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7 <br />Rt..3, Box 772 <br />Hillsborough, N.C,,,27278 <br />April 25, 1990 <br />Mr. Marvin Collins <br />Planning Department <br />Orange County <br />Hillsborough, N.C. 27278 <br />Dear Mr. Collins: <br />I am writing to support the proposed amendment to the <br />planning ordnance concerning efficiency apartments. <br />That it would allow "offices" such as presently grace a <br />number of older houses makes sense to me. <br />The people I know living on ten or more acres in the rural <br />part of the county usually think they have the right to <br />build an accessory dwelling unit. They tend to begin to <br />consider the matter seriously in order to care for an aged <br />parent while maintaining as much independence as possible <br />for all concerned. <br />So the accessory dwelling should meet the standards for the <br />handicapped and therefore should have a maximum size of 800 <br />square feet, no matter what the size of the main residence. <br />The change suggested could be effected by adding to the end <br />of the first sentence of paragraph 1 (of the proposed <br />amendment) the following: "if attached, and no more than <br />800 square feet if detached from the principal dwelling. <br />Or shorter and more sensible would be to let the first <br />sentence read: "The efficiency unit contains no more than <br />800 square feet." <br />Yours �sinceeJrely, <br />dac�k G. Gilbert <br />cc: Mrs. Eidenier <br />