A Time to Speak with Rob Chambers

Power-Grab by Mississippi's Lee County Supervisors
In this podcast, Chad Mills of Pontotoc County (a neighboring county to Lee County, Mississippi) , expresses and explains his opposition to the amended Manufactured Housing Code. Chambers discusses with Mills the Board's power-grab as a discriminatory act to violate landowner and homeowner rights. Examples of the heavy-handed approach to government includes the ordinance that if homeowners don't build a porch on their house or don't have government-approved roofing, they get fined and/or go to jail for up to 30 days.
While citing reasonable concerns about waste-water runoff from mobile homes as basis for amending the code, the Board passed draconian changes to the manufactured housing code with very little to no transparency. Wesley Webb, President of Lee County Supervisor, has publicly defended the unanimous vote of the Board.
Tupelo's local paper, the Daily Journal, described the power-grab as a "tweak [to] manufactured housing regulations." Local reports also claim the Board began to consider changes in May 2024. This is the same month the Daily Journal reported the Community Development Foundation (CDF) gave the supervisors of Lee County "a presentation and proposed changes to the county's mobile home regulations." The CDF vision claims to "build a strong, diverse local economy and unique quality of place for all who live and work in Tupelo/Lee County." At the time of posting this podcast, CDF had not publicly opposed the Lee County Board of Supervisors' vote on the housing ordinance.