At least one of the homeowners who’s been renting land at the Casa Loma mobile home park may have found a new site to call home.

Those who were renting pads at the mobile home park in Porter Creek were told last year they would have to vacate the area this year.

One homeowner has secured a spot at the Lobird Trailer Park. However, it will be left up to city council to give it the go-ahead with a zoning change required to make it happen.

Homeowner Ann Rudinski is asking council approve the zoning change after she worked out an agreement with the owner of the Lobird Trailer Park to move her mobile home there.

The rezoning application came forward at Tuesday evening’s city council meeting.

Planning manager Pat Ross pointed out that under the current regulations, the heated addition that is now part of Rudinski’s home, and three-quarters the size of the home, could not be moved under the current zoning.

“The RP zoning regulations contain restrictions on the types of additions that are permitted to be attached to the original factory-built home,” Ross stated in his report.

“These restrictions are in place to ensure that the structural integrity of the mobile home is not negatively impacted, and to ensure that the portability of the mobile home is not compromised.”

While decks, patios and Arctic entries are permitted as additions in the mobile home park zoning, those that result in a heated living space are not.

That’s because they are more of a permanent fixture “as opposed to the portable to the ‘chattel’ status that should exist when the ownership of the mobile home and the ownership of the land are not alike.”

In this case, though, there has been confirmation with a local company that the entire home – including the addition – can be moved and remain intact.

“This demonstrates that the mobile home could be moved at a later date if a future owner was required to do so by the Lobird Trailer Park ownership,” Ross said.

He went on to point out that many mobile homes in Lobird feature additions to the original home that was placed on the pad.

“As a result, mobile homes with additions are not uncommon in the context of the Lobird Trailer Park,” Ross said.

The proposed zoning would apply only to the pad Rudinski would be relocating to and specifically to her home.

That means if Rudinski moved the home again in the future, anyone moving to the site would have to follow the zoning regulations in place at that time.

Rudinski is one of three homeowners moving from the Casa Loma to Lobird. In the other cases the zoning requirements were met.

“Not approving the proposed zoning amendment would result in Mrs. Rudinski needing to find another property on which to relocate her mobile home,” Ross said.

“Conformance with the RP zoning regulations by removing the addition is not achievable as the modified dwelling would no longer be defined as a mobile home as per the zoning bylaw definition.”

First reading of the rezoning will come forward next week.

If it’s approved, a public hearing on it will be held at council’s session on Oct. 11.

That would be followed by an administrative report on the hearing being presented the following week, with second and third readings then coming forward Oct. 24.

Mayor Dan Curtis and Coun. Dan Boyd were absent from Tuesday’s council meeting.