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taken is as follows: Justification Project/Units Action Failing septic systems • Mobile home park 6 M1-11P/55 Spaces Approved • Individual lot 1 Lot/1 Unit Approved Subdivision approval • Approval time 1 Lot/l Unit Denied • Unit moved 1 Lot/l Unit Approved Temporary housing • Damaged unit 1 Lot/l Unit Approved Other • Loan delay 1 Lot/1 Unit Denied • Time/finances 1 Lot/1 Unit Denied ISSUE: An exception request was considered which involved a failing septic system on an individual lot. Because of the situation, it was necessary for an elderly couple to move their mobile home to another location,requiring them to pay the impact fee.The person who rented them the lot where they originally lived could have replaced the unit without being charged a fee.However, the high cost to provide a septic field deterred him from locating another unit on the site.He granted permission for the elderly couple to use his exception;e.g.,he transferred his exception to another party. Although the exception was approved in this case,the"transfer"question is not addressed in the ordinance. If such situations are deemed appropriate exceptions, an ordinance amendment is warranted. ISSUE: Of all the exception requests considered to date, the most time consuming to explain and/or process have been those associated with mobile home parks. Several owners have cited other reasons for controlling the flow of units in and out of a park (other than failing septic systems). One reason cited more than any other was the desire to locate desirable tenants in the parks. The owners noted that it is time consuming as well as expensive to remove undesirable tenants,and,once removed,they have been deliberately selective to avoid such situations in the future. Another reason cited by the park owners is the desire not to end up with failing septic systems.Some parks have spaces which are served by individual systems as well as community systems.Park owners have deliberately left some spaces vacant for a limited time period or been very selective in the size (number of bedrooms) of the home to avoid overtaxing individual systems. Finally,park owners have indicated that mobile home parks are somewhat like apartment complexes; e.g.,vacancy rates vary from one year to the next,and there is no real way of knowing whether the park will be near capacity or left with many vacant spaces. These situations as well as the administrative time associated with processing mobile home park requests(and replacement units in general)suggest a return to the original intent of the ordinance; e.g., essentially a "grandfather" provision. One exception is noted,though,and it is the need to establish some time limit on vacant lots or spaces.Five years prior to the effective date of the Annual Report 8