Residents of the Blossomwood neighborhood this spring suddenly found themselves living next to something unusual: a manufactured home constructed with four trailers stacked two-high at 1005 Hermitage Avenue. The house trailers arrived on big transport trucks in the Blossomwood neighborhood in fast-growing Huntsville this spring. Then came the construction crane.
A dozen neighbors have since filed a complaint with the Huntsville Board of Zoning Adjustments to stop any further construction plans. They allege the construction violated the city’s zoning ordinance and say that Travis Cummings, the zoning administrator illegally allowed it to happen by subdividing the plot of land, and “bypassed both the Planning Commission and the City Council.”
“GSH desires to place a third structure, consisting of even more house trailers on Unified Lot, and the Zoning Administrator has already informed GSH that it may do so,” the neighbors allege in the complaint. “In fact…the zoning administrator himself has already obtained a street address, 1005 Hermitage Unit A, for this third building, and amended the zoning map to display this new street address.
The neighbors contend that the city’s zoning ordinance does not permit the use of trailers or manufactured homes in the Blossomwood neighborhood, based on its special classification in the city’s 1963 zoning ordinance.