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1 2 EXCERPT OF DRAFT SUMMARY NOTES 3 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD 4 NOVEMBER 2, 2016 5 ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE 6 7 MEMBERS PRESENT: Lydia Wegman (Chair), At-Large, Chapel Hill Township; Tony Blake (Vice-chair), Bingham Township 8 Representative; Paul Guthrie, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; Kim Piracci, At-Large; Maxecine Mitchell, At-Large Bingham 9 Township; Lisa Stuckey, Chapel Hill Township Representative; Andrea Rohrbacher, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; Patricia 10 Roberts, Cheeks Township Representative; 11 12 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor; Perdita Holtz; Planning 13 Systems Coordinator; Patrick Mallett, Planner II, Rachel McCook, Planner I; Meredith Kern , Administrative Assistant II. 14 15 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL 16 17 Lydia Wegman called meeting to order. 18 19 20 AGENDA ITEM 2: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT AMENDMENTS – TEMPORARY RESIDENTIAL UNITS 21 CONDITIONAL DISTRICT 22 To review and comment upon proposed amendments to the UDO that would establish a new 23 conditional zoning district for temporary housing units. 24 Presenter: Patrick Mallett, Planner II 25 26 Patrick Mallett reviewed the abstract. 27 28 Lisa Stuckey: I don’t understand why we have to go through these charades. 29 30 Patrick Mallett: That’s the way the state building code, the health codes, all of the codes are defined. 31 32 Lisa Stuckey: So these are not built to habitable standards? 33 34 Patrick Mallett: Yes, once you go beyond that magic day it becomes a permanent structure or residence. 35 36 Lisa Stuckey: So what about the tiny homes? On TV I’ve seen tiny homes subdivisions. These are very permanent. 37 38 Patrick Mallett: They’re not. You could do a subdivision, theoretically, with 10 lots and do 10 tiny homes that meet the 39 minimum lot standards. I think part of the rub is unless you do something like a cluster subdivision, you end up with a 300 40 square foot tiny home on a 1-acre lot. It may work, it may not. I think that the cost of the land basis kind of drives that out of 41 the realm of reality. It definitely does in the Rural Buffer where you’ve got 2-acre to 5-acre lots. 42 43 Tony Blake: They’re doing it in Chatham County but when they did it there was no zoning at all so they were able to pull it 44 together. 45 46 Patrick Mallett: Right now, you would either build the tiny home on a foundation that could be a stick built, and most of them 47 are not long enough. You can also build to a modular home standard; a mobile home standard; or now an RV Park Model 48 Standard of construction. 49 50 Lydia Wegman: I don’t know. The ones I’ve seen that are not that big. 51 52 Patrick Mallett: The framing ultimately becomes an issue. You’ll see a lot of the literature will say, “These are energy efficient, 53 they’re sustainable”. Well yeah, that’s true but they have solar on them because they can’t meet the electrical code. In other 54 Attachment 2 25