[Imports] Mountlake Terrace, WA Building and Address Import

[stevea]

>>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 4:28 AM Marc_marc
>>> ? ? ?what's building=manufactured ? manufactured seem to be how
>>    the building
>>> ? ? ?is build, not what it look like

It might be a USA-specific (or even California- or Western North America-specific) term, but I have often heard “manufactured home” as a synonym for “mobile home,” as in the “single-wide” or “double-wide” sometimes-called “trailers” that make up (in groups of dozens or even hundreds) what used to be called “trailer parks” (and may still be in places) but seem to more often be called “mobile home parks.”  (But I’ve never heard of them called “manufactured home parks”).

As the construction / materials are similar to what I’ve experienced in “portable / temporary school or office buildings” (occasionally called a “pod” in some contexts, especially when grouped into small clusters of such buildings), these might be called “manufactured building” (schoolroom, office building…) rather than “manufactured home.”

I agree that it is true that these are not financed (or zoned) like usual homes.  It is also true that they are “portable” or “mobile” as they can be moved and are of a (somewhat) temporary nature, as they do not have a long-term foundation to the earth such as a poured concrete slab or a basement.