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league ' <br />I <br /> <br /> TO: City Managers, Administrators, Clerks <br />I (Please pass a copy along to your city planner or zoning administrator) <br /> FROM: Duke Addicks, Legislative Counsel <br /> i Cathy Quig§le, Research Assistant <br /> RE: Mobile/Manufactured Housing <br /> <br />I Minnesota Laws 1982, Chapter 490 amending M.S. 462.357, Subd. 1 changes the Municipal <br />i Planning Act to prohibit the exclusion of mobile/manufactured homes from cities. (The <br /> complete text of the law as amended is enclosed. New language is underlined, old <br /> language is stricken.) These new provisions are not effective until August 1, 198.2. <br /> Until then, any manufactured homes are subject to the zoning ordinance .presently ~n <br />I effect ina city. <br /> <br /> Pursuant ~co this new legislation, by August 1, 1982, cities may wish to amend their <br /> <br />i zoning ordinances to establish the following: <br /> <br />1o design standards for dwellings in residential districts such as: minimum width, <br /> minimum square footage, siding material, roof lines, type of foundation requirements; <br />I 2o residential district(s) in which only dwellings meeting the Uniform Building Code <br /> are permitted; . <br />m 3. residential district(s) in which manufactured homes as defined by M.S. 327.31-327.35 <br /> (not required by law to meet the Unifom Building Code) are permitted as well as site <br />m built homes which meet the Uniform Building Code, i.e. a mixed district; <br /> 4o mobile home park district(s) for those mobile homes unable to meet design standards <br /> in residential districts. <br />m There is some confusion over whether the establishment of the above mentioned design <br /> standards is now the only legal method of regulating the location of manufactured <br />m homes within a city. The Michigan Supreme Court held in Robinson Township v. Donald <br /> that <br /> Knoll, 302 NW 2d 146 {Mich. 1981), a municipality's exclusion of mobile homes <br />I (OVER) <br /> <br />300 hanover building, 480 cedar, street, saint paul, minnesota 55101 (812) 222-2BE)1 <br /> <br /> <br />