Loans Receivable and Allowance for Loan Losses - Summary of Loans Modified in Troubled Debt Restructurings and Related Recorded Investment (Detail) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($) Loan	Sep. 30, 2015 USD ($) Loan	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($) Loan	Sep. 30, 2015 USD ($) Loan
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number of Loans \| Loan	10	22	52	132
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 533	$ 888	$ 3,927	$ 5,930
Commercial and industrial (including owner occupied commercial real estate)
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number of Loans \| Loan	0	1	1	2
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 0	$ 183	$ 76	$ 527
Commercial real estate - non-owner occupied
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number of Loans \| Loan	0	0	1	1
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 0	$ 0	$ 1,844	$ 209
Manufactured housing
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number of Loans \| Loan	10	20	47	127
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 533	$ 699	$ 1,716	$ 4,993
Residential real estate
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number of Loans \| Loan	0	1	3	2
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 0	$ 6	$ 291	$ 201

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Number of financing receivables that have been modified by troubled debt restructurings.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 33
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66008989&loc=SL6953676-111524

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Post-modification amount of investment in financing receivables modified by troubled debt restructurings.

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