2025/04/30 Council Agenda Packet

Fairway Estates Mobile Home Park has 171 units with 259 voting age residents, most of whom are in their late 60’s,70’s 80’s & 90’s We have many, special need residents, veterans, & single widows & widowers. WHY WE ARE ASKING For Manufactured Housing Zoning Overlay. Exorbitated Rent Increases since purchase of Fairway Estates by the Carlyle Group (a private Equity Group that owns 4, 55+ manufactured Mobile Home Parks in Snohomish Co.) The rents have gone up approx.10% each year for the past 3 years and are now presented to be almost 100% increase from 3 years ago. January 2025 rents will be from $1625-$1675 per month with somediscounts. Carlyle and other Private Equity groups keep these “Parks” for 5-6 years then sell them for the Highest & Best use of the land; be it Apartments, Townhomes, Condominiums, or Commercial Use. Most of our residents rely on Social Security as their only source of income. For the widows, widowers, disabled & Veterans this new rent will leave them with little or nothing to live on. Forced to sell, it will therefore exacerbate the affordable housing crisis in Everett by leaving those selling, homeless, with very little places to go. What makes the Manufactured Mobile Home Park home owners different from Apartments, condominiums and Townhomes rentals is the fact that the manufactured mobile home is purchased by the home owners who pays and are responsible for All Home and yard (“PAD”) maintenance, just like Residential Real Estate, Includingpaying for Personal Property Taxes These increased rents have made our homes hard to sell, thus devaluing our homes for resale. We fear for our future and ability to (in our case) to remain Everett residents, as many of us have been for years. If no action is taken by the City Council & Mayor the futurefor most residents will be displacement, possibly homelessness. We have 55 (30%) out of our 171 units occupied by singles; Widows, Widowers, Handicapped, & Veterans. As you are keenly aware we already have an Affordable Housing Crisis in Everett. Not passing this will only exacerbate the current housing situation in Everett.We hope the Planning Department, the Planning Commissioners, the Council & the Mayor will act to preserve the affordability that Fairway Estates 55+ Manufactured Mobile Home Park and (maybe other Manufactured Mobile Home Parks) represent by Approving the Zoning Overlay. Please see attached references from other cities inWA. State. Reason: Fairway Estates a 55+Manufactured Mobile Home Park needs to REMAIN a 55+ Manufactured Mobile Home Park. This will keep low-income housing for seniors in the South Everett area and will not place additional burdens on the Housing Market already struggling to meet the demand for affordable housing. Respectfully Submitted, KenKen Pierson Chairman of Board of Directors for FEHOA