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Commission debates status of manufactured‑home parks, neighborhood conservation on Dickinson Avenue
Summary
Commissioners and staff debated whether mobile‑home park areas should remain neighborhood conservation (to prevent reestablishment after abandonment) or be rezoned general residential, a change that could make such sites conforming and alter redevelopment potential.
A lengthy segment of the meeting centered on manufactured-home parks and how the Unified Development Code treats them after the rezoning to urban transition. Travis explained that the UDC made mobile-home parks existing nonconforming: they "can increase the number of homes as many sites as they have existing" but if a park 'ceases to exist as a mobile home park for a period of 12 months, then the use cannot be reestablished.' Commissioners discussed whether converting such areas to general residential would make them conforming and enable redevelopment that could displace existing uses.
Deborah Fortner and others urged preserving neighborhood character by retaining neighborhood‑conservation designations in places with long-standing manufactured‑home and mobile‑home parks. "If we switch it to general residential, it would be conforming," staff warned, and commissioners used that legal point to justify keeping several areas as neighborhood conservation to prevent replacement by denser subdivisions or different residential forms.
