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THE ZONING REPORT For Planning and Zoning Professionals ISSN 0748-0083 VOL 12, NO 11 -- SEPT 9, 1994 -- Charles Reed, AICP, Editor/Publisher -- $58/year/subscription A COMPLETE CHfIIKLIST OF ZONING PROVISIONS FOR REEULATING MOBILE HOMES AND MANUFACIURfD HOMES (Part One of two parts) It takes two issues of The Zoning Report to discuss this topic. In this issue, Part One, we cover purposes and intents~ definitions, how mobile home parks and manufactured home sub- divisions are permitted in a community by zon- ing codes, uses allowed in mobile home parks and manufactured home subdivisions, and zon- ing bulk standards. In Part Two, which you receive in two weeks on September 23, we conclude our review of zoning bulk standards, then cover site develop- ment standards, and operation and maintenance of mobile home parks. Our checklist wiIl not fit your specific situa- ize a chapter on mobile home parks in your zoning code. Earlier categories in the checklist guide the review of later categories. When you read the checklist, you'll notice that we duplicate many items throughout the checklist. We repeat them in a different con- text in different subject categories. We prefer to do this, to offer complete listings for all items in each category. Make sure that your zoning and building in- spection staff~ public engineer, fire and police chiefs, wa~er and sewer department heads, and your legal counsel, review your drafts. You need to incorporate their ideas and suggestions tio.n.. Moreover, our terminology may .difffer' ~:.~nto your draft regulations and help them gain from yours. Many communities include many of an:;.updated understanding of the design and our checklist items in their housing code~.prop.- -- Construction standards of mobile/manufactured erty maintenance code, life safety or fire sa- homes and the gradually changing upgraded fety code, a separate mobile home or.dinane, e.t~image of them. Perhaps, as a first step, you the subdivision code and land devetop'n~ent may want to Xerox our checklist and pass it code. along to them for their review and comment. Our checklist includes more items than you would ever need in your community's mobile home and manufactured development regula- tions. Zoning offices often regulate many of our checklist items as office rules rather than as provisions within codes. The checklist follows a logical sequence of categories.~ as how you generally might organ- You may want to discuss your semifinal drafts informally with your CPC and elected board. This discussion would help familiarize them with the technicalities they need to know about how mobile home parks and manufactured subdivisions are regulated, and the potential that manufactured homes in quality develop- ments can provide as affordable housing in your community. 1994 by Charles Reed ........ 1404 N. State Road 7, Suite 269; Margate, Florida 33063 -- Mailing address: PO Box 6529; Margate, Florida 33063 --