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Approved 1/4/2017 5 Our goal is to try to work with park owners that have illegally allowed, for example, 3 units in 1 5,000 square foot 213 space. You’re going to have to address that violation. That’s one huge violation. The other violation that we see a lot 214 of is illegal additions on mobile homes that essentially invalidate its HUD certificate, but also a violation of state 215 building code and zoning. So unfortunately we have 90 parks that we are inspecting. I would say we have done 40, 216 and have worked on several issues in those 40. There are multitudes more. We have just scratched the service. But 217 a lot of our efforts are trying to coordinate with land records and emergency service staff, trying to fix any and all 218 addressing problems so there is an appropriate level of compliance where this is an address, this is where they have 219 to go, and emergency services know where to go when there is an emergency. 220 221 Lydia Wegman: Did you hear anything of concern at the July 20th meetings you had? 222 223 Patrick Mallett: No. I did get a phone call and email from an operator yesterday who owns 65 mobile home parks 224 throughout the southeast of which they own several in Orange County. They said this is exactly the trend. We have a 225 good number of our home parks that have been converted to have some sort of hybrid so that we can meet the 226 market demands. 227 228 Lydia Wegman: Was he comfortable with what you were doing? 229 230 Patrick Mallett: Yes. I don’t think I’ve had any negative responses. Either from residents that are interested to tenants 231 to mobile home park owners. 232 233 Patrick Mallett continued presentation. 234 235 Alan Clapp: On the septic end the only thing that’s different is the minimum size for a mobile home inaudible. The 236 park model and the RV type have a lower flow rate in the North Carolina sewage inaudible so it would be less flow to 237 the system. Then we’re going to get the question of, “Can we do 2 where we have 1?” and the answer’s going to be 238 no because they still have to meet the 5,000. 239 240 Michael Harvey: We only allow 1 unit per 5,000 square feet. 241 242 Patrick Mallett: And, peppered throughout the 30 some odd pages of the text change, it’s 1 space, 1 unit. No 243 efficiencies. It doesn’t matter how big it is or how small it is. And we did take the comments from the ORC about the 244 shed’s and then lowering the minimum cap from 10-acres to 5-acres for your minimum track size. 245 246 Lydia Wegman: Michael, is there anything you wanted to add? 247 248 Michael Rettie: The only thing we regulate with RV’s is the electric pedestal. It’s the only jurisdiction we have 249 anything to do with. 250 251 252 Patrick Mallett: So part of that would be the site plan approval and the designation of the space and then some sort of 253 affidavit that says it’s built to the park model standard. 254 255 Lydia Wegman: But no HUD certification? 256 257 Michael Rettie: Not for a RV. 258 259 Alan Clapp: Yes. 260 261 Paul Guthrie: How many? 262 263 Alan Clapp: I don’t know because those are the ones that we don’t go to. 264 265 39