LEWISTON — The Town Board approved a six-month moratorium on approving new mobile home parks, campgrounds, and cemeteries at its meeting this week.
The local law for this moratorium states it would allow the town time to research, develop, and adopt amendments to the town code to regulate such properties in coordination with the in-development master plan, which had not been updated since 1999.
Town Attorney Alfonso Bax, who drafts new regulations for the town board to approve, said the town’s current laws are not up to date on the cited properties.
The town code has definitions and mentions of where cemeteries are a permitted use and chapters regulating camping grounds and mobile home parks.
The local law contains the same language used for the other recently passed six-month moratorium on approving non-conforming seasonal uses, events, and attractions in the town. It may be extended by six months if necessary.
No one spoke at the public hearing about this moratorium during the meeting.
Lewiston is home to 15 cemeteries, one campground, and no mobile home parks.