Do many cities allow single wide manufactured homes?
Manufactured Homes April 26th, 2010All the cities here even the hillbilly city up in the sticks says a manufactured home must be combine 2 units and be 1,000 square feet. Why does it matter how big a house is? Bleh Too many laws and not enough freedoms with your land. So I suppose my only option is to buy land outside of city limits where zoning laws do not apply?
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April 26th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Yes, most of the US allows manufactured homes, in the areas zoned for them and when the area meet the building requirements. In Texas, where I live, building codes are applied by the county and the city so even going into a rural area this still means there are required building codes. You would need to investigate your codes. A 2 unit is not a single-wide but rather a double wide per my understanding. Here all new move-on’s need to match the current code, older lots are grandfathered with older codes. When I lived in California all manufactured homes are manditorily required to meet the codes set for earthquakes, here they are set for high winds and tornadoes. My mom’s single wide in Nebraska had code regulations for snow and tornadoes. You also can’t move a manufactured home, here, into a housing subdivision set for standard homes. But right down the street from where I live there is a mobile home community with 75 parking lots, and since it is old, 80% of the homes are single-wides.