Hennessey’s Board of Adjustment made an exception to a 2021 zoning law that prohibits a fiveyear, or older, mobile home being moved onto another property.

Miguel Sanchez was granted the variance in a special meeting of the board at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, at Town Hall.

Sanchez owns two properties, 319 and 322 W. Kansas, and was approved to move an older than five year mobile home across the street so he could move a newer mobile home in place of it.

Board members present for the meeting were Chairman Richard Hedrick, Dustin Vinson, Logan Macy and Rachel Rogers. Absent was D.L. Knierihm.

Rogers asked why the regulation was changed to require newer mobile homes.

It was “a safety issue” and changed when the town was updating its zoning regulations and so it would fall in line with surrounding communities, said other members.

“I live in that area,” said Hennessey Town Trustee Harold Shaw from the audience, “and they (Sanchez family) went in and cleaned up that property. It’s a great improvement.

“Five or 10 years ago, you couldn’t hardly drive down that side of the street,” Shaw said.

David Treanor, interim town administrator, told the board that home and landowners in that area were sent notices about the meeting and asked to attend if they objected.

Shaw said there are many 40- and 50-year-old mobile homes in town that still have the same old wiring and plumbing.

“If a fire started in one of those 1940 mobile homes, all the fire department could do would be stand there and watch it,” Shaw said before the board approved the variance in a 4-0 vote.

Others in the audience were Sanchez and Bianca Renteria, his daughter, and Town Trustee Richard Simunek.

Town Clerk Kati Walters served as minutes clerk for the meeting.