HomeMy WebLinkAboutP&Z MINUTES OCTOBER 19, 1982 (NEWSPAPER)A committee appointed by the Rex-
burg City Council to hear appeals from
city residents living in single-wide mobile
homes will hold a meeting Oct. 28 to
make final recommendations to the
council about whether the residents •will
have to move to mobile home parks.
The Rexburg Mobile Home Appeals
Board met in September and October to
hear appeals from about 20 residents
requesting to keep their mobile homes
where they are:
City Councilman IViorgan Garner, the
chairman of the appeals board, told the
council at its first October. meeting that
each board member will give a written
opinion on each appeal at the Oct.. 28
board- meeting. Then the board will
submit its recommendations. to the
council.
The residents who appeared before the
-- ,peals board represent about 40 percent
'~e people the city contacted about
noving their homes to mobile .home
parks. .
In.August the city sent a letter to about
50 residents who. live in single-wide
mobile homes telling them they had until
July 1983 to move their homes to mobile
home parks.
The letter exempted retired city
residents from having to relocate white
they still were alive but did not extend the
exemptian to heirs or people purchasing
the mobile homes or the property on
which the homes were located.
It pointed out that since the 1976
Teton Dam flood, the City Council had
granted yearly permits to mobile home
owners on a temporary basis but no
longer intended to do that.
Theletter said Rexburg resident.-living
in single-wide mobile homes could appeal
the city's order with .the mobile home
appeals board.
Most of the people who appealed
having to relocate live in the north and
west sections of Rexburg. Last year the .
council and the Rexburg Planning and
Zoning Commission considered
designating parts of those sections as
areas where mobile homes could be
placed.
But the idea was dropped after
residents living in standard-built homes in
the areas protested.
Minutes of the appeals board hearings.
say the residents appealing the city's
decision to move single-wide mobile
homes into mobile-home parks had a "
variety of reasons for seeking to stay
where they are.
Some of them lived in zones designated
_ commercial or R-3 and may comply with
city ordinances. Some said they did not
know they had to renew city permits
annually and had built additions to their
mobile homes. Others said it would cost
about .$1,000 to move and they did not
have the money.
Last year the council adopted amobile-
home ordinance which declared the 1976
Teton Dam emergency over and
amended a 1974 ordinance which
restricted mobile homes to mobile-home
parks.
The amended ordinance allowed
double-wide mobile homes in R-2, R-3
and commercial zones to stay in-the city
as long. as they were- placed on per-
manent, masonry foundations and
complied with zoning regulations for the
zones in-which they were located.
The ordinance also created the appeals
board, which consists of a member of the
City. Council, a member of the zoning
commission, a lawyer and two residents .
chosen at large -one of whom had to
live in a mobile home.
Besides Garner, the appeals board
members are Leonard Longhurst of the
zoning commission, Assistant Madison
County Prosecuting Attorney Dean
balling and Berniece Ricks and Grace
Jones the at-large members.
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