NY Manufactured / Mobile Home Constitutional Non-Exclusion Rule (NY)

Tracked preemption from the New York overlay bundle.

Overview

Effective
1978-01-01
Sunset
Authority
state
Scope
state:NY

Trigger predicate

When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.

always true

Preempted fields

1 field on the base district schema is rewritten when the trigger fires.

FieldOpValueNote
base_districts[*].manufactured_home_totally_excludedoverrideFalseTotal citywide exclusion of manufactured homes is unconstitutional under NY Constitution Art. I. Restrictive zoning (confining manufactured homes to specified districts or parks) is permissible.

Citation

Authority source
Robert E. Kurzius, Inc. v. Incorporated Village of Upper Brookville, 45 N.Y.2d 840 (1978) and progeny; NY Department of State — Municipal Regulation of Manufactured Housing (Sept 2024)
§ NY Const. Art. I (substantive due process / exclusionary zoning doctrine)
https://dos.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2024/09/municipal-regulation-of-manufactured-housing.pdf

Research notes

Constitutional — not statutory. Municipalities may confine manufactured homes to designated districts or parks but may not exclude them from the community entirely. 2025 titling-as-real-property chapter laws are a finance reform, not a zoning preemption.