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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: November 20, 2017 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 6-b <br /> SUBJECT: Presentation of the Mobile Home Park Survey Report and Recommendations <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager, Housing, <br /> Human Rights, and Community <br /> Development, Planning and <br /> Inspections, and Health <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1. June 20 BOCC Mobile Home Park Work Sherrill Hampton, 919-245-2490 <br /> Group Information Item Travis Myren, 919-245-2308 <br /> 2. Mobile Home Park Survey Report Craig Benedict, 919-245-2575 <br /> 3. Summary of Tools Used In Other Meredith McMonigle, 919-245-2071 <br /> Jurisdictions <br /> 4. Mobile Home Park Recommendations <br /> PURPOSE: To present the Mobile Home Park Survey Report and Work Group <br /> recommendations. <br /> BACKGROUND: For many years, there has been interest in addressing the vulnerability of <br /> residents living in mobile home parks in Orange County. The Orange County Board of <br /> Commissioners allocated $1 million in the FY2015-16 budget process to address preservation <br /> and retention of manufactured homes parks and/or to assist in the acquisition of property and <br /> land banking for future residential development as an affordable housing alternative. During the <br /> FY2016-17 budget process, the BOCC allocated another $1 million to the land banking <br /> program. <br /> Mobile Home Park Work Group <br /> Following the establishment of the land banking program and designated funding from Orange <br /> County, local housing partners began to discuss and evaluate the opportunities and obstacles in <br /> redeveloping an existing mobile home park or developing new affordable housing addressing <br /> the needs of mobile home park residents at risk. Orange County Habitat for Humanity invited <br /> interested, local individuals to form an informal ad hoc committee that became known as the <br /> Mobile Home Park Work Group. The Work Group consisted of local government staff, for-profit <br /> developers, and non-profit housing staff and continues to meet as facilitated by County staff. <br /> Over the course of several months, the Work Group reviewed and discussed several issues <br /> facing mobile home park residents and owners. The main issue identified by the Work Group <br /> was that mobile home park residents, specifically in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, were faced with <br /> losing their homes thereby resulting in displacement as a result of redevelopment of the existing <br /> parks. In addition, these residents faced limited affordable housing options due to a lack of <br /> available mobile homes and/or mobile home spaces elsewhere and increasing housing costs in <br /> the Towns. <br />