condeming of property expo facto

[Larryc]

What is the name of your state? Arkansas
My company ownes a mobile home park which was built in the late 50s to early 60s. The city passed an ordenance puting the mobile home parks in the town in class R7 which says that there can only be 8 mhs per acre. The problem is that, this park was built origonally with approx 12 per acre. It presently has MHs on 53 lots and the city is telling me that there can be no more homes added on the vacant lots. These vacant lots have all utilities at each pad and they have parking /patio pads all of which have exsisted since the park was built and the city is now after all these years condiming the vacant lots and not allowing them to be used, even though in years past all of them were occupied at one time or another. Does the expo facto law deal with this?

[BelizeBreeze]

Originally Posted by Larryc

What is the name of your state? Arkansas
My company ownes a mobile home park which was built in the late 50s to early 60s. The city passed an ordenance puting the mobile home parks in the town in class R7 which says that there can only be 8 mhs per acre. The problem is that, this park was built origonally with approx 12 per acre. It presently has MHs on 53 lots and the city is telling me that there can be no more homes added on the vacant lots. These vacant lots have all utilities at each pad and they have parking /patio pads all of which have exsisted since the park was built and the city is now after all these years condiming the vacant lots and not allowing them to be used, even though in years past all of them were occupied at one time or another. Does the expo facto law deal with this?

This has nothing to do with Ex Post Facto or anything other than Grandfathering. If there were no mobile homes on the pads when the law was enacted, then no mobile homes can now be put on them.

It's not rocket science.

[FarmerJ]

So now you have a chance to begin to modify individual lot leases to be larger lots as leases come up for renewals, I wonder how many of your tenants would like to have a lot large enough to hold nice size garages? . If you wish to you could begin to make plans for increasing lot sizes as units vacate and eventually work it out so that larger manufactured homes can be placed. Too bad you werent able to act sooner before the local ord came in place, it would have been well worth it to attempt to fill those slots or combine side by side emptys and place double wide homes on them your self.