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Approved 12/7/16 2 Patrick Mallett: The framing ultimately becomes an issue. You’ll see a lot of the literature will say, “These are energy effi cient, 55 they’re sustainable”. Well yeah, that’s true but they have solar on them because they can’t meet the electrical code. In other 56 words, the spacing requirements for the electrical wiring and the framing doesn’t work out. Literally, these things are so sh ort 57 you can’t frame a window and a door, and a structural frame and get all the electrical wiring or the framing to work to meet 58 those code requirements. So that’s the rub. It’s not a hatred for a smaller home. 59 60 Lisa Stuckey: So if you took a mobile home park and you wanted to put all tiny homes in it then it would end up being all 61 temporary? 62 63 Patrick Mallett: Or they would be underpinned and built to the mobile home standard. I think a lot of people are realizing th at 64 we need to allow for these tiny homes, but do them to the mobile home standard and go in a mobile home park or do it as a 65 camper unit and put it in an RV park. As it stands today the RV part of this really, we don’t have an allowance for that. The 66 only way you can have an RV and stay off of your property is you can park one obviously, but you’re not supposed to have 67 Cousin Eddy living there. So if somebody enterprises and said, “Hey, there’s a market. I want to do an RV park,” they would 68 have to get a SUP for a camp retreat center. It’s the only way that they could do it. 69 70 Tony Blake: There are some with that business model. They existed before. 71 72 Patrick Mallett: That’s right. They’re grandfathered in. So how do you know that but also realize that there are changes in t he 73 market place and there are people that need to come here for a period of time and they can’t afford to stay in an extended 74 stay, or a hotel. This is an alternative, same thing with a mobile home. I think that there may be people that want to do a t iny 75 home, not so much a single or doublewide type of product. So tha t’s the essence of the text change. It just so happens that 76 Allen said, “you know the Department of Environmental Health just released guidelines on a white paper and it has a nice 77 description code, all of those nuances about the RV park model, what is a r ecreational vehicle and everything else”, so I 78 brought this along as a handout and if you want I can ask Allen and or Michael to come to the Planning Board meeting and 79 give you their pieces. I’ll meet with them and go over the nuts and bolts and technical minutia. We’re meeting with the legal 80 team tomorrow. And Ashley Moncado of our office has been working with the group that’s been working on affordable, 81 sustainable, tiny home stuff and so I’ve asked her to speak so we can make sure this is in sync with th at effort, which is not 82 this. 83 84 Lydia Wegman: It’s not the same thing? 85 86 Patrick Mallett: Their focus is tiny home. 87 88 Lydia Wegman: And will they be defining tiny home? 89 90 Patrick Mallett: I think it is still murky. There are all kinds of ideas and no clear legal way to define it. And that’s part of her 91 advice that I’m going to lean on. For legal purposes, a tiny home is to be built to an RV standard or built to a mobile home 92 standard. And that’s that. There’s a new term that’s emerging called micro-home. So my thought is I don’t want to wait. And 93 the building code is not there. They don’t have a standard. Their response to this day is it’s either a RV, a mobile home, a 94 modular home, or a single-family home. And the reason they do that is that RV’s have license plates. It’s built to a 95 transportation standard. It’s never intended to be a permanent residence. Mobile home is built to a different standard that’s 96 been vetted, and approved, and tested. Like I said, the basic section is that we need to change and the 2 districts. The mobile 97 home park district conditional use and the TRU, Temporary Residential Unit. 98 99 Tony Blake: Where are the close districts? Are they just not… 100 101 Patrick Mallett: We have no plans to re-zone something the TRU CZ. That would be upon someone… They would file a case, 102 they would have to show us a site plan, specify where thee stalls and the spaces are it would be virtually the same. 103 104 Tony Blake: Is there any minimum acreage size or anything like that? 105 106 Patrick Mallett: Same acreage. For the purposes of impact on the surrounding area, all the setbacks, all the minimum acreage 107 requirements are the same as a mobile home lot. 108