What is the NR-MHC zone Everett is proposing? The Neighborhood Residential – Manufactured Home Community (NR-MHC) zone is a new land use category the City of Everett is creating to protect seven existing manufactured home parks from being redeveloped into other uses. The proposal amends Sections 15.02 and 19.03–19.13 of the Everett Municipal Code and repeals Title 17 (Mobile Home Parks). The Everett City Council holds a public hearing on the ordinance on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. in council chambers at 3002 Wetmore Ave.
If you live at Creekside, Fairway Estates, Lago De Plata Villa, Loganberry, Mobile Country Club, Silver Shores Senior, or Westridge, the City of Everett is about to put your community on the zoning map in a way it has never been before — and the public hearing is May 6.
The proposal creates a new zoning designation called Neighborhood Residential – Manufactured Home Community (NR-MHC). In plain language, that means the underlying land where these seven parks sit can no longer be quietly rezoned for apartments, retail, or anything else without the city explicitly saying so. The new zone is a fence around the use itself, not just the buildings.
For people who own the home but rent the lot, that’s the difference between knowing where you live in five years and not.
What this ordinance actually does
The proposed code amendment, posted by Everett Planning – Public Notices on April 10, 2026, would do four things at once:
- Create the new NR-MHC zoning category in Title 19 EMC (Sections 15.02, 19.03, 19.04, 19.05, and 19.13).
- Apply the new NR-MHC zone to seven specific manufactured housing communities (the addresses are below).
- Repeal Title 17 of the Everett Municipal Code — the older “Mobile Home Parks” chapter — folding that regulation into the unified development code.
- Implement two specific policies from Everett’s adopted Comprehensive Plan:
- HO-10: Protect manufactured/mobile home communities from redevelopment into other uses.
- HO-19: Collaborate with local partners to preserve and maintain affordable housing units.
Goal 4 of the Comprehensive Plan, which the city is invoking here, reads: “Ensure equitable access to opportunity and housing choice throughout the city’s neighborhoods so that all residents may choose their neighborhood.”
The seven communities being put on the map
Per the city’s public notice, the new NR-MHC designation would apply to:
- Creekside Mobile Home Park — 5810 Fleming St.
- Fairway Estates Mobile Home Park — 1427 100th St.
- Lago De Plata Villa — 620 112th St.
- Loganberry Mobile Home Park — 9931 18th Ave. W.
- Mobile Country Club — 1415 84th St.
- Silver Shores Senior Mobile Home Park — 11622 Silver Lake Road
- Westridge Mobile Home Park — 7701 Hardeson Rd.
That’s roughly the manufactured-housing population of Everett’s south end, plus a chunk of the Silver Lake area. Several of these are 55+ communities. Several have been in place for decades. None of them, until now, have had a zoning designation that says “this is a manufactured home community and that’s the use we’re protecting.”
Why this matters more than a typical code update
Manufactured home parks are one of the only forms of unsubsidized affordable homeownership left in Snohomish County. The standard pattern in Puget Sound over the last 20 years has been straightforward and unkind: a park sells, residents get notice to relocate, and the land is redeveloped into apartments or townhomes. Households that owned their manufactured home but rented the lot lose the home equity they had — moving a manufactured home is often more expensive than the home is worth, and many older units can’t legally be relocated under current code at all.
The NR-MHC zone doesn’t make a sale impossible. It does make redeveloping the land into a different use a slow, public, and explicit process — one that requires the city to actively rezone the parcel out of the protected category, with the corresponding hearings and political visibility.
That’s the tradeoff the city is asking residents and property owners to weigh. A landowner gives up the ability to swap to a higher-value use without a zoning fight. The community gains time, predictability, and a place at the table.
The HO-10 policy, in plain English
HO-10 — “Protect manufactured/mobile home communities from redevelopment into other uses” — has been on the books in the Everett Comprehensive Plan as adopted policy. The NR-MHC zone is the implementation tool. Comprehensive plans are aspirational; zoning ordinances are how they actually bind. This is the city moving an aspiration into the ordinance code.
