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Glasgow Manufactured Homes ordinance (§ 415.170)

Chapter 415: Floodplain Management · Article IV. Provisions For Flood Hazard Reduction

A. All manufactured homes to be placed within all unnumbered and numbered A zones and AE zones, on the community's FIRM shall be required to be installed using methods and practices that minimize flood damage. For the purposes of this requirement, manufactured homes must be elevated and anchored to resist flotation, collapse, or lateral movement. Methods of anchoring may include, but are not limited to, use of over-the-top or frame ties to ground anchors.

B. Require manufactured homes that are placed or substantially improved within unnumbered or numbered A zones and AE zones on the community's FIRM on sites outside of manufactured home park or subdivision, in a new manufactured home park or subdivision, in an expansion to and existing manufactured home park or subdivision, or in an existing manufactured home park or subdivision on which a manufactured home has incurred substantial damage as the result of a flood, be elevated on a permanent foundation such that the lowest floor of the manufactured home is elevated to one (1) foot above the base flood elevation and be securely attached to an adequately anchored foundation system to resist flotation, collapse, and lateral movement.

C. Require that manufactured homes to be placed or substantially improved on sites in an existing manufactured home park or subdivision within all unnumbered and numbered A zones and AE zones on the community's FIRM that are not subject to the provisions of Article IV, Section 145.170(B) of this Chapter, be elevated so that either:

1. The lowest floor of the manufactured home is at one (1) foot above the base flood level; or

2. The manufactured home chassis is supported by reinforced piers or other foundation elements of at least equivalent strength that are no less than thirty-six (36) inches in height above grade and be securely attached to an adequately anchored foundation system to resist flotation, collapse, and lateral movement.

Official source: City of Glasgow official Code of Ordinances (online), § 415.170

Last checked November 1, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.