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County-Wide Manufactured Homes Action Plan
PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is for the Town Council to consider endorsing the County-Wide Manufactured Homes Action Plan.
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DEPARTMENT: Housing and Community Services
CONTACT INFORMATION: Rebecca Buzzard, Director, rbuzzard@carrboronc.gov Anne-Marie Vanaman, Management Specialist, avanaman@carrboronc.gov
INFORMATION: The County-Wide Manufactured Homes Action Plan provides a plan to address the redevelopment threats facing manufactured home communities in Orange County. The Plan is a collaborative effort between the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough, and Orange County that outlines specific objectives, strategies, action steps, partners, and resources needed to address the redevelopment threat facing manufactured home communities.
Background: In 2016-2017, the County, Towns, and local housing partners formed a manufactured homes work group to begin to discuss and evaluate opportunities and obstacles to addressing the needs of manufactured home community residents. The report that was created by this workgroup is included as Attachment D.
On May 4th, 2021 the Town Council received an overview of Carrboro's four manufactured home communities (MHC) and discussed addressing the vulnerability of residents living in these communities. While none of the MHCs were under immediate threat of redevelopment, the Council directed staff to work with Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, and Orange County to develop a collaborative, county-wide MHC preservation plan for the County's 100 MHCs that are home to 2,000 households, including 95 Carrboro households. A map of the County's MHC is included as Attachment C.
Additional Information: In 2021, staff from the Towns and County came together to form the Manufactured Home Staff Working Group to create a plan to address the redevelopment and sustainability threats facing manufactured home communities in Orange County. This plan used resident engagement...
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