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to: Marvin Collins <br /> From: Ernie Patterson <br /> Date: March 15, 1990 <br /> Subject: Rual zoning and apartments in a house <br /> As part of your considerations of the new watershed zoning, <br /> I am requesting you consider a modification to the requirements <br /> that the separate "efficiency or other residential unit" that is <br /> allowed to be included as part of a house under the present <br /> zoning be modified to allow that unit to be detached from the <br /> primary residence if it meets some stricter criteria. The <br /> present zoning states that the unit may not exceed 25% of the <br /> size of the house and in the case of some of the houses being <br /> build could be as much as 1500 square feet. What I would like to <br /> propose is that for lots of 5 acres or more to insure the "other <br /> unit" be truly an apartment the limit be reduced to 20% with a <br /> total living area size not to exceed 800 square feet if it is <br /> build as a separate structure. This would allow some one living <br /> a track of land to build a unit that could serve as guest house, <br /> residential unit for aging parents, as light rental unit as <br /> allowed under the present zoning without changing the goal of the <br /> present zoning but allowing some flexibility in their use of <br /> their land. <br /> 1 <br />