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.sue-, • 13 <br />MEMO TO: MAYOR AND CITY COU CI <br />FROM: CLERK-ADMINISTRATO <br />DATE: FEBRUARY 14, 1989 <br />SUBJECT: MOBILE HOME PARK EMERGENCY PLANS <br />The 1988 Legislature adopted legislation which requ*.;;z, .,e <br />following. <br />"Manufactured home park with 10 or more manufactured <br />homes, licensed prior to March 1, 1938, shall provide <br />a safe place of shelter for park residents or a plan <br />for the evacuation of park residents to a safe place <br />of zheltcr ;t,i^ reasonable distance of the park <br />foruseby park residents in times of severe weather, <br />including tornados and high winds. A shelter or <br />evacuation plan must be approved by the municipality <br />by March 1, 1989. The municipality may require the <br />park owner to construct a shelter if it determines <br />that a safe place of shelter is not available within <br />a reasonable distance from the park." <br />So fai the Ci.f :ias received approved emergency plans from <br />Towns Edge and Centennial Mobile Home Parks prior to this <br />legislation. Mounds View Mobile Home Park did not have an <br />emergency plan in place and, therefore, was required by the <br />legislation to prepare one. Since law now allows the City <br />to determine whether or not a shelter is required, staff is <br />bringing this matter to you for your consideration at this <br />time. <br />It has been the past practice of the City of Mounds View to <br />make available to residents of mobile home parks in the City <br />the lower level of City Hall which is automatically opened <br />at any time that severe weather warnings are announced by <br />the National Weather Service. In the past this has worked <br />well for us but as you know the City has avoided any major <br />tornados for several years. Whether o: not such an <br />arrangement would work when a severe tornado hits the <br />community is a question that no one could answer until it <br />would happen. <br />Staff is currently requesting direcr:on from the Council as <br />to the acceptability of the emergency plan submitted and <br />proposed by Mounds View Mobile Home Park and determinuticn <br />as to your position regarding our authority to require a <br />safe place of shelter be constructed by the park owner at <br />the mobile home park pursuant to the provisions of M.S. <br />327.20, Subdivision 2, (7). <br />DFP/MJS <br />