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PUBLIC HEARING, CHAPEL. HILL, N. C. - <br /> OCTOBER , 1977 <br /> FROM: JANE T. GAEDE, M. D. and a group of Concerned Citizens <br /> TO: ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD MEMAERS <br /> SUBJECT: 0 SCRIMINATION, MOBILE HOMES <br /> My rem irks tonight are confined only to individual mobile homes on <br /> individual ly owned lots. <br /> The town of.-Chapel Hit is currently res onsible anning and <br /> zoning area measuring roughly twenty square miles. Chapel Hill is asking <br /> the County ommissione -or an a-C"dFf 1ona1 sixteen s Q u r mile_ ^ n�ng <br /> jurisdiction. <br /> The pr sent C el Hill Zoning Ordinance, originally passed in March <br /> of <br /> _L9.55-witi amendments in 1974, i_�_blatantI discriminatory in regard to <br /> individual obile homes on individually wn d lots. eordinance_six_s- <br /> cri _j� ng in ivi ua mo i e homes to . � and then <br /> on top of at does not even provic�o uare inc�of . rict R-7 for <br /> individual obile homes in the whole ten uare aver <br /> urisdit.ion. Thus Cha el 7H 11 has a �ve�ar-banned <br /> ape�1 <br /> —_ _•- <br /> indivi„dual obile homes in its entire twen ile tannin area. <br /> Yet in the ear 6 mobile homes ceoune o f th e building <br /> permits issued in Chapel Hill Townshi . That's almost half' of the new <br /> home starts in Chapel Hi l Township in 1976. <br /> So let's face it: what the town of Chapel dill actually is doing is <br /> di s i a �e�'ami 1 i es This, is a key <br /> issue. Chapel Hill is saying: "Let's keep Chapel Hill the little elite <br /> community that it is. ” — --�- <br /> Now what does Oran e County allow in its planning area? Orange <br /> County trea . _individual mobile homes i e any other single-family <br /> res' nce. The Coon oes no iscrimina e, e n o —~ <br /> egre ate. The County r re �n zes t at�ind�ividual mobile o re <br /> si7n"�"�1� _�_e-family dwellings. It's as simp a as at, And the County is <br /> right. Als t e r Offi e, with its expertise in matters <br /> of a g sal , recd nizes that individual mobile homes individual—lots <br /> lots <br /> are the Sam as site built homes and they-t ere ore assess�an a_ x Wiese <br /> individual mobile homes the same as site built homes. They are taxed as <br /> r_Qj e, o ire omen situated on rent-e -lMoU`sin mobile home parks <br /> in Orange C unty are taxed as personal property and depreciated annually <br /> just like automobiles . <br /> How mar ° dividual mobile homy owners are in the den <br /> square s of extended zoning area that Chapel Hill wants tq acq_uire? <br /> One survey indicates that there are over 500 mobile home owners with a <br /> CII42RI Hill Eai address. This is only the Chapel Hill Post Office <br /> and does notinclude those in the extended area being served by the <br /> Durham Post Office. <br /> If the resent Chapel Hill Ton_ Ordi the <br /> three mile p oposed zoning area all the mobile homes therein would <br /> became nQn-conforming and future mobile hones would be effectively <br /> banner) ,•"_"__�._. ---�--.......�_ -� ` <br />