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Approved 1/4/2017 <br /> <br />5 <br />Patrick Mallett: Yes. 212 <br /> 213 <br />Lydia Wegman: Only a mobile home or single family could be a permanent. 214 <br /> 215 <br />Patrick Mallett: Exactly. You’re coming to a space that’s designated on a site plan as temporary or permanent. And if 216 <br />you’re in a temporary space you’re suppose to be built to an RV standard and have a hook up. 217 <br /> 218 <br />Lydia Wegman: What if a tiny home is set on a single-family lot? 219 <br /> 220 <br />Michael Harvey: It has to meet state building code. 221 <br /> 222 <br />Maxecine Mitchell: With the tiny home meeting the RV standard can only stay at a RV park for a certain length of 223 <br />time? 224 <br /> 225 <br />Patrick Mallett: Just the same as a RV. 226 <br /> 227 <br />Buddy Hartley: How long can it stay there? 228 <br /> 229 <br />Patrick Mallett: 180 days. 230 <br /> 231 <br />Buddy Hartley: What happens if it’s there after 180 days? 232 <br /> 233 <br />Patrick Mallett: It’s a violation… On the enforcement end of this, transcending the text change is how do we deal with 234 <br />that? 235 <br /> 236 <br />Maxecine Mitchell: Right now they couldn’t be on either one? The tiny home. 237 <br /> 238 <br />Patrick Mallett: No, because it’s not meeting that standard. 239 <br /> 240 <br />Buddy Hartley: Could you drive it around the block and bring it back? 241 <br /> 242 <br />Patrick Mallett: I think that’s a discussion for the enforcers to come up with some policy that’s appropriate. But I think 243 <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 244 <br />that’s recorded on a lot that you’re not going to have tenants staying there in your temporary spaces for longer than 245 <br />180 days. Period. 246 <br /> 247 <br />Patrick Mallet continued presentation. 248 <br /> 249 <br />Tony Blake: Is anything grandfathered in this? 250 <br /> 251 <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 252 <br />same. You can do nothing, and this is not going to impact what you have today nor are these requirements really 253 <br />going to create additional items, if you have mobile homes there’s no additional suffering in terms of… It’s when you 254 <br />want to convert portions to temporary. That’s when you have to do additional things. But the performance standards 255 <br />and the requirements; we made a conscience effort to make it the same. 256 <br /> 257 <br />Michael Harvey: Tony, one thing to keep in mind is that with the current regulations, which are applicable, we have to 258 <br />do our own inspections. We work with several park owners to address violations that they still have to comply with. 259 <br />Our goal is to try to work with park owners that have illegally allowed, for example, 3 units in 1 5,000 square foot 260 <br />space. You’re going to have to address that violation. That’s one huge violation. The other violation that we see a lot 261 <br />of is illegal additions on mobile homes that essentially invalidate its HUD certificate, but also a violation of state 262 <br />building code and zoning. So unfortunately we have 90 parks that we are inspecting. I would say we have done 40, 263 <br />and have worked on several issues in those 40. There are multitudes more. We have just scratched the service. But 264