Commission updates language to use ‘manufactured’ in place of 'mobile' home, affirms permitted use

The commission reviewed definitions for mobile/modular/tiny housing and agreed to update the code to use the modern term "manufactured homes" (the post-1974 HUD category) instead of the older 'mobile home' phrasing. Chair Malia Collins noted that the term better reflects current construction standards and will be updated in the draft definitions.

The draft language the commission discussed permits manufactured homes, modular homes and tiny houses as primary dwellings or accessory dwelling units in zoning districts that already allow residential dwellings, provided the units connect to utilities, have public-road access and meet zone-specific setbacks. Commissioners asked staff to incorporate the revised definition and to flag tiny houses on wheels that are registered as RVs so the code treats them consistently with RV or ADU rules where applicable.