The latest local news, weather and high school sports in and around Columbia and Jefferson City

COLUMBIA, MO. -- Nearly 100 people living in a Columbia trailer park will have to find new homes.

Residents of the Regency Mobile Home Park received eviction notices telling them they have to be off the property by March 1.

Bill and Patty Perkins said their eviction is all about greed.  The owner of Regency Mobile Home Park George Gradow wants to sell his property to a Texas-based student housing company called Aspen Heights.  Aspen Heights wants to rezone the property and build a 936 bedroom student housing apartment complex.

Evicted homeowner Bill Perkins said, “They gave us a limit to when we have to be out by.  It’s the middle of winter.  These people aren’t going to move a trailer in the middle of winter.  Their insurance won’t cover it.  It’s dangerous.  You can’t tie it down.  The ground is going to be frozen.”

Bill and Patty Perkins said it will cost them about $3,500 to move their trailer to another mobile home park.  That’s money they don’t have.

Evicted homeowner Patty Perkins said, “I feel like I’m being tossed away like a piece of trash.  I don’t know what I’m going to do.”

Columbia City Council Members are scheduled to vote on the zoning request that would convert the trailer park into an apartment complex during their November 21 meeting.

Residents of Columbia’s El Ray Mobile Home Park on Mexico Gravel Road have also received eviction notices.

That trailer park is closing at the end of February because the Missouri Department of Natural Resources found a violation with the park’s lagoon.