Good afternoon, late afternoon, uh residents of Everett.

Uh, welcome to the parks and built environment council committee meeting today is September 10th.

It is 5 p.m.

and we are here in council chambers.

Uh, we have an exciting uh agenda this evening, if I do say so myself.

Uh, first, we're gonna have an update on some work that was started during our comprehensive plan update.

Uh council and staff had identified a need for a potential new overlay zone, specifically for manufactured homes.

Uh, and so essentially what's such a large body of work.

Uh uh staff has been working on it separate from the comp plan.

So it's now coming back to a committee for our first hearing, I guess.

Well, not technically a first hearing, but uh we're gonna be briefed on it and uh hear more about uh different elements that were identified and um just get a sneak preview into uh what that could look like for the city.

Uh so I'll turn it over to uh York, uh, if you don't mind taking uh the uh mic from here and uh just for uh public uh councilmember Vogley will be joining, but she's just running a little bit late.

Thank you.

Thank you, committee chair Ryan.

I'm York Stevenswatch, the planning director with me is Alice Ann Wetzel, uh, long-range planning manager.

We also have Frank Hong, special projects manager for housing.

Uh Alison and Frank have been doing the bulk of the work on this project.

Uh, as you mentioned, it is to uh our first implementation action that we have underway from the comprehensive plan, uh, which reads implement a mobile home park zoning overlay.

And there are some policies that go with it that refer to uh protecting manufactured and mobile home communities from redevelopment into other uses.

So we're implementing both the policies and the actions.

We've brought this to the planning commission for a first briefing and workshop with them uh three weeks ago, and um have been working it internally with staff and have done a little bit of outreach.

But I will let Alice An uh give a little summary of where we're at and some of the points that we're looking for, perhaps some early feedback from the council uh uh or committee members.

Otherwise, we'd be happy to just give you an update on where we're at.

So um as York said, we have been researching this and looking at the where the parks are, what what they consist of, how many acres, how many dwellings in them, what the type of residents are, whether they're 55 plus or all ages, um, whether they are manufactured home parks or RV parks, we have a combination across the city.

We have 10 parks and about a little over a thousand and fifty in those 10 parks.

The 10 parks are located two in Councilmanic District One, two in Councilmanic District Three, two, three in Councilmanic District Four, and three in Councilmanic District Five.

Councilmember Ryan, you're the odd person out of this equation.

So we are looking at what their underlying zoning is, what the potential for land use changes and what the development opportunities may or may not be on those sites, whether they what the underlying zoning is.

And so what we took to the planning commission was essentially the same conversation and showed them the maps of where they were located, what the underlying zoning was, and we provided a few questions to them.

And the biggest question we asked them was the preference for an overlay zone or a preference for an actual zone for manufactured housing.

So with the overlay zone, it would be a manufactured housing overlay.

It would still keep the underlying land use.

And then because we look at the comprehensive plan every 10 years, we're looking at it for being in place for 10 years, it could then move on.

One of the things that we discovered in this process was that there used to be a manufactured home park overlay zone.

It was entire vol entirely voluntary for a manufactured home park to take advantage of that zone.

Um, I'll give you three guesses as to how many took advantage of it, and probably the first two don't count.

The answer was zero.

So during rethink zoning, the planning department and council said we're going to try and pair down the number of zones, the number of overlays that exist in the city.

And let's look at the ones that are functional and doing something versus those that are not doing something.

And at that point in time, it was determined that since zero percent of the manufactured home parks were not taking this option up, that would go away.

And it did.

So we're not introducing something entirely new, but we are not necessarily thinking of making it voluntary because of the nature of the housing shortage at the moment, the nature of the demand for land potentially for doing that.

So the options with an overlay versus a zone.

An overlay would keep the underlying zoning so that if for some reason it was economically infeasible to operate a park at some point and there would be exit ways out that it would revert to the underlying zoning, which potentially could put more pressure on the potential for conversion to not be a manufactured home park, because we are saying that this is what could go there.

If we went with a zone, it would be a manufactured park zone.

And that would be the zone with some uses that would be associated with the zone being allowed there.

If they for economic reasons determined that it was no longer economically viable or feasible to be a manufactured home park, then council and planning and planning commission would all have the opportunity to put forward what would be the appropriate zone at that time.

So we wouldn't be going back three years, five years, nine years, whatever, to look at it.

We would be looking at it in current time.

So those are the two differences.

Oh, you guys decide.

So that's where we are.

That's one of the questions we'd like for you guys to put your two cents in on.

And you can add more.

I haven't.

That's okay.

Go for it.

No, just on the on the overlay or the zone question.

Uh, if the council was interested in an automatic repealer in 10 years and 20 years and 50 years and 100 years, this automatically disappears unless some action is taken.

We would need to do an overlay.