FRANKFORT — A bill aimed at getting “manufactured housing” into more city neighborhoods was gutted in the Kentucky House on Monday.

        Under prodding from the Kentucky League of Cities, the House deleted the heart of the bill — language forbidding zoning regulations that would automatically exclude manufactured housing from residential zones.

        Majority Leader Greg Stumbo proposed the redaction. He said it was to allay the league's fears that local officials would lose control of their own communities.

        In its present form, the bill would allow local governments with zoning to set “compatibility standards” for manufactured housing — standards for ensuring the structures would blend with their neighbors.

        The bill was passed 71-27 and returns to the Senate, where it originated. The Senate version would have prevented communities with zoning from excluding qualified manufactured homes from residential zones.

        The changes still didn't satisfy everyone in the House.

        Rep. Charles Miller, D-Louisville, said two “double wides” could be put together and called a manufactured home. He said there are some very nice subdivisions consisting of manufactured homes, but said it wasn't prudent to put those homes in established residential neighborhoods.

        “I have a notion the people here would object to a manufactured home being put beside their subdivision home,” he said.

        Rep. John Adams, D-Hopkinsville, said safeguards would keep areas from being “invaded by a housing product they won't be proud of.”

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