I don’t think that the county would take very lightly the issue of mobile home parks. We have very few in the county right now, and the ones that we do have are all quite old. It takes approval from the board of supervisors to erect a mobile home anywhere, so the construction of an entire park would be subject to even more scrutiny.

Sycamore Square, which was the subject of a recent post, has plans for town homes, and the county has made it very clear that they are reluctant even to approve town home construction. There was talk a few years ago that barely touched on the issue of affordable rental housing, but even during the course of the Sycamore Square town home debate, there has been little talk of rental housing.

The buyers are now ‘voting’. It’s very possible that they’ve decided the market has bottomed out. We now have two unrelated regions reporting very similar behavior. It’ll be interesting to see if it carries forward into November and December.