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the park owner's nonconforming use. The number of mobile home <br />sites or pads will remain the same; the park size will remain the <br />same; and the minimum ten foot spacing will be maintained. Since <br />the park owner does not own any of the mobile homes, they are not <br />his "building" being added to or structurally altered. In <br />addition, the mere relocation or replacement of a mobile home is <br />not in addition to or structural alteration to the premises owned <br />by the park owner so as to increase the park owner's facilities for <br />his nonconforming use. <br />Finally, the mere relocation of existing mobile home within <br />the park is and should be a permitted "alteration" of a <br />nonconforming use under §10.23(2). This ordinance provides: <br />"Nothing herein contained shall prevent the alteration, <br />restoration or repair of any building occupied by a <br />nonconforming use at the effective date of this <br />ordinance * * *." <br />CONCLUSION <br />The park owner respectfully submits that the Zoning <br />Inspector's interpretation of the ordinance is incorrect. <br />Immediate compliance with the present mobile home park zoning <br />ordinance as to spacing and off-street parking should not be <br />required, nor should a variance therefrom be required, when <br />existing mobile homes are relocated within the park or when old <br />mobile homes are replaced by newer mobile homes. This <br />interpretation of the ordinance protects the park owner's <br />investment expectation in the nonconforming use of the permanent <br />16 <br />