FINAL BILL REPORT

SB 6476

C 210 L 04

Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description: Designating manufactured housing communities as nonconforming uses.

Sponsors: Senators Mulliken and T. Sheldon.

Senate Committee on Land Use & Planning

House Committee on Local Government

Background: There is concern that local jurisdictions are improperly using zoning ordinances to eliminate existing manufactured housing communities, a source of lower-cost housing.

Summary: Local governments are authorized to designate new manufactured housing communities as a nonconforming use, but are prohibited from ordering removal or phased elimination of existing manufactured housing communities on the basis of status as a nonconforming use.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate       48  0

House       96  0

Effective: June 10, 2004