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17 <br /> Approved 12/7/16 <br /> 109 Patrick Mallett: Same acreage. For the purposes of impact on the surrounding area, all the setbacks, all the minimum acreage <br /> 110 requirements are the same as a mobile home lot. <br /> 111 <br /> 112 Tony Blake: How would the septic be figured? <br /> 113 <br /> 114 Patrick Mallett: If you're doing homes you would have to have a lot, you would have to have a septic system; you would have <br /> 115 to have a well, making permanent connections. <br /> 116 <br /> 117 Tony Blake: But if you're doing a mobile home park it's different?And that would follow that same standard. <br /> 118 <br /> 119 Patrick Mallett: Yeah. Because there's not a lot so it's a space... Conventional standards are from the driveway. And they're <br /> 120 really designed so that people can come in and come out and emergency services can service and solid waste can service <br /> 121 them.One of the interesting things that is...A tiny home is the only way that you can get a single bedroom septic system. <br /> 122 <br /> 123 Lisa Stuckey: Could those houses made out of container boxes? <br /> 124 <br /> 125 Patrick Mallett:As long as you can build it to a standard it could be made out of recycled plastic. But it has to meet a code. <br /> 126 <br /> 127 Lydia Wegman: Does it have to meet a building code of some kind? <br /> 128 <br /> 129 Tony Blake:Well it has to meet a mobile home standard. <br /> 130 <br /> 131 Patrick Mallett:The HUD standards for Mobile Homes, yeah. <br /> 132 <br /> 133 Tony Blake: But the problem is with the tiny homes is that cost per square foot is so much greater than it is for a mobile home. <br /> 134 And so it's hard to justify. <br /> 135 <br /> 136 Lisa Stuckey: But they're taking those containers and making them into houses. But it's the same, are they mobile or not <br /> 137 mobile? <br /> 138 <br /> 139 Patrick Mallett:Yeah, exactly.And what standard are the built to, and what type of utilities are the hooked up to(permanent or <br /> 140 not)?This is part 2 of those 4 text changes that are moving through. Michael's got one of them that will be part 3. I see it as a <br /> 141 step in the right direction and at least we can give the people some answers and some guidance versus you can live in a <br /> 142 camp retreat center if you get it approved. So our goal is to get this one to the February Public Hearing. <br /> 143 <br /> 144 Tony Blake: One more question. How does this fit with accessory use, or does it? <br /> 145 <br /> 146 Patrick Mallett: It'll be the same as it applies for others.There's supervision in there for the sheds. So let's say you had an RV <br /> 147 park, you had common open space, it's owned by the landlord, and you have a caretaker. Theoretically you could get a shed <br /> 148 and for an extra $5 a month you get a shelf in the storage accessory structure. But the same rules would apply as accessory <br /> 149 shed structures. <br /> 150 <br /> 151 Paul Guthrie: I've got a question.We have some in my house that watch all these tiny building shows that are on TV, so that's <br /> 152 my exposure. But one of the things those show is that there's a growing range of cost on things of a similar size. Has there <br /> 153 been any effort or any movement towards trying to get some more common definitions of these various alternatives? <br /> 154 <br /> 155 Patrick Mallett: That's the affordable housing part of this that Ashley is involved in. We're getting into the mobile home park <br /> 156 and the RV park part of it.The sustainability, affordability part is a much bigger then, and then defining it. I think they've spent <br /> 157 a long time trying to define. <br /> 158 <br /> 159 Paul Guthrie:There's a broad range in those general exposures. <br /> 160 <br /> 3 <br />