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Enclosure #1 Council Members Mark A. Crabtree, Mayor M. Gene Teague, Vice-Mayor Bruce H. T. Dallas J. Ronald Ferrill Terry L. Roop Martinsville A CITY WITHOUT LIMITS Resolution Cio' Manager Earl B. Reynolds, Jr. City Attorney David B. Worthy Clerk of Council Johnathan B. Phillips WHEREAS, the Virginia Housing Study Commission's Manufactured Housing Subgroup has been directed by SJ437 to study manufactured houses as a way to promote affordable housing and has recommended the following proposed change in the Virginia Code: 15.2-2290.1 Certain manufactured homes deemed same as site built homes "Localities adopting and enforcing zoning ordinances under the provisions of this article shall provide that any new, multi-sectioned manufactured home on an individual lot and on a permanent foundation with masonry shirting shall be defined in all zoning ordinances as a single family dwelling, and shall be permitted in any zoning district that permits single family dwellings constructed to the Uniform Statewide Building Code, subject to development standards that are equivalent to those applicable to a site-built single family dwelling with the same or equivalent zoning districts." WHEREAS, on October 25th, 2001, the Manufactured Housing Subgroup of the Housing Study Commission voted 8-3 to recommend a revision of the Code of Virginia using said proposed language; and WHEREAS, said proposal would effectively require that manufactured homes be allowed in all zoning districts which currently allow single family dwellings; and WHEREAS, the City should retain the authority to decide how to accommodate and promote affordable housing within its jurisdiction as a local decision; and WHEREAS, said proposal would preempt local building code standards and local zoning authority and serve to erode the locality' s ability to make its own land use decisions; and WHEREAS, the City recognizes that manufactured housing serves a housing need, it maintains that housing type and location thereof should be a local decision and should not be governed by state mandate; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session assembled, November 27th, 2001, that it does firmly oppose proposed revisions to the Code of Virginia as presented by the Virginia Housing Commission's Manufactured Housing Subgroup. Attest: Johnathan B. Phillips, Clerk of Council Date Adopted 55 West Church Street P.O. Box 1112 Martinsville, VA 24114-1112 540-656-5180 540-656-5280 p^x www.ci.martinsville.va.us