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Minutes o£ Hastings P/arming Commission Meeting held Monday. March 9, 1970 Page 2. Also, due to the new concept of Mobile Homes and Modular Homes, a new and different method of taxation must be established. The League Committee is recommending a drastic change in the Mobile Home Tax Laws, that there should be a tax levied comparable to the real property taxes. They are also aware that there will be several organized groups advocating changes in the present tax law in regard to Mobile Homes. The Mobile Home industry will be invited to meet with the Tax Committee prior to drawing up any of the Bills, however, the Mobile Home Industry will have a strong lobby in their favor. Mr. Claeson thought it would be doubtful that any Ordinance to enforce the number of school unit population within a park could be established by City Legislation. Mr. Claeson had another appointment and had to leave the meeting, so he could not stay~t for any additional question and answer sessions, how- ever, the information he gave the committee and those present would be evaluated for a decision by the Planning Commission. Chairman Walt Petersen was late in attending the meeting so the meeting was chaired by Mr. Hallberg. There should be an amendment made to the minutes of the last meeting, adding Mr. Don Hallberg to the list of those present at that meeting. The next item before the Planning Commission was the Bill Pechacek mobile home park. Mr. Pechacek furnished the Planning Commission with the committee's recommendations dated December 15, 1965 attached to these minutes along with newspaper accounts of approval of the Mobile Home Park. Mr. Pechacek indicated that he would use the interceptor sewer adjacent to his property as an outlet for sewer systems, that he will extend at his own cost the watermain to the proposed mobile home park which is located at the east end of E. 8th Street. Mr. Pechacek questioned the proposed 4,050 square foot area required under the proposed trailer park ordinance and said that his layout had been established on the basis of 3Z00 square feet. He indicated the preliminary plan had been approved by the Planning Commission and City Council in 1965, but that because of the lack of sewer to serve the area, he waited until the interceptor was constructed in 1967. He has been filling the area in general and did use a considerable amount of fill from the interceptor sewer construction in 1967 to bring the area up to grade. He is proposing 50 units in the Mobile Home Park and did furnish a print of the area for Planning Commission review. It was indicated to Mr. Pechacek, that because of the proposed Mobile Home Ordinance, that in regard to this, after it was approved, the existing mobile home parks would be given three years to comply, so that we were suggesting that when he established this park that it does con form to the proposed ordinances, rather than the existing ones.