| Planning Commission approves application for new housing at mobile ...
The Douglas County Planning Commission on Thursday voted to approve an application to construct a housing development on land currently housing the Saddle Butte Mobile Manor.
The commission voted 5-1, with Commissioner Brian Parkinson opposed, to grant the request from L&H Lumber Co. to create 133 zero-lot-line, single-family homes over a three-phase project. The plans call for 140 mobile home spaces about half of the entire mobile home park off Highway 99 in Winchester to be replaced with stick-built homes.
At the same time, the commission rejected a condition recommended by the Douglas County Planning Department for L&H Lumber to pay residents of the mobile home park $2,000 each in moving expenses or to pay half of their actual relocation costs.
While several planning commissioners sympathized with the burden placed on residents forced to move because of the development, they said they were only following the law.
1:1 Digital House and the Future of Green Building
There is a direct link between the growing "intelligence" of our homes -- their increasing ability to use electronics to sense, monitor and adapt -- and their sustainability. Many of the coolest aspects of green building involve the building itself responding to the conditions around it, working with, rather than against, the sun, wind and weather. Such adaptive, responsive buildings are at least as important a goal as radical new material breakthroughs. We don't even need robotic edge monkeys crawling all over our homes to get there. The tools are ready-to-hand or coming soon. Smart homes can automate the opening and closing of windows to maintain ventilation and cooling, angle sunshades for optimal solar heat gain, even turn geothermal heat pumps on and off. Smart homes can also change the way we think about inhabiting our homes, by revealing to us previously hidden connections and facilitating better choices.
Fire guts mobile home in Moss Landing
Reggie Bunner, 60, who manages Moss Landing Park at 1900 Salinas Road, said he rushed to the mobile home at space 76 when he saw it was burning. "It was too intense for me to get in," Bunner said. "I could see the fire was burning toward the front door" Roberson said no one was inside the house and no injuries were reported. Michele Keith, 40, who lived at the house, had left before the fire erupted, Roberson said. Keith's friend Alex Martinez was in the shower when she left, but Martinez apparently left before the fire was reported, according to Roberson. A cat might have been inside, he said. Roberson said the materials used to build mobile homes allow them to burn hotter and faster than other structures. .
Preparing for nature's fury: Will your haven suffice when next ...
ORLANDO, Fla. - Sammy Hart built an ultrasecure closet in his home to save his most valuable possessions. It turns out his foresight probably saved his life. He woke up during an early-morning rainstorm on Feb. 2. Television news was reporting dangerous weather approaching his rural Crow's Nest neighborhood in northeast Lake County, Fla. Hart, a Lake County Sheriff's sergeant, grabbed his 19-year-old daughter and his dog as the power went out. They scrambled to the walk-in closet that Hart had constructed as a safe room with steel-reinforced concrete walls. Around them, windows shattered and parts of the house fell apart. Gusts peeled the roof back and scattered pieces of the interior through the neighborhood. Then - within a minute - it was over.
Three Year Trends in the Mobile Homes Industry
DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c54229) has announced the addition of "Mobile Homes: State Market Index" to their offering. The metrics in this report cover three year trends in SIC 2451 [Manufacturing sector], broken out on a state-by-state basis. Analysis is based on data applied from 501 industry firms. Industry market vitality measures for each state are benchmarked against US averages for the industry, creating easy comparison of state-by-state performance. Industry sales are detailed for both company-wide headquarters data and locally generated sales levels. The report also compares proprietary BizMiner measures in each state and the US, including failure rates, entrepreneurial activity and new branch development rates in the industry.
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