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Oro Valley residents review first-draft housing plan; group asks staff to rework manufactured-housing language
Summary
At a virtual Oro Valley resident working group meeting, staff presented first-draft goals, policies and actions for the town's 10-year plan. Participants broadly accepted the drafts but urged removing or heavily revising manufactured-homes language, clarifying apartment siting rules, and tightening design and implementation details.
Malini Sims, a principal planner for the town of Oro Valley, opened a virtual resident working group session to review first-draft goals, policies and actions for the town's 10-year housing plan. Sims said the drafts are a first effort that will be refined and circulated for further review.
The meeting centered on whether to include manufactured homes in the town's action list. "Manufactured homes did come up at the very end of our conversation," Sims said, explaining staff was asking the group whether Oro Valley should explore them as a housing type. Multiple participants pushed back, saying manufactured homes risk poor fit with local design expectations and could undermine public approval of the plan.
"I think the manufactured homes probably isn't one we should look at," said participant Sue Allen, citing limited land and community preferences for single-family housing. Bayar Vela, the town's planning and zoning manager, explained the code currently restricts traditional…
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