County P&Z Recommends Approving Cedar Hill Mobile Home Park Revamp
Date Posted: July 30, 2024
Posted In: Discussion, Ideas, Projects, Regionalism,
From Leader Publications: It looks like the owner of a lawfully nonconforming mobile home community in Cedar Hill will get to expand and improve the development following a recent Jefferson County Planning and Zoning Commission decision.
On July 11, the commission decided to recommend that the Jefferson County Council approve a request from Paradise Estates, a St. Louis company, to rezone a 7.6-acre property at 1 Paradise Estates Drive from large lot residential to planned mixed residential, which allows for a higher density of residences per acre.
A mobile home community, which has nine residents, is located on the property at Hwy. B and Cedar Hill Road.
The commission advises the County Council on land-use issues in unincorporated areas. The County Council, which has the sole authority over rezoning, will consider a resolution to approve the rezoning request and development plans at a future meeting.
Owner Robert Brake said the zoning change would allow his company to add 40 more concrete pads on which future tenants may place their mobile homes, adding that he was not aware his property was nonconforming when he purchased it in 2020.
“(The property) has been a mobile home park since before the 1970s,” Brake said. “In 1991, there was a (countywide rezoning effort), and this park didn’t meet the requirements, so (the county) changed (the zoning), and no one ever said anything, and life went on. We’re just trying to change it back to make it a nice, clean park and put a sewer treatment plant in, bring some new pads – homes – in and fill it up and give people a nice place to live.”