The City of Prattville Planning Commission declined on Nov. 20, 2025 to recommend rezoning about 18 acres of Candlestick Mobile Home Park from B‑2 (general business) to T‑3 (manufactured/mobile‑home park). The petitioner argued the change would align zoning with about 40 years of use, allow replacement of aging homes and support affordable housing.

A representative for the park said the community has operated as a manufactured‑home park since the 1980s and that the owners have invested in road and storm‑drain repairs with city cooperation. The petitioner told the commission the park contains 41 occupied homes and 111 vacant lots, and that rezoning would permit the owners to bring HUD‑compliant replacement homes into currently nonconforming lots.

“If these properties are rezoned to T‑3 … we would be required to come into conformance with the current zoning ordinance,” staff explained during the presentation; the petitioner said the rezoning was a technical correction to reflect longstanding use. The petitioner also listed recent joint work with city engineers on levee and storm‑drain repairs.

Several residents urged delay or opposed the change. John Lee Finnegan said the meeting packet was not available online before the hearing and asked that the commission postpone the matter, adding that the park’s current conditions are troubling: “I’m just appalled people have to live like that,” he said. The petitioner and representative said upgrades have begun and that rezoning would allow further improvements.

After commissioners questioned staff and the petitioner about acreage and occupancy (staff confirmed the site at roughly 56–56.74 acres and petitioner confirmed 41 occupied homes), the commission called for the question. By voice vote the chair announced, “Motion failed,” meaning the commission did not recommend the rezoning; the petitioner was told the matter would need to be brought back before the commission.

The resolution read into the record described the property at Randy Lane and South Memorial Drive and listed the petitioner; because the commission did not recommend the change, any further action would require the petitioner to refile or return with additional information. No formal vote tally with member names was recorded in the transcript. The commission closed the public hearing and moved on to the next agenda item.