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Planning board sustains homeowner's appeal, lifts stop-work order in dispute over modular home
Summary
The Boyle County/City planning and zoning board voted 4–3 to sustain Emily Behr’s administrative appeal of a Junction City notice of violation, finding the evidence supported that her unit was modular and allowing her to resume work pending local site approvals.
The Boyle County/City planning and zoning board of adjustments on a 4–3 vote sustained an administrative appeal by homeowner Emily Behr and overturned a Junction City notice of violation and county stop‑work order, allowing the modular home at 111 Simpson Lane to remain and construction to continue subject to required inspections.
Appellant counsel Eric Eaton told the board the unit was a modular home, not a HUD‑regulated manufactured/mobile home, and presented permits, manufacturer sales paperwork and a state review letter from the Kentucky Division of Building Code Enforcement showing HBC reviewed the model and found it consistent with the Kentucky building/residential code. "No HUD seal has been issued to this house or will ever be issued to this house," Eaton said, arguing that under the joint ordinances a HUD label is required for a structure to qualify as a HUD‑regulated manufactured home.
A state witness backed Eaton’s characterization.…
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