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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1984-07-12 - Special City CouncilEM MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, HELD ON THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1984 - 7:00 P.M. A public hearing held by the City Council of the City of Stephenville, Texas, for the purpose of hearing comments on the proposed amendments to the Mobile Home Park Ordinance, was called to order by the Mayor with the following members present: Mayor: David Clayton Floyd Gordon Councilmembers: Ray Reynolds William G. Brede James L. McSwain and with the following members absent: Charles- Riggins, G. A. Swindle, Larry Hammett, and Larry Tatum. City Administrator Kurt J. Ackermann, City Secretary Joyce Pemberton, Building Inspector Gary Nabors, P & I Clerk Betty Chew, and several .mobile home park owners. Mayor Clayton turned the meeting over to Councilman Brede, chairman of the Mobile Home Park Ordinance Committee for an opening statement and introduction to the proposed, amendments to the Ordinance. There were ten mobile home park owners present and each one had received a copy of the proposed ordinance by certified mail. Councilman Brede stated that the committee had worked approximately 21/2 years on the Mobile Home Park Ordinance. On May 4, 1982, the Council approved the Mobile Home Park Ordinance. The park owners and city staff found this ordinance hard to understand and enforce. In reviewing this ordinance, the commit- tee and staff found some things they felt should be changed. Having made the changes, they felt it would be to everyone's benefit to discuss the proposed changes and find an ordinance that the owners and city staff could live with. Mayor Clayton advised that the purpose of this meeting was to discuss any part of this ordinance that the owners and /or Council had questions about. If there is any part of the ordi- nance anyone has questions about, get to those first and maybe they will answer others. Mr. Don Moore, owner of Stephenville Mobile Home Park, 855 W. Washington St., asked what the purpose or intent; what are the goals; what is the Council wanting to accomplish by putting this ordinance out? Councilman Brede and City Administrator Kurt Ackermann, in answer to Mr. Moore's questions, said that the original ordinance of 1969 had become outdated as the city grew and they felt the ordinance should be updated. They had contacted six cities approximately the size of Stephenville and received copies of their mobile home park ordinances. They took portions of these ordinances and incorporated them into an ordinance for Stephenville. One of the considerations given was the way interest rates on mortgages was escalating they felt more people would be going to mobile homes and in an effort to try to get in front of rather than try to catch up to the times they considered trying to revise the old ordinance of 1969. The new ordinance would treat new mobile home parks coming into the city similar to a new housing subdivision that would have good streets, safe water, sewer, electrical, and gas hook -ups. Charlotte Zimmerman, Vice President of the Texas Manufactured Housing Association, stated she was attending the meeting to represent the Association and one of the mobile home 1 X90 park owners, a member of the Association. Ms. Zimmerman said she felt most of the mobile, home park owners present were concerned with how the existing parks would be "grandfathered" in. Counciman Brede cover all the mobile ordinance is enacted makes any changes of then they come under park. The owners wi sewer, and gas codes advised that the "grandfather clause" would home parks in existence at the time the on a Non- Conforming License. If the owner any kind that is indicated in the ordinance, the conforming obligations to operate their L1 need to comply with the electrical, water, to insure safety and health for their clients. Mr. Don Moore, owner /operator of Stephenville Mobile Home Park, 855 W. Washington St., addressed the Council on behalf of himself and the other mobile home park owners present. Mr. Moore discussed, in detail, Non - Conforming License, which pertained to the existing mobile home parks and those por- tions of MOBILE HOME PARKS AND MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISIONS which, he felt, would also affect the existing mobile -home parks. After a very lengthy discussion, the Council asked that the amendments agreed upon by.the Council and the park owners be incor- porated into the Mobile Home Park Subdivision Ordinance to be considered by the Council in the August, 1984 meeting. There being no other business, the Mayor adjourned the meeting at 10:10 p.m. a=3J 6�1 ATTEST: David Clayton ayor ty Secretary