The Clark County Council has voted unanimously to extend its moratorium on manufactured home park redevelopment.
On Feb. 17, councilors voted to keep manufactured and mobile home parks from being redevelopment sites for another full year. In August 2025, Clark County councilors approved a six-month emergency moratorium to pause all redevelopment applications for manufactured and mobile home parks. Councilors followed up by voting to extend the moratorium in October 2025.
The October vote was required by law within 60 days of the August decision. The moratoriums have been set in place to pause the development applications while county staff draft regulations to preserve the affordable housing option many residents rely on in unincorporated Clark County.
Numerous manufactured and mobile home park residents spoke in favor of the extension on Feb. 17, including Hazel Dell Mobile Home Park resident Linda Mather. Mather explained that her lot rent is $709, not including utilities. She bought her home for $80,000 and has since made over $50,000 in investments to improve her living conditions on the lot she rents.
Mather listed off her home’s features: two bedrooms, one bathroom, a living room and dining room, plus a kitchen, a new carport, shed and a “lovely new deck where I can enjoy cool shade in the summer.”
“I have insurance against wind, water and fire destruction,” Mather told council. “But not against builders and developers who could bulldoze my home to repurpose the land under it.”
Mather added that her home, and all of its improvements, cannot be moved.
“So my house and all the improvements I’ve made would be a complete and devastating financial loss,” she said. “I ask each of you councilors to consider what you would do to recover from a complete loss of your home. There are those who would gleefully put me out of my home to line their pockets. Where is the humanity in that? I’m old and my financial resources are thin. So tell me, where could I find a comparable place to live for $709 a month?”
Jordan Boege, senior policy analyst for the County Manager’s Office, said the county planning staff has been focused on the comprehensive plan update, drawing their attention away from drafting permanent policies to protect manufactured and mobile home parks.
Before council had voted to approve the year extension on the moratorium, Boege said the proposed extension would allow planning staff to utilize their work plan to research and perform concept development work in spring and early summer. County staff will also learn from manufactured housing community preservation ordinances enacted in other jurisdictions in Washington state and elsewhere. At the same time, the city of Vancouver is working to develop similar ordinances, Boege added.
“And because the vast majority of mobile home parks in the unincorporated county are in Vancouver’s urban growth area, they will, one day, you know, assuming that state law works the way it is intended and annexation happens, they would be eventually absorbed into the city of Vancouver,” Boege said. “So that alignment is important so that we don’t have two wildly different sets of policies when you cross the street and to lessen the impacts if and when annexation occurs.”
Boege added that after a work session could occur in the spring to talk through draft strategies, in the summer, county staff would draft code for further review and stakeholders and the public would have time to comment on those draft policies. After that, there would be development of adoption-ready final code language based on the draft code and comments received.
In the late summer, Boege said staff would bring proposed manufactured housing community code provisions to both the planning commission and county council. Following that step, if the council were to approve the code and adopt the language, the clarity for mobile home owners would greatly improve.
