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Planning board backs rezoning to protect a small mobile‑home park
Summary
The Planning Board recommended rezoning 1.68 acres to a Manufactured Home Community district to make an existing six‑unit mobile‑home park conforming and to encourage reinvestment; the board’s recommendation (6–0) will be forwarded to Town Council.
The Woodfin Planning Board of Adjustment voted May 5 to recommend rezoning roughly 1.68 acres from R10/Residential to a Manufactured Home Community (MHC) zoning district to make an existing mobile‑home park conforming.
Ricky Hurley, town planning staff, told the board the park contains six homes (five single‑wides and one double‑wide) and that the owner has expressed interest in adding a seventh unit. Hurley said the rezoning would align the town’s future‑land‑use map with existing conditions and provide a path for owners to invest in and maintain the park. “It would make them a straight up legit use,” Hurley said, noting the change is intended to protect naturally occurring affordable housing.
Property owner Cassandra Childs addressed the board, saying she has invested in necessary repairs and wants the security of a conforming zoning designation before adding another home. “I want to add another home to the park,” Childs said, and described $70,000–$80,000 in recent repairs to an existing double‑wide.
A nearby resident, Terry Bowers Hoffman, urged the town to use the rezoning process to improve stewardship and code enforcement, citing examples of poorly maintained units and illegal dumping that she said had affected neighborhood property values.
The board found the request reasonable and consistent with the town’s comprehensive plan and voted 6–0 to recommend rezoning and an amendment to the future‑land‑use map; the recommendation will go to Town Council, which makes the final determination.
