What is Everett’s NR-MHC zone and when is the public hearing? 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 proposed ordinance 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 Avenue. The new zone is one of the most consequential anti-displacement tools the city has on the table this year.
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 (addresses 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 the city’s adopted Comprehensive Plan: HO-10 (Protect manufactured/mobile home communities from redevelopment into other uses) and 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 Street
- Fairway Estates Mobile Home Park — 1427 100th Street
- Lago De Plata Villa — 620 112th Street
- Loganberry Mobile Home Park — 9931 18th Avenue W.
- Mobile Country Club — 1415 84th Street
- Silver Shores Senior Mobile Home Park — 11622 Silver Lake Road
- Westridge Mobile Home Park — 7701 Hardeson Road
That is 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 is the use we are 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 cannot legally be relocated under current code at all.
The NR-MHC zone does not 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 protective designation. That changes the math for park owners weighing a sale to a redeveloper, and it gives residents a structural backstop that lease-side protections alone cannot provide.
The May 6 public hearing
The Everett City Council will hold the public hearing on the ordinance on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. in the city council chambers at 3002 Wetmore Avenue, Everett.
This is the formal opportunity for residents of the seven affected parks, neighbors, housing advocates, and park owners to address the council before adoption. Written comment is also accepted through the city’s standard public-comment channels in advance of and at the hearing.
How this fits with the rest of Everett’s anti-displacement work
The NR-MHC zone is one piece of a broader anti-displacement strategy taking shape across the city. Read it alongside:
- Stations Unidos — the rebranded community development corporation explicitly built to slow displacement in Casino Road and the Everett Station District ahead of Sound Transit Link. See our complete Stations Unidos guide.
- The City of Everett’s broader Comprehensive Plan housing implementation across all 21 neighborhoods.
- The Everett Housing Authority’s portfolio work.
- The broader 2027 budget conversation that determines what additional anti-displacement programs the city can fund — see our complete 2027 budget guide.
The NR-MHC zone is the regulatory side of the strategy. Stations Unidos and the Housing Authority are the acquisition and development sides. Together they form an anti-displacement toolkit that addresses different parts of the same problem.
Park-by-park: what is being protected
Each of the seven communities has its own demographic and physical character. The common thread: residents who own the manufactured home but rent the underlying lot, often older households on fixed incomes, often in 55+ communities. The total resident count across the seven parks is in the low thousands. The lot rents in these communities are meaningfully below market apartment rents in the same parts of the city, and the home equity residents carry — even modest — is a significant piece of household wealth that disappears in a relocation.
The city’s framing of the proposed zone as a furtherance of HO-10 and HO-19 in the Comprehensive Plan is the key institutional signal. This is not an emergency response to a specific pending sale; it is the implementation of an adopted housing policy through the zoning code.
What to watch next
- The May 6 City Council public hearing — testimony, council questions, any proposed amendments
- Council vote schedule following the hearing
- Park owner positions on the proposal
- Resident advocacy and organizing in the seven affected communities
- Any parallel or follow-on housing code amendments the council pursues alongside the NR-MHC adoption
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the NR-MHC zone?
NR-MHC stands for Neighborhood Residential – Manufactured Home Community. It is a new zoning category the City of Everett is proposing to apply to seven specific manufactured home parks, restricting redevelopment of those parcels into other uses without an explicit rezone.
When is the public hearing?
The Everett City Council holds the public hearing on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. in council chambers at 3002 Wetmore Avenue.
Which parks are covered?
The proposed NR-MHC designation would apply to Creekside Mobile Home Park (5810 Fleming Street), Fairway Estates Mobile Home Park (1427 100th Street), Lago De Plata Villa (620 112th Street), Loganberry Mobile Home Park (9931 18th Avenue W.), Mobile Country Club (1415 84th Street), Silver Shores Senior Mobile Home Park (11622 Silver Lake Road), and Westridge Mobile Home Park (7701 Hardeson Road).
What does the ordinance change in the Municipal Code?
The ordinance creates the NR-MHC category in Title 19 EMC by amending Sections 15.02, 19.03, 19.04, 19.05, and 19.13, applies the new zone to the seven specified parks, and repeals Title 17 EMC (the older Mobile Home Parks chapter).
What Comprehensive Plan policies does this implement?
HO-10 (Protect manufactured/mobile home communities from redevelopment into other uses) and HO-19 (Collaborate with local partners to preserve and maintain affordable housing units), under Goal 4 (Ensure equitable access to opportunity and housing choice throughout the city’s neighborhoods).
Does the NR-MHC zone make a park sale impossible?
No. The zone does not prohibit sale or transfer. It does require any redevelopment of the underlying land into a different use to go through an explicit rezone — a slow, public, and politically visible process — rather than the quieter administrative paths that historically have made park redevelopment relatively frictionless.
Can I comment if I do not live in one of the parks?
Yes. Public hearings are open to anyone who wants to address the council. Written comment can be submitted through the city’s standard public-comment channels in advance of and at the hearing.
How does this connect to Stations Unidos?
Both are anti-displacement tools, but they target different problems. The NR-MHC zone protects mobile home parks across multiple Everett neighborhoods through zoning. Stations Unidos is a community development corporation focused on Casino Road and the Everett Station District, working through real estate acquisition and development. Read together, they are pieces of a broader strategy.
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