Commission to consider mobile home request

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June 30, 2008

STAFF REPORT The Commercial-News Mon Jun 30, 2008, 09:44 AM CDT

DANVILLE — The Danville Area Planning and Zoning Commission will meet Thursday to discuss a mobile home request.

The commission meets at 5:15 p.m. at the Robert E. Jones Municipal Building, 17 W. Main St.

Herbert “Pete” M. and Beth A. Lappin are requesting a special-use permit to temporarily place a mobile home at 17147 Stable Lane in the A-2 development reserve zoning district.

The site is outside city limits, but within the mile-and-a-half zoning jurisdiction of the city. It is about a mile north of West Newell Road just off Shake Rag Road.

Danville Planning and Zoning Manager Chris Milliken said there is a mixture of new houses and older ones, including manufactured/mobile homes, in the rural area.

One vacant mobile home sits just west of the property.

The Lappins live in Bismarck and plan to move their mobile home to this site that previously had a manufactured home on it, he said.

Milliken said the Lappins look to build a modular home there within the next four years.

The city’s public development department is not recommending approval or denial of the request.

Milliken said some neighbors have questioned whether the mobile home could potentially detract from other new homes being built and people purchasing properties there.

Milliken said he’s not seen pictures of the mobile home, and if the commission is to approve its placement, the department would ask for a time restriction for permanent action.

In other business, the commission also will continue discussing zoning ordinance revisions and amending a table of uses for expansion of special uses in the light industrial zoning district.

“We’ll talk about specific applications of that,” Milliken said.

Zoning ordinance revision discussions will include signage issues, in which the city’s corporation counsel still is reviewing, landscaping regulations and an 18-month limit after city council approval on special-use permits.

There is no limit in the ordinance now. The permit would expire if construction doesn’t commence, and the petitioner would have to go through the zoning approval process again.

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