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2 - <br /> 3 <br /> Furthermore, even if there WE�s�.district to which in ' uval <br /> mobile mes would be restricts this would itself be blatant <br /> dicrim' ion .and curtailment of liberties now en -a ed <br /> of People urrently i vi ng under' Oran e Coin `� Y ^b -°usands <br /> g Y P ann�ng. <br /> The North Carolina Manufactured Housing Institute <br /> advises <br /> since April of 1,976 all mobile homes have been built to standards <br /> develaped .b the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HOD). <br /> E We have als been advised by the 'N. C. Manufactured <br /> that cities and towns cannot discriminate against kUD-aping Institute <br /> without the danger of losing their Federal ssistance. PProved housing <br /> On in effectus atesl�th Vermont a <br /> which <br /> uses must b allowed in any district of the staterthatepermitsecai�venY <br /> banal .site built sin le-family uses. <br /> r- -�-�-- <br /> Another important precedent handed down is the case brought against <br /> the City of onney Lake, ton, in which the Su2eriar Court. of <br /> nst <br /> Pierce Count ruled that "discrimination against those types of single- <br /> abuse dwellings denom7,__�inated 'mobile homes cons u es an un awIu�"- <br /> abuse of the olice owes and that the ordinances so enacted are <br /> unconstituti n <br /> Still a other point is the proposed zoning ordinance in A <br /> in which g area homes on individual fats will be allowed a i'ere within <br /> the zoning area. <br /> r- <br /> Courts and legislatures around the country are recognizing discrimi- <br /> nation against mobile homes and are taking steps to eliminate it. <br /> Rev. WiI iam i _d3w the Well-known <br /> be Orange County, has authorized us to make the Pa <br /> follow eblack statement community <br /> behalf: <br /> "PEOPLE SHOULD BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE WHERE THEY WANT TO y <br /> LIVE WHETHER N A MOBILE HOME OR IN A SITE BUILT HOME. THIS IS IN <br /> ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. <br /> "YOU CAN'T 'TELL PEOPLE THAT THEY CAN'T LIVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE- <br /> THAT'S DISCRI INATION. <br /> "TOO, PEO LE JUST STARTING OUT CAN'T AFFORD A $50,000 HOME. " ' <br /> And Reverend Richardson concludes: <br /> "YOU JUST HAVE TO KEEP ON FIGHTING DISCRIMINATION ALL THE TIME. " <br /> People. in Orange County and throughout the United States are being <br /> Priced out of he site-built home market. The Secretary of HUD recently <br /> stated that by 1982, in 5 short <br /> $78,000. ,years, the average new home will cost <br /> Since Chu_61_1_i_11 has dip rimina_ted against- <br /> by effectively anning them from its entir n individual�aud P �h�f_blaes <br /> s ea, we ask th t the ' sinners re"ect Ci��pe�j��{ -�s: -an <br /> until Or n e County receives an absolute iron <br /> -guarantee from <br /> -� <br /> of Ch�1 Hill hat all individual mobile homes on indivi ua ots in the n <br />