Washington’s City Council will consider several land-use matters during its meeting Monday.

The council is scheduled to consider adding double-wide manufactured homes in the city’s residential-agricultural (RA-20) zoning districts if a special-use permit is granted by the Board of Adjustment. The proposed change to the City Code would apply to double-wide manufactured homes proposed to be located in the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction and outside the flood-hazard area only, according to a memorandum from John Rodman, the city’s planning and development director, to the mayor and council.

“This will apply only to DW manufactured homes to be located on individual residential lots and used solely as permanent, single-family, residential structures,” reads the memorandum.

To obtain a special-use permit under this section of the City Code, 14 specific conditions must be met, according to the proposed change. One of the conditions requires that the double-wide manufactured home must be positioned on the building lot so the primary (front) entrance of the home is facing either a public or private street.

The Planning Board does not recommend approval of the amendment, according to the memorandum.

The council has been asked to review a 14-page draft of a proposed nonresidential property maintenance code crafted by the Planning Board.

“For a number of years, NC local governments had expressed an interest in adopting a local commercial and industrial property maintenance code,” reads a memorandum from Rodman to the mayor and council. “Specific statutory authority was lacking. The unsafe-building condemnation statutes that the state had applied to nonresidential buildings and structures, but those statutes and the process were never intended to support a true property maintenance code.”

The concept of a nonresidential maintenance code is to establish minimum standards regarding sanitation, safety and maintenance for nonresidential buildings, according to the memorandum. The proposed ordinance would be similar to the city’s minimum-housing code, except it would apply to nonresidential properties.

The proposed code includes a provision for the city to impose civil penalties for violations of the code. The proposed code also provides a process to appeal a code-enforcement official’s decision or order to the Board of Adjustment. A ruling by the Board of Adjustment may be appealed to Superior Court.

The council also is expected to discuss a recommendation by the Planning Board to allow commercial marinas within the city’s office and institutional zoning districts only if a special-use permit is issued for such a marina.

Commercial marinas are not a listed use on the table of uses in the city’s O&I districts. The Planning Board believes it’s necessary to add commercial marinas to the list to help regulate commercial marinas along the city’s waterfront areas.

The proposal includes 13 specific conditions that must be met before a special-use permit could be issued.

The City Council meets at 5:30 p.m. Monday in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Building, 102 E. Second St. The agenda for the council’s meeting may be viewed by visiting the city’s website: www.ci.washington.nc.us.