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Kenmore moves to protect manufactured-home communities as land values rise
Summary
Kenmore staff say the city has pursued rezoning and an overlay to reduce the risk of redeveloping manufactured-home parks—nearly 300 units across six communities—because rising land values threaten a core source of affordable housing.
Kenmore officials say the city has taken steps to preserve manufactured-home communities—an important source of lower-cost housing—by rezoning and creating restrictions intended to reduce the likelihood that park land is sold and redeveloped.
"Kenmore does have quite a few manufactured home communities," Todd Hall, the city's principal planner in community development, said. He said the city is "one of the few communities in North King County with a significant number of manufactured homes,"…
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