Diamondville council advances Ordinance 495 to strip mobile home parks from conditional use in commercial zones

Diamondville — The Diamondville Town Council voted Feb. 16 to approve on second reading Ordinance 495, which would amend the town code to remove mobile home parks as a conditionally permitted use within commercial zoning districts. Council Member Robert Sawaya moved the ordinance, Council Member Sherrol Sloan seconded, and the motion carried with all voting aye, the transcript shows.

The action advances Ordinance 495 to the next procedural step; the text of the ordinance and its anticipated effective date were not stated during the meeting. Council Member Casey Clark later motioned to move a proposed Title 1 into ordinance form for the standard three-reading process; Council Member Sawaya seconded and that motion also passed with all voting aye.

Supporters and opponents did not speak during the meeting's public comment period, and no detailed findings or staff reports about projected impacts on zoning, property owners or mobile home residents were presented on the record. The council did not record individual roll-call votes in the publicly provided transcript, only that all present voted in favor.

The governing body conducted the ordinance actions as part of its unfinished business agenda. No amendments to Ordinance 495 were recorded in the transcript, and the council did not set a final adoption date at this meeting. The council scheduled no public hearings on Ordinance 495 during the session and did not provide a fiscal or demographic impact statement in the record.

The council adjourned at 7:30 p.m.; Mayor Eric Backman presided.