Owner of local mobile‑home parks criticizes county enforcement as commissioners consider zoning changes

Jordan Blackshear, who said he owns roughly 33 mobile‑home parks statewide and two local parks, told the board he has spent “several hundred thousand dollars” repairing properties but now faces citations and litigation tied to recent code enforcement activity. Blackshear said his interactions with staff became confrontational and recounted that during a phone exchange County Manager Thomas Weaver told him, "his words to me were, look, you can just go fuck yourself." He said a magistrate citation is pending and that legal action is ongoing.

Commissioners and staff described a two‑part approach to address manufactured homes and placement rules. County Manager Thomas Weaver outlined proposed zoning changes to remove conditional use permits for manufactured homes on Rural Residential (RR) and Agricultural (A‑1) parcels (subject to minimum‑lot rules), and to create a new MHU‑2 zoning for mobile‑home subdivisions with standards for lot size, road paving and setbacks. Commissioner Jason Frost said the board’s motion to pause new placements was intended to “pause and take a step back and look at what we need to do to fix some things that I feel are broken with our permitting processes and with the bylaws that surround manufactured homes.”