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2. Roof Pitch <br />Ordinances that establish minimum roof pitch aimed at circomventing <br />the law and prohibiting manufactured homes in a community would <br />probably be unacceptable to the courts. If your ordinance contains <br />language that requires a minimum roof pitch for all residential <br />buildings, it should be examined to make sure that minimum roof <br />pitch does not exclude manufactured housing. Care should be taken <br />to relate any adoption of roof pitch standards to zoning concerns <br />because roof pitch is a construction standard handled by the building <br />code and not typically the zoning code. Transporting manufactured <br />housing under interstate bridges restricts roof pitch to just under <br />a 3/12 pitch. <br />3. Basements <br />As with the dimension standards, requirements for basements or storm <br />shelters must be applied without respect to the method of home con- <br />struction. If your ordinance now requires basements for stick built <br />single- family homes, the requirement would also apply to manufactured <br />homes. If your community permits slab construction for stick built <br />homes, it must also permit manufactured homes to be placed on slabs. <br />��.�-"T.�h�,�?a�y •Prohibi't; <br />If your zoning ordinance contains language that specifically prohibits <br />manufactured homes (or mobile homes) from locating in single - family <br />residential districts and /or permits them only in certain districts <br />(mobile home parks) your ordinance will need to be amended to bring <br />it into conformance with Minnesota Statutes. This is clarified by <br />the attached Attorney General's Opinion, issued November 10, 1982. <br />The 1982 law does not prohibit mobile home (manufactured housing) parks <br />or local ordinances that regulate such parks, but it does prohibit <br />language that would force all manufactured homes into such parks. <br />One effect of the 1982 law is likely to be a reduced need for mobile <br />home (manufactured home) park ordinances. Future development of <br />manufactured housing subdivision can now possibly be processed under <br />a city's PUD ordinance and subdivision regulations. <br />As a reminder, existing mobile home park ordinances and the statute <br />regarding those ordinances was not amended because of the need to <br />facilitate mobile homes constructed prior to June 15, 1976 that do <br />not have the HUD certification. Since there are still a large <br />number of pre -1976 units in good condition throughout the state, <br />cities will still have to have ordinances regarding their placement <br />location, etc. <br />2 0 <br />