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16 <br /> Approved 12/7/16 <br /> 55 Lydia Wegman: I don't know.The ones I've seen that are not that big. <br /> 56 <br /> 57 Patrick Mallett: The framing ultimately becomes an issue.You'll see a lot of the literature will say, "These are energy efficient, <br /> 58 they're sustainable". Well yeah, that's true but they have solar on them because they can't meet the electrical code. In other <br /> 59 words, the spacing requirements for the electrical wiring and the framing doesn't work out. Literally, these things are so short <br /> 60 you can't frame a window and a door, and a structural frame and get all the electrical wiring or the framing to work to meet <br /> 61 those code requirements. So that's the rub. It's not a hatred for a smaller home. <br /> 62 <br /> 63 Lisa Stuckey: So if you took a mobile home park and you wanted to put all tiny homes in it then it would end up being all <br /> 64 temporary? <br /> 65 <br /> 66 Patrick Mallett: Or they would be underpinned and built to the mobile home standard. I think a lot of people are realizing that <br /> 67 we need to allow for these tiny homes, but do them to the mobile home standard and go in a mobile home park or do it as a <br /> 68 camper unit and put it in an RV park. As it stands today the RV part of this really, we don't have an allowance for that. The <br /> 69 only way you can have an RV and stay off of your property is you can park one obviously, but you're not supposed to have <br /> 70 Cousin Eddy living there. So if somebody enterprises and said, "Hey, there's a market. I want to do an RV park," they would <br /> 71 have to get a SUP for a camp retreat center. It's the only way that they could do it. <br /> 72 <br /> 73 Tony Blake:There are some with that business model.They existed before. <br /> 74 <br /> 75 Patrick Mallett: That's right. They're grandfathered in. So how do you know that but also realize that there are changes in the <br /> 76 market place and there are people that need to come here for a period of time and they can't afford to stay in an extended <br /> 77 stay, or a hotel. This is an alternative, same thing with a mobile home. I think that there may be people that want to do a tiny <br /> 78 home, not so much a single or doublewide type of product. So that's the essence of the text change. It just so happens that <br /> 79 Allen said, "you know the Department of Environmental Health just released guidelines on a white paper and it has a nice <br /> 80 description code, all of those nuances about the RV park model, what is a recreational vehicle and everything else", so I <br /> 81 brought this along as a handout and if you want I can ask Allen and or Michael to come to the Planning Board meeting and <br /> 82 give you their pieces. I'll meet with them and go over the nuts and bolts and technical minutia. We're meeting with the legal <br /> 83 team tomorrow. And Ashley Moncado of our office has been working with the group that's been working on affordable, <br /> 84 sustainable, tiny home stuff and so I've asked her to speak so we can make sure this is in sync with that effort, which is not <br /> 85 this. <br /> 86 <br /> 87 Lydia Wegman: It's not the same thing? <br /> 88 <br /> 89 Patrick Mallett:Their focus is tiny home. <br /> 90 <br /> 91 Lydia Wegman:And will they be defining tiny home? <br /> 92 <br /> 93 Patrick Mallett: I think it is still murky. There are all kinds of ideas and no clear legal way to define it. And that's part of her <br /> 94 advice that I'm going to lean on. For legal purposes, a tiny home is to be built to an RV standard or built to a mobile home <br /> 95 standard. And that's that. There's a new term that's emerging called micro-home. So my thought is I don't want to wait. And <br /> 96 the building code is not there. They don't have a standard. Their response to this day is it's either a RV, a mobile home, a <br /> 97 modular home, or a single-family home. And the reason they do that is that RV's have license plates. It's built to a <br /> 98 transportation standard. It's never intended to be a permanent residence. Mobile home is built to a different standard that's <br /> 99 been vetted, and approved, and tested. Like I said, the basic section is that we need to change and the 2 districts.The mobile <br /> 100 home park district conditional use and the TRU, Temporary Residential Unit. <br /> 101 <br /> 102 Tony Blake:Where are the close districts?Are they just not... <br /> 103 <br /> 104 Patrick Mallett: We have no plans to re-zone something the TRU CZ. That would be upon someone... They would file a case, <br /> 105 they would have to show us a site plan,specify where thee stalls and the spaces are it would be virtually the same. <br /> 106 <br /> 107 Tony Blake: Is there any minimum acreage size or anything like that? <br /> 108 <br /> 2 <br />