HO-19 — “Collaborate with local partners to preserve and maintain affordable housing units” — sets the broader frame. The state Housing Trust Fund, nonprofit park-acquisition models like ROC USA, and Snohomish County’s preservation programs all become more effective when the underlying land use is locked in. Without a zone, those programs are buying parks that could still be rezoned. With a zone, they’re buying parks the city has formally committed to keeping as housing.
What residents and owners can actually do before May 6
The public hearing is the formal step. The council has already taken first action; earlier procedural votes occurred in January 2026. The May 6 hearing is the council’s last formal opportunity to take public testimony before voting.
If you live in or own one of the seven parks:
- Read the public hearing notice and the proposed ordinance language at the city’s posted PDF.
- Submit written comment to the city before the hearing — written comment becomes part of the record and is read by council members ahead of the vote.
- Show up at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in council chambers (3002 Wetmore Ave., 3rd floor), or join the hybrid video link the city posts on the meeting agenda.
- Sign up for public comment at the meeting if you want to speak. Each commenter typically gets two to three minutes.
If you have a related comprehensive plan or zoning map change you want considered alongside this: the city is also accepting specific amendment requests — applications to change the comprehensive plan text, the land use map, or Title 19 EMC — until 5 p.m. Monday, May 4, 2026. Pre-screening meetings are available; contact Planning at (425) 257-8810 or Everett2044@everettwa.gov.
The bigger picture for Everett’s housing inventory
Manufactured housing parks aren’t huge inventory in absolute terms — the seven communities together represent a few hundred to perhaps a thousand homes — but they punch well above their weight in unsubsidized affordability. A manufactured home in Snohomish County typically lists below $200,000 even in an environment where the median single-family list price is multiple times that. Every household kept in a manufactured home is a household not absorbing rental supply elsewhere in Everett.
The city’s 2044 Comprehensive Plan target for total housing units is in the tens of thousands. Compared to that, NR-MHC is a small piece. But it is one of the clearest pieces — a discrete decision the city can make once that compounds for decades.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the NR-MHC zone freeze rents at the affected parks?
No. Land use zoning controls what can be built or operated on a parcel. It does not control lot rents, which are governed separately. A separate body of state law — and any private lease — governs the rent paid by manufactured home owners to park owners.
Does NR-MHC stop a park owner from selling?
No. Owners retain the right to sell. What changes is what a future buyer can use the land for. Without a zoning amendment, the buyer is purchasing a manufactured home community — that’s what NR-MHC permits. A future owner who wanted a different use would need to apply to rezone, which is a public process.
Why is the city repealing Title 17?
Title 17 EMC is the older “Mobile Home Parks” chapter that predates Everett’s unified development code. The city is consolidating that regulation into Title 19 EMC and the new NR-MHC zone, so all land-use rules live in one place.
Can the new zone be undone later?
A future council could amend zoning code, just like any council can. But the NR-MHC zone moves the default from “park can be redeveloped unless someone fights it” to “park stays unless the city actively rezones it.” The political cost of removing the protection is meaningfully higher than the cost of never adopting it.
What happens at the May 6 hearing if the council approves the ordinance?
The ordinance takes effect after the council vote (typically with a short waiting period for publication). The new NR-MHC designation appears on the zoning map. Existing parks continue to operate as they do now; the zoning simply matches the use that’s already there.
I don’t live at one of the seven parks. Why should I care?
Two reasons. First, the same redevelopment pressure that affects manufactured home parks affects other older, more affordable housing across Everett — apartment complexes, older single-family neighborhoods. How the city handles this ordinance signals how it’ll handle the next one. Second, displaced households don’t disappear; they move into the rest of the rental market and the rest of the city’s housing inventory.
The bottom line for Everett
The NR-MHC zone is one of those quiet, technical, slow-moving ordinances that disappears into a code book and then quietly does its job for thirty years. May 6 is the day to weigh in if you have a stake in any of the seven parks, or in how Everett protects its remaining unsubsidized affordable housing.
Sources
- City of Everett Notice of Public Hearing — Manufactured Housing Community Zones (April 10, 2026)
- Everett Proposed Code Amendments — Manufactured Housing Communities
- Everett 2044 Comprehensive Plan — Housing Element (Goals HO-10, HO-19, Goal 4)
- Everett Municipal Code Title 19 — Unified Development Code
- Everett Specific Amendment Request (Docket) Process
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