Supreme Court Sides With City In Mobile Home Dispute -But It Doesn’t Matter Anyway
After spending years and a tremendous amount of money, the city of Pasco, Washington, won a victory. The court ruled that the city can regulate RVs in mobile home parks. But the ruling came a little late. “Legislation that the state enacted last year made the whole argument moot”, said Pasco City Manager Gary Crutchfield.
Under a new state ordinance, cities must allow RVs to be in mobile home parks. Cities are allowed to regulate RVs that are used as permanent residences for safety or health reasons. RVs in parks must be connected to sewer and water.
The case began in 2006, when park owner Paul Lawson appealed a city code citation for someone living in an RV in his park. That resident still lives there, but in the ensuing years, has traded in his RV for a mobile home.
Frank & Dave’s Opinion of This Story:
There are two morals to this story.
The first is just how pathetic the legal system is. It took 5 years to resolve what should have been a simple case – so long, in fact, that the state law changed in the interim and even the person who the case was based on moved on from an RV to mobile home. The only thing worse than the U.S. legal system is… well, we can’t think of anything.
The second moral is how even the State of Washington has been touched by the love of the mobile home park as affordable housing. With RVs now being made acceptable for all parks, it opens up yet another door to improved occupancy at mobile home parks.
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April 14, 2010 1:18 pm