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Boulder City Council Resolution Text

WHEREAS, the need for permanently affordable housing in the City of Boulder has been established through a public process leading to the acceptance of the Comprehensive Housing Strategy by the City Council in February, 1999 and in the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan which seeks to establish at least ten percent of the City's housing stock as permanently affordable; and

WHEREAS, the City of Boulder purchased the Mapleton Mobile Home Park, containing approximately 15 acres and 130 homes, on March 7, 1997 for purposes of preserving its use as a mobile home park and to facilitate the construction of the Goose Creek flood control channel; and

WHEREAS, the City of Boulder is committed to preserving the Mapleton Mobile Home Park as a mobile home park that is permanently affordable to low and moderate income households; and

WHEREAS, the City of Boulder plans to sell the Mapleton Mobile Home Park following completion of the Goose Creek flood control channel; and

WHEREAS, the City of Boulder is interested in promoting resident owned mobile home parks within the City of Boulder as a means of preserving both mobile home parks and the permanent affordability of mobile homes within mobile home parks; and

WHEREAS, a majority of the current residents of the Mapleton Mobile Home Park, through their non profit corporation, the Mapleton Home Association, have expressed their desire to purchase the Mapleton Mobile Home Park from the City of Boulder; and

WHEREAS, the City of Boulder and the Mapleton Home Association have agreed to develop, in the year 2001, a memorandum of understanding between the City of Boulder and the Mapleton Home Association that provides a project timeline and defines the terms and conditions that must be met by the Mapleton Home Association in order for it to be considered a viable purchaser of the Mapleton Mobile Home Park, located at 2635 Mapleton Avenue in Boulder.

NOW, THEREFORE be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Boulder that the preservation of the Mapleton Mobile Home Park , located at 2635 Mapleton Avenue in Boulder, and the opportunity for eventual resident ownership of the Mapleton Mobile Home Park is consistent with the Comprehensive Housing Strategy and the housing goals of the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan and consequently the City Manager is hereby directed to develop a memorandum of understanding between the City of Boulder and the Mapleton Home Association that provides a project timeline and defines the terms and conditions that must be met by the Mapleton Home Association in order for the City to consider it to be a viable purchaser of the Mapleton Mobile Home Park when the City is prepared to sell the Mapleton Mobile Home Park.

Continue to the Amendment to this Resolution, passed by Council on 8/21/01.

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