Mobile-Home Owners Blast Code Change ; Rule Bans Installation, Relocation of Some Homes

Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › December 29, 2005

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Some El Paso County mobile-home owners are upset with a change in the regional building code they say renders their aging homes worthless.

The code change, approved Oct. 31 by the El Paso County Board of Commissioners, says mobile homes manufactured before 1976 cannot be installed or relocated within the county.

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Mobile-Home Owners Blast Code Change ; Rule Bans Installation, Relocation of Some Homes

The change doesn't sit well with Howard Hull, who owns mobile homes and a mobile-home park in Ellicott.

"With one stroke of the pen, they have made my property worthless," he said. "That's the bottom line. I don't think ...

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