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Board told mobile home park rules will be revised; inspectors cite water and wastewater complexity
Summary
The health department will redraft the 2004 manufactured/mobile home park rules to clarify expansion, permit revocation and water/sewage requirements after staff reported challenges with older parks, groundwater wells and hundreds of annual inspections.
Health Director Lillian Koontz and OSWP Director Randy Swicegood told the Board of Health on June 2 that the department will revise the countys manufactured/mobile home park rules (effective Oct. 1, 2004) to modernize language and clarify enforcement steps.
Swicegood told the board that OSWP oversees about 260 mobile home parks and that inspectors face recurring issues with older parksshared wastewater systems and records that predate modern permitting. He said the department sometimes encounters mass system failure potential because multiple units rely on a single system, and that landlord-tenant dynamics can complicate enforcement when owners delay repairs. "You are also dealing with a landlord tenant situation. The tenant is angry, because the landlord is not fixing the problem," Swicegood said.
The department plans to draft changes and bring them back to the board for review; County Attorney Adam Jones warned it will take time to ensure statutory requirements are followed and that a public hearing will likely be required for significant changes. Koontz said the goal is to have draft revisions ready for BOH review by December.
