Mobile Home Loans

The Lafayette Planning Commission, after much prolonged debate has finally said yes to new standards for mobile home parks in areas that are unincorporated. The commission voted 4-0 on the ordinance that requires mobile homes to have enhanced safety features and utilities for residents. The ordinance is now all set go before the Lafayette City-Parish Council.

 In April, the council voted to put a six-month moratorium on Mobile Home Parks. Developments in the unincorporated parts of the parish until the new ordinance was finished. The new requirements include a playground area for children, properly paved roads and also perimeter fencing. The restrictions were made following ones that apply to surrounding mobile home parks in neighboring communities. These regulations are meant only for upcoming and new mobile home parks and not for those already in existence.

There has also been opposition to these restrictions with property owners claiming that it would greatly increase the cost of developing mobile home parks. Ultimately the costs will have to be borne by the renters, an added misery for them. Purvis Morrison, a city-parish councilman spoke in support of these restrictions saying that it is the absence of standards for mobile homes in the parish that encourages crime and reduces property values.

 The task to improve has to begun sometime and it has surely begun here now.