In our town mobile homes are only allowed in approved mobile home sub-divisions or parks.
There are no approved mobile home subdivisions or parks in this town. A minimum of three acres is required for a mobile home park or subdivision. The South Alabama Regional Planning commission has an ordinance in effect through the town, 7.31.2, that has been in effect since 1985.
How is this ordinance fair to the people who want to live in the town and cannot afford to build their home? Is this fair? How does the state legislate what a citizen can put on lands they own?
I am out to explore how this type ordinance has evolved and what the purpose is behind it. I want to know why their are those who believe they have a right to legislate by decree. I may be in the same boat as so many at the planning commission meeting I attended last night. I was thinking of buying a lot in town and maybe putting a manufactured home on it. I am not a wealthy man. I am one of the working poor and i am so poor in fact, that i am not convinced I could even afford a single-wide.
What I find on this journey will be enlightening to me and ought to be to anyone who is interested in the human condition. How the poor in this country are both depended upon and at the same time discriminated against. Where do local governments who are run by the well to do--because they have the education, available time and ability--put the wants of the few ahead of the needs of the many. Do the poor have themselves to blame? Are we being misrepresented by our poor brothers and sisters? Am I a part of the problem?
I hope to both enlighten others and enlighten myself in talking to some of the friends and foes I meet along the way.
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