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h discrimination against manufactured housing. There is manufactured housing in Lino Lakes and these dwellings are found in Rice Lake Estates and in Shenandoah 3rd Addition. In both instances the manufactured housing has the appearance of traditional stick -built houses. The total number of these dwellings is less than 100. Lino Lakes has a specific zoning district for manufactured housing. The district has been removed however from the draft zoning ordinance by the city's planning. agency and final city council action is pending at this time. The zoning district was used once with poor results and the owner -developer asked for a rezoning to a planned unit development district. The city's experience shows the best course of action is to integrate manufactured and stick -built housing provided all minimum standards are met. There is one mobile home park in Lino Lakes. It is located on the T.H. 49 in the very southwest corner of the city and has approximately 70 lots. Most of Lino Lakes is served by the Centennial School District. The number of mobile homes in that district (including Circle Pines, Lexington, and part of Blaine) approaches a total of 1500. The school district quite simply needs more tax base and fewer students. The tax levy of the school has reached the point where brokers are finding difficulty in selling real estate within district boundaries. If there were even a place where "tax base planning" was beneficial it's in the Centennial School District. Because of this tax situation expansion of mobile home parks (and other land uses returning relatively small amounts of property tax dollars) should not be permitted. Property Taxes: For the 20 year period covered by the 1960's and 1970's there were a lot of bad things said about tax base planning. There is probably even some case law where zoning decisions of local governments were overturned because the actions were "exclusionary" or based simply on permitting whatever land use returned the most in property taxes and disregarding other property rights. Presently the Minneapolis Citizens League has determined that owners of an average 180,000 dwelling in Lino Lakes would pay the ninth highest property taxes of all the cities and townships they surveyed in the seven county metropolitan area. There are several reasons for this. First, the wetlands, lakes, regional park, and extensive freeway system (518 acres by itself) use 42 per cent of Lino Lakes land area. This unproductive land - in terms of tax payments - makes the provision of city services expensive. For example in cities such as Fridley and Robbinsdale and Richfield the snowplow and police can serve 1,000 residents much quicker than in Lino Lakes. The barriers of two freeways, and a 2700 acre Page 9