SSB 1176

This bill relates to nonconforming uses when there is a replacement of a preexisting manufactured, modular, or mobile home or site-built dwelling unit. Under current law, when there is a replacement of a preexisting manufactured, modular, or mobile home with any other manufactured, modular, or mobile home containing no more than the original number of dwelling units, or a replacement of a preexisting site-built dwelling unit with a manufactured, modular, or mobile home or site-built dwelling unit, within a manufactured home community or a mobile home park, a county or city is generally prohibited from adopting or enforcing any ordinance, regulation, or restriction, or imposing any conditions on the replacement home, home site upon which the home sits, or the owner’s property that were not required of the preexisting home, home site, or property, that would prevent the continuance of the property owner’s lawful nonconforming use that had existed relating to the preexisting home, home site upon which the home sat, or the owner’s property. A county or city may generally adopt or enforce such an ordinance, regulation, or restriction or impose such conditions when the property owner has discontinued and abandoned the nonconforming use for the period of time established by ordinance. The bill specifies that a county or city may generally adopt or enforce such an ordinance, regulation, or restriction or impose such conditions when the property owner has, subsequent to July 1, 2022, discontinued and abandoned the nonconforming use upon the entirety of the owner’s property for the period of time established by ordinance. The bill is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2022.