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Colonial Village Park 2075 Rustad Lane • Mounds View, MN 55112 (612) 786-3498 1111 CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT APPLICATION REMARKS December 6, 1994 1 . The applicant requests permission to establish up to seven (7) model manufactured home sites (density not to exceed one (1) manufactured home per lot) within Colonial Village Park. 2. The reason for the request is so that the quality of housing stock within the community can be upgraded. Upgrade opportunities occur when there is resident turnover, or when others from outside the park wish to move into better housing at Colonial Village Park or when a current resident wishes to install a new home within the community. 3. The entire community benefits when new homes designed and built to current standards of U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) replace • homes built as early as 1969 before the federal standards were adopted (July 1976) . Colonial Village Park construction began in late '60's and continued in early '70's, so many of the homes remaining in the park now are about 25 years old. 4. New homes would be fully set up on lots as they become vacant. Each would be blocked and leveled to Mn Building Codes standards, connected to water, sewer, gas and electricity. Each would have foundation • enclosures (skirting) installed. 5. The home would be marketed to remain on the site where they are already installed. 6. Having an attractive new home in the block often inspires others to acquire a new home of their own or at least fix up their older home. Beauty can be contagious. Another factor, hard to measure, is that a higher quality home will attract homeowners of higher quality. Thus the City of Mounds View benefits. 7. Trade-ins? Some of the current residents who purchase new homes would use their existing home as a down payment, thus creating a "trade-in" . The "trade-in" would be sold in place by the applicant if it is of high quality or could be made to be of a higher quality. If the trade-in is not of high quality then the trade-in would be removed from the community by the applicant, creating a vacancy onto which a new home could be installed. 8. The side plan indicates three lots available now for upgrading. This method of community improvement is being done successfully in Inver Grove Heights at the Emerald Hills Village community. All comments received about the venture have been complimentary. William E. Liggett General Partner, Colonial Village Park PLANNAP1 .CV