: "For mobile home parks to have comparable outcomes with our other neighborhood types, we have to address these differences in regulation, enforcement, and oversight," Ward said.
Scope and priorities: staff said there are roughly 1,400 home sites in 10 mobile home parks inside the city limits; nine parks meet the state’s…
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