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Approved 1/4/2017 <br /> <br />4 <br />Patrick Mallett: So we’ll see people that will tinker with a mobile home and if you rip out a wall and add onto it, what 160 <br />does that become? And that kind of transcends the mobile home park. 161 <br /> 162 <br />Lydia Wegman: Can we go back to the tiny homes? And so if they meet the RV standard would they be temporary? 163 <br /> 164 <br />Patrick Mallett: Yes. 165 <br /> 166 <br />Lydia Wegman: Only a mobile home or single family could be a permanent. 167 <br /> 168 <br />Patrick Mallett: Exactly. You’re coming to a space that’s designated on a site plan as temporary or permanent. And if 169 <br />you’re in a temporary space you’re suppose to be built to an RV standard and have a hook up. 170 <br /> 171 <br />Lydia Wegman: What if a tiny home is set on a single-family lot? 172 <br /> 173 <br />Michael Harvey: It has to meet state building code. 174 <br /> 175 <br />Maxecine Mitchell: With the tiny home meeting the RV standard can only stay at a RV park for a certain length of 176 <br />time? 177 <br /> 178 <br />Patrick Mallett: Just the same as a RV. 179 <br /> 180 <br />Buddy Hartley: How long can it stay there? 181 <br /> 182 <br />Patrick Mallett: 180 days. 183 <br /> 184 <br />Buddy Hartley: What happens if it’s there after 180 days? 185 <br /> 186 <br />Patrick Mallett: It’s a violation… On the enforcement end of this, transcending the text change is how do we deal with 187 <br />that? 188 <br /> 189 <br />Maxecine Mitchell: Right now they couldn’t be on either one? The tiny home. 190 <br /> 191 <br />Patrick Mallett: No, because it’s not meeting that standard. 192 <br /> 193 <br />Buddy Hartley: Could you drive it around the block and bring it back? 194 <br /> 195 <br />Patrick Mallett: I think that’s a discussion for the enforcers to come up with some policy that’s appropriate. But I think 196 <br />it’s in the realm of possibility to require, as part of its approval… That there’s a statement and there’s an affidavit 197 <br />that’s recorded on a lot that you’re not going to have tenants staying there in your temporary spaces for longer than 198 <br />180 days. Period. 199 <br /> 200 <br />Patrick Mallet continued presentation. 201 <br /> 202 <br />Tony Blake: Is anything grandfathered in this? 203 <br /> 204 <br />Patrick Mallett: If you’re a mobile home park and you’re there and it either pre-dated our zoning requirements it’s the 205 <br />same. You can do nothing, and this is not going to impact what you have today nor are these requirements really 206 <br />going to create additional items, if you have mobile homes there’s no additional suffering in terms of… It’s when you 207 <br />want to convert portions to temporary. That’s when you have to do additional things. But the performance standards 208 <br />and the requirements; we made a conscience effort to make it the same. 209 <br /> 210 <br />Michael Harvey: Tony, one thing to keep in mind is that with the current regulations, which are applicable, we have to 211 <br />do our own inspections. We work with several park owners to address violations that they still have to comply with. 212 <br /> 38