Manufactured Home Communities

The Manufactured Home Communities project, sponsored by Council members Jamie Torres (District 3), Flor Alvidrez (District 7), Kevin Flynn (District 2), and Darrell Watson (District 9), passed Denver City Council on November 25, 2024. It will become effective December 16, 2024. It updates the Denver Zoning Code (DZC) and zoning map to encourage the continued use and improvement of Denver’s existing mobile home parks. The project introduces a new zone district, Manufactured Home Community (MHC), that is applied to existing mobile home parks via a rezoning. The text amendment alleviates redevelopment pressure and explicitly allows a manufactured home community use in the zoning code. The following areas containing mobile home parks will be rezoned to allow them permanently and preserve this type of housing.

  • Aspen Terrace - 996-990 S Jason Street
  • Montevista - 4501 W Kentucky Avenue 
  • Longview Mobile Home Park - 5220 N Steele Street & 5201 N Adams Street 
  • Shady Acres - 2825 W Evans Avenue 
  • York Mobile Home Park - 4765 N York Street 

Denver Planning Board reviewed this proposal on October 2, and was reviewed by Denver City Council's Land Use, Transportation & Infrastructure (LUTI) Committee on October 15. To submit a comment or ask a question about this text amendment, please email Senior City Planner Justin Montgomery at justin.montgomery@denvergov.org.

Read the City Council Review Draft(PDF, 6MB)

The new MHC zone district provides building form standards, like maximum height and minimum setbacks, that reflect the current conditions of the existing mobile home parks. This ensures that existing communities will be able to comply with the new rules while also maintaining safety standards. The text amendment will also make the replacement of new manufactured homes at these locations easier. New manufactured home communities will not be able to use the MHC zone district but could still be developed in other zone districts that permit multiple structures on a single zone lot.

Project Background

Denver is home to five mobile home parks with approximately 300 housing units. This housing is not income-restricted, but it is an important source of affordable housing. The five communities were developed decades ago, before modern zoning regulations. For many years, the Denver Zoning Code has considered them a nonconforming use that is not allowed in any zone district. Older mobile homes that had become unsafe and unlivable couldn’t be replaced with newer units, until last March, when City Council adopted an amendment to the zoning code to allow such replacements. Even with this change, the nonconforming use designation for mobile home parks poses regulatory barriers and could result in their redevelopment.

To explicitly allow mobile home parks in Denver and to encourage their continued use and improvement while discouraging their redevelopment, Council members Torres, Alvidrez, Flynn, and Watson are sponsoring another zoning code update to create a new zone district that would be applied to existing mobile home parks.  A moratorium on development of mobile home park sites is in place while the text amendment is developed, a process that is expected to last until the end of the year.

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