Give Van Buren Planning the home’s identification and receiving parcel before relying on a zoning category. The city’s linked ordinance requires a Planning Commission rezoning application before locating a mobile home outside an R-4 Mobile Home District, while its R-5 provisions separately address qualifying manufactured homes. Do not apply one category’s rule to a home in the other category.
Mobile-home category outside R-4
The linked ordinance calls for a Planning Commission rezoning application before locating a mobile home outside that district.
Qualifying manufactured-home category
The R-5 provisions separately address federally standardized homes and their permanent-foundation requirements.
Read the defined terms before the district name
The Van Buren zoning ordinance distinguishes older mobile homes from homes built under federal manufactured-housing standards. Its R-5 provision addresses manufactured homes permanently installed in accordance with the specified foundation requirements. That receiving-site provision is not permission for the carrier to install the home.
Identify the home before choosing the delivery date
Provide the carrier with the home’s size, pickup address and receiving parcel. Explain whether Planning has confirmed the home’s classification and destination status.
The current Van Buren planning and development page links this zoning compilation and provides the municipal review path. Have Planning confirm the actual classification, parcel and any required application before dispatch. A seller’s description or a nearby park does not settle those questions for your receiving lot.
