The Erlanger City Council recorded a first reading on an ordinance to amend the city zoning code so that "qualified manufactured homes" are defined and treated the same as single-family detached dwellings, Council Attorney Mister Gatlin said during the Jan. 6 meeting.

Gatlin said the change is a response to Kentucky House Bill 160 and noted the planning commission — whose chair brought forward the amendment — held a public hearing on Dec. 4 and recommended the change unanimously. The ordinance would remove manufacture-homes as a separate use in Article 4 of the zoning ordinance and add a definition that conforms to the state statute, Gatlin said.

The council did not vote on the ordinance; Gatlin described the presentation as a first reading. Council members did not debate substantive amendments during the meeting. The first-reading designation means the ordinance will return for further consideration and any required subsequent readings before any adoption vote.

If adopted in later readings, the change would allow a manufactured home to be located on any residential lot where a stick-built single-family home is permitted, subject to the same construction and siting requirements that apply to conventional homes, according to Gatlin’s description of the amendment. The planning commission and city staff materials attached to the ordinance provide the text changes and the referenced state statute.