MEXICO – Complaints about Harry McKenna’s placement of a mobile home last year in the downtown area on Main Street prompted a land use ordinance amendment that would ban future mobile homes from the area.

Selectmen on Wednesday night OK’d adding the amendment to the town meeting warrant, to be decided by voters in June. But McKenna’s large trailer at 277 Main St., is grandfathered to stay.

Town Manager John Madigan introduced the amendment, which defines mobile homes and modular homes.

When McKenna installed the mobile home on his property at 277 Main St., it didn’t look the same as it does now.

“I got a lot of complaints on it before when it didn’t look very good. Now, it looks good, but it doesn’t fit the area,” Code Enforcement Officer David Errington said by phone on Thursday afternoon.

McKenna, also contacted by phone Thursday, declined comment.

The amendment also seeks to change Mexico’s land management district map by increasing the downtown commercial district by about half a mile to Richards Avenue. The area is zoned residential now.

Errington said Thursday that he’d received inquiries about property development in the residential zone, and decided to make it easier for businesses to come in, hence the zoning change.

He also said there are no current restrictions on the types of businesses that could be constructed.

At Wednesday night’s meeting, Madigan said that no more mobile homes would be allowed in the downtown commercial district, including within the extended zone area up to Richards Avenue.

Selectmen approved the amendment with a 3-0 vote. Then, after the fact, Madigan asked selectman who made the motion to add the amendment to the town meeting warrant. That was done without a vote.