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PLANNING COMMISSION/COUNCIL MEETING, DECEMBER 13, 1982 -4- 3. MANFACTURED HOUSING - A. Review Policies 'and 'Pos-s'ibilities'for New . firma' -7_v Mni 9 r' vmn,6 'n're+rrr,+ - Stephen Taylor and Mike Ahrens, Cimarron Park owners, Willard Morton, developer Tartan Meadows, Dick Stockstead, developer Midland Meadows, and several Cimarron residents were present for discussion on the new ordinance. Chairman Michels opened the meeting to questions and comments from the audience. --Judy Clausen, 63 Cimarron - No specific questions - favors having an attendent on duty, in a mobile home park, and on the site 24 hours a day. --Whittaker - this is one of the items discussed in the amendment to the Mobile Home Code. --aim Beaver, 664 Cimarron - C,imarrbn.. Sales - sells manfactured housing, new and the units in Cimarron. Interested in seeing an ordinance that would allow manfactured housing in Lake Elmo. Referred Council and Commission to the Attorney General's opinion on manfactured housing. The manfactured housing industry is asking for manfactured housing to be allowed in any area as stick built housing. Mr. Beaver offered his services to work with the City and the services of the Mn. Manfactured Housing Association to provide input for the type of housing that would be allowed. He explained the different types of manfactured housing would like to see Lake Elmo permit this type of housing and feels there will be a'lot of interest. --Whittaker - asked Mr. Beaver's opinion on the Cottage Grove Ordinance. --Jim Beaver - finds the ordinance restrictive to permitting this type of housing outside of an area not exclusively provided for manfactured housing. May find people want to put a manfactured unit on a part of the family farm - the Cottage Grove Ordinance limits or would not permit this. Has seen manfactured housing accepted in single family areas - would caution against a small lot,•no smaller lot than any other house would be permitted to have. Would caution against a junky appearance. Factory built houses can be built by two standards - the Uniform Building Code and the Manfactured Home Standard. The UBC standard is what stick built homes have to meet. -Eder - his understanding that the same building code is __7appl.ied tor: conventionally built„homessas is applied to mobile or manfactured homes. Mr. Beaver agreed with this statement. --Whittaker - one distinction is that there is manfactured housing that meets the State Building Code (UBC) and there ..,is manfactured housing that meets the Federal Standard. There is a difference between these two standards. Mr. Beaver is saying that mobile (manfactured)homes'are built as well as a stick built home, but they do fall under dif- ferent codes - State permits both types of housing, but one or the other code has to be met. Wausau Homes are a type of manfactured house that has been built throughout the City, These are distinguished from the manfactured housing defined in the statute thathave to meet the federal standard. As defined in the new statute, manfactured housing could include double wide or standard mobile homes through Wassau homes.