Davenport’s city commission voted unanimously Oct. 5 to allow a manufactured home in any zoning district where a single-family dwelling is already permitted, one of four changes to the city’s land development regulations approved that night.
The vote carried out a new state law. House Bill 803, which the Legislature passed this year and which took effect July 1, requires that an offsite-constructed residential dwelling “be permitted as of right in any zoning district where single-family detached dwellings are allowed.” The same law bars a local government from adopting or enforcing any zoning, land use or development regulation that treats such a home “differently or more restrictively than a single-family site-built dwelling allowed in the same district.”…