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MEMORANDUM
DATE:March 1, 2022
TO: Mayor Arndt and City Councilmembers
THRU: Kelly DiMartino, Interim City Manager
Kyle Stannert, Deputy City Manager
Caryn Champine, Planning, Development & Transportation Director
Paul Sizemore, Community Development & Neighborhood Services Director
FROM: Ryan Mounce, City Planner
RE: North College Manufactured Housing Park Rezoning Update
This memo provides an update on a potential rezoning of the North College Mobile Home Park
(1601 N College Ave) to the City’s Manufactured Housing zone district.
Background
In 2020, the City created a new Manufactured Housing (MH) zone district and rezoned a
majority of the community’s mobile home parks to the new district to advance adopted policy
goals related to the preservation of this unique, affordable, and limited type of housing.
A rezoning for the North College Mobile Home Park was not considered initially due to
outreach accessibility during the pandemic for a more vulnerable senior population in the
park. In addition, several existing transportation and land use policy documents covering the
park conflict with a potential rezoning on the eastern half of the property.
During a lull in pandemic conditions in September 2021, staff held an in-person
neighborhood meeting to discuss initiating a rezoning on the western half of the property,
which does not conflict with existing policy plans. Feedback from participants indicated a
strong preference to update these policy plans first and then consider a rezoning of the
entire property.
Policy Plan Updates
Council recently approved an appropriation that will expand the scope of the North College Bus
Rapid Transit Study to include additional focus on land use in the North College corridor. There
is considerable overlap in the necessary outreach and analysis for both the BRT study and
updates to the North College Corridor Plan, Master Street Plan, and North College Access
Control Plan to reflect the City’s updated policy guidance for mobile home parks.
Staff is planning to integrate and coordinate outreach opportunities to explore these issues over
the course of the North College BRT study this spring and summer. If these amended policy
plans are approved by Council, it would create the alignment to consider a rezoning of the entire
North College Mobile Home Park property.
Next Steps and Timeline
Because rezonings must comply with City Plan and associated subarea plans, these policy plan
updates are a prerequisite to initiating any potential rezoning. The North College BRT Study
anticipates completion in the late summer or early fall timeframe. Staff plans to present options
to Council to update the policy plans for land use and transportation alongside the North College
BRT Study. If Council decides to adopt the plan amendments, staff will then proceed with
initiating the rezoning process for the North College Mobile Home Park, which would occur in
fall or winter 2022.