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Residents urge council to protect mobile-home parks from redevelopment
Summary
Multiple residents and a tenant group asked the council to preserve mobile-home parks, citing displacement risk for seniors and low‑income residents. Council asked staff to return with options, including a possible overlay similar to Clark County's approach.
Tenants and longtime residents pressed the council to take steps to preserve manufactured-home communities after notices that a local mobile-home park was listed for sale. Colleen Eubanks and other residents described organizing a tenant group to protect affordability and stability and warned that rising land values and investor acquisitions threaten senior residents on fixed incomes.
Councilmember McCoy asked for staff to pursue options; he and others suggested an overlay or MHP (manufactured-home park) district modeled on Clark County safeguards. The council gave consensus direction for staff to prepare recommendations for the Aug. 17 meeting. Mark Herzig and staff noted state law limits (including separation between lease/rent terms and local land-use tools) and said any local approach must be consistent with the Growth Management Act and state statutes.
Why it matters: Manufactured-home communities provide a large share of unsubsidized affordable housing for seniors and low‑income households in the region. Tenants asked the city to consider short-term protections to preserve housing stability while staff evaluates legal pathways and potential impacts on comprehensive plan obligations.
