Two Warren County municipalities have similar intentions as both seek to curb an influx of older mobile homes.The Warrenton Board of Aldermen recently passed a moratorium on mobile homes more than 10 years old while the Marthasville Board of Aldermen went one step further, reviving a previously abolished ordinance restricting mobile homes to mobile home parks only.Following the first discussion of restricting mobile homes in May, Marthasville Mayor David Lange said he did not know of a mobile home park in Marthasville.“There is no protection right now,” he said. “This ordinance keeps people from putting mobile homes wherever they want to.“That ordinance worked for 21 years,” he added. “It helped us get rid of several mobile homes and kept mobile homes from being placed here, there and just anywhere. There is a provision in there that if you want to buy a brand-new mobile, then you can still bring it before the city. It just has to go in a mobile home park.”Lange said there are regulations in the ordinance, including that mobile homes have to be skirted and have street buffer zones and such.“We don’t mean to discriminate against mobile homes. It still allows you to put them in. It just restricts where they go,” he said. “I recommend we reinstate the ordinance. I ran on the issue for re-election.”Last Wednesday, the board unanimously approved amending its city codes to include the restrictions.On Tuesday night, the Warrenton Board of Aldermen approved setting a moratorium on allowing residents to occupy a mobile home that is more than 10 years old.City Attorney Chris Granville said the four-month moratorium would allow the city to take immediate action while it finalizes a new city policy. He added that the city could enforce the ordinance by simply not connecting an occupant’s water and sewer.“This will obviously give us four months, if you guys approve it tonight, to study the issue and see what some of the ins and outs are regarding what prohibits anybody from bringing mobile homes older than 10 years into the city,” Granville said.“As Alderman (Gary) Auch brought up last time, we discussed a water and sewer connection as far as a primary enforcement mechanism.”The board unanimously approved passing the moratorium. Auch said the issue of allowing older, potentially dilapidated mobile homes within city limits has been brought to him by members of the Warrenton Planning and Zoning Board and local business owners.“There are a number of issues they talked about, not just relative to mobile homes, but how do you maintain the property values in a neighborhood and all that other type of stuff,” he said. “This is the first piece to bite off and hopefully we will get some public input.”Mobile homes