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Approved 1/4/2017 2 54 Michael Harvey: To expand upon that, that current ordinance says that it’s up to the park owner as part of the 55 development process to establish a system 1a, 1b, 1c. The revised ordinance requires a mobile home park to be 56 addressed consistent with the County addressing ordinance. So each individual stall will be addressed with a number 57 consistent with the County’s ordinance so there can be no dispute over what’s 101, 103, 110. And they all will have to 58 display address numbers consistent with that address ordinance. That’s the big link we’re doing here. 59 60 Patrick Mallett: Some of these with the travel around park don’t necessarily have a clearly posted sign. And then on 61 the EMS end, I think that they’re continuing to make an extraordinary effort to have their database so that they know 62 if somebody’s in need of service that they know how to get there. 63 64 Paul Guthrie: It’s my impression that a lot of the older parks really got their push at the end of World War II, and you 65 can see units that have been there since WWII. How do we watch that to see if it’s still maintained and we try to save 66 it as quality standards, or not? 67 68 Patrick Mallett: Well, maybe what we’ll do is go through the power point and then come back to that part of it. But 69 Mobile homes are a little bit different in the sense that it is build to a HUD standard, it actually has a metal placard 70 that has a serial number kind of like a VIN number and you can change the mount. So theoretically you could have a 71 40-year old unit, singlewide, you yank out the skirting, the underpinning and then replace it with a new one as long as 72 it fits within the space. 73 74 Paul Guthrie: The other question; you mentioned the enforcement of federal protection. Given the turmoil in 75 Washington right now, what do you do if standards get eliminated? 76 77 Michael Harvey: You never say never, but the definitional constitutes a certified manufactured house will never 78 change from this notion of it is a self contained engineered structure that can withstand X capacity. And that’s infinite. 79 That’s never going to change. And that ultimately is what we’re looking for in terms of this is a manufactured home by 80 HUD’s definition. 81 82 Paul Guthrie: And on a curveball, environmental standards in today’s announcement from the EPA and as a couple 83 of us here are ex EPA employees there are standards in EPA relative to water and to wastewater. Who would 84 enforce them if they were withdrawn? 85 86 Michael Harvey: There still have to be permitting for water/wastewater. 87 88 Paul Guthrie: So you would re-permit on existing units? 89 90 Alan Clapp: So this covers the land use zoning comp plan parts of this that our intent is to make it coincide with other 91 regulations at the State and Federal level and not get in the way. Those are going to change over time, as they 92 always have, but this deals with your permits, your zoning and compliance permits, your planning approvals. You still 93 have to go through and meet inspections, building permits, electrical permits, you have to go through Environmental 94 Health to get your water and septic hooks up and so on and so forth. So this is one part in all of the myriad of 95 requirements that you have to meet. So I would say that they’re most closely aligned with the Federal… 96 97 Paul Guthrie: I’ll let you get back to your discussion, I’m just throwing it out because I think there’s going to be a 98 period of time where it’s going to be difficult to mesh some of the Federal standards that have been changed with 99 what we have done as normal business for a long time. And since we’re in the process I just wanted to raise the 100 issue. We should carefully see that we can still continue to do the maximum, especially on sanitary issues, on our 101 own with or without the Federal government. 102 103 Alan Clapp: Currently Environmental Health, for all the mobile home parks that are on well, septic, or one or the other 104 we angle inspection of the park. So that inspection involves walking the entire park, making sure all the systems are 105 functioning, and taking a water sample. Even under the current administration just this year there was a change in 106 36