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Machesney Park committee backs variances, limits lots to 40 to allow Rainbow Lane mobile home court to be rezoned
Summary
The Planning and Economic Development Committee voted 3–2 to forward a positive recommendation to rezone 9305 North Second Street to a Mobile Home District and to approve variances allowing existing mobile homes to remain, amending the proposal to limit the site to 40 lots; staff set conditions including inspections, a new fence, well testing and a
The Machesney Park Planning and Economic Development Committee voted on Nov. 3 to recommend approval of variances and a zoning map amendment that would allow an existing, decades-old mobile home court at 9305 North Second Street (Rainbow Lane) to become a conforming Mobile Home District — with a new condition limiting the site to 40 lots.
Staff told the committee the property has been a preexisting, nonconforming mobile home court since its annexation in 1983 and that code standards (including 20-foot spacing between units and a 6,000-square-foot-per-unit density requirement) make replacing or expanding units impossible without variances. "Our intention is not to eliminate this mobile home court," Planning Department staff said; staff recommended variances from several performance standards to allow existing structures to remain, subject to conditions including inspection of all structures, testing of the private well, installation of a new fence, and road…
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