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HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, III <br />ATTORNEY GENERAL <br />STATE OF MNNESOTA <br />OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL <br />ST. PAUL 55155 <br />December 8, 1989 <br />HAND DELIVERED <br />Mr. David Ornstein <br />City Attorney <br />City of Bloomington <br />2215 W. old Shakopee Road <br />Bloomington, MN 55431-3096 <br />Dear Mr. Ornstein: <br />ADDRESS REPLY TO: <br />52$ PARK STREET <br />S 200 <br />ST. PAUL, MN 55103 <br />TELEPHONE: <br />Medicaid Fraud (612) 297-1048 <br />Solicitor General (612) 297-1050 <br />This letter is in response to your November 11 1989, letter <br />to Attorney General Humphrey. In your letter, you explain that <br />Minnesota Statutes 9 327C.095 (1988) authorizes a municipality to <br />adopt an ordinance requiring payment of compensation to residents <br />of a manufactured home park if that park is closed or converted <br />to another use. The statute permits a municipality to require <br />the owner of a manufactured home park to pay the reasonable <br />relocation costs incurred by a manufactured home owner. Further, <br />the statute permits a municipality to require that other parties <br />involved in the park closing pay additional compensation to the <br />residents. <br />Out of concern about the financial impact on residents of <br />actual and potential closings of manufactured home parks in <br />Bloomington, the City Council enacted Ordinance No. 89-57 <br />pursuant to the authority granted by Minn. Stat. S 327C.095. The <br />ordinance requires park owners to pay reasonable relocation costs <br />to residents if the park is closed or converted to another use. <br />The ordinance also requires the purchaser of a park to pay to a <br />resident the estimated market value of their home, as determined <br />by the City Assessor and the resident's most recent property tax <br />statement, if the resident cannot relocate within a 25 mile <br />radius and tenders title to the home to the park purchaser. <br />Finally, the ordinance provides that the total compensation paid <br />to displaced residents may not exceed twenty percent of the <br />purchase price of the park. <br />Based on these facts, you ask the following questions: <br />1. Whether Minn. Stat. 5 327C.095 (1988), which <br />authorizes a municipality to require owners of <br />manufactured home parks to pay displaced residents <br />reasonable relocation costs and to require other parties <br />to pay additional compensation to such displaced <br />AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />80S <br />