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Residents of two Maplewood and damage to the trailer much that it would take more than "a The council decided to return
mobile home parks told the City less severe with a ground an- normal wind from •a thunder- the ordinance to the staff for
Council Thursday they do not choring system." storm" to tip over a mobile more study, partly because of
the he city should require - _�� �.a. . home, uestions over the suitabilit of
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homes. �,�,�-_,. �''taplI='✓s�oL'� THEY ALSO argued that one type of tie-down system for
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THE COUNCIL is consideringHOWEVER, residents of the living on limited or fixed in The council also wants to find
an ordinance that would require two parks — Beaver Lake Es- comes and would have difficulty out whether the system pro-
anchoring for all new installa- tates and the St. Paul Trailer paying for a tie-down. Mobile posed by the city staff complies
tions of mobile homes and Court — objected almost unani- homes are "the last form of .with state regulations.
would give owners of existing mously to the ordinance, citing low-cost housing available to
units 12 months to comply. cost and what they said is the the average person," Hodgins
The council resurrected the or- low probability of a tornado bc- said.
dinance — tabled last year to curring in Maplewood. Walter Rechtenbach,950 Frost
await state requirements that Ave.,said that in 28 years at the
never came — because of recent City staff members estimated St.Paul Trailer Court no trailers
high winds that have damaged the cost of tie-downs at$400 per have been tipped over.
other mobile home parks. unit. "There isn't any of us that are
S'L'ATE LAW now provides DAVID HODCINS, 2472 Elk-
frightened,"he said.
that anchoring systems must hart Lane, argued that Maple- "NO STRtornado,"APS will hold a
meet certain standards but does wood is well-protected from tor- "Whenr in a tornadocanpickhe aa
not require that mobile homes nadoes because of the heat bar- a and up a
be anchored. Tier of St.Paul and Minneapolis. locomotivehemaround and cars s, tosst
p them like corks, what
Ground anchoring systems do Most tornadoes occur in the would it do to these straps?" In,
rot provide tiie ultimate in pro- northwestern portion of the met- case of a tornado warning, he
tection for mobile homes, Ma- ropolitan area,he said. said,residents would leave their
piewood City Manager Mike hie and other residents argued traileff.- '
Miller said, but if the occupants
were caught in a trailer during a
severe storm "their chances of
survival would be much greater