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15 <br /> DRAFT <br /> 111 Charity Kirk: That's not up to us to give people that value judgement. <br /> 112 <br /> 113 Statler Gilfillen: Forget about homes,we have a lot of existing old antique farm houses without building on there that are <br /> 114 no longer functioning as farms in Orange County. The option, the existing house may have an updated septic system <br /> 115 more than adequate for the house the question becomes the conversion of the outbuildings into what might be an 800 <br /> 116 sq.ft, less than 1,000 sq.ft. unit that follows the historic configuration of that site. Under this ordinance, you are only <br /> 117 allowed 1 unit on your site. <br /> 118 <br /> 119 Tyler Sliger: Yes. <br /> 120 <br /> 121 Statler Gilfillen: You have the right to appeal for the possibility for a second one and I raise the question this financially <br /> 122 as an architect, if someone owns an existing house and a shed are in exceptionally good condition,or were historically <br /> 123 there,to rebuild them on that site is visually a positive thing and for the owner, where it is tied together as one system, <br /> 124 you've got a landlord sitting right there on the site to control how it is rented. That can be a very positive social aspect of <br /> 125 this type of law. To allow more than one unit on a site. The construction standards typically with tiny houses not with the <br /> 126 trailers that are bought from the cheapest vendor. <br /> 127 <br /> 128 Tyler Sliger: Anything that is proposed is going to have to be passed by building inspections. <br /> 129 <br /> 130 Statler Gilfillen: Is it possible to put a second unit on a site like that within an appeal. <br /> 131 <br /> 132 Tyler Sliger: Possibly,that would be up to the Board of Adjustment. <br /> 133 <br /> 134 Lamar Proctor: I do have concerns that as soon as you allow this everyone in the County could conceivably pop a <br /> 135 mobile home on their property, get approval and start and become landlords. <br /> 136 <br /> 137 Tyler Sliger: They can do that right now. <br /> 138 <br /> 139 Melissa Poole: You are focusing on the mobile home when there are a lot of people. <br /> 140 <br /> 141 Adam Beeman: I understand that we need affordable housing but I think the County could go ahead and come up with <br /> 142 some generic blueprints for a home equal to the size of the trailer and that people would know the County has already <br /> 143 approved it so this is roughly what it would costs me to do that so let me go that route versus the other route but they are <br /> 144 not armed with that information and the trailer is just faster and we are in the world of I need it immediately. <br /> 145 <br /> 146 Charity Kirk: Do you want to make a proposal to disallow mobile homes to be efficiencies to remove that. <br /> 147 <br /> 148 Adam Beeman: I would but I don't think it would get very far. <br /> 149 <br /> 150 Lamar Proctor: I spent part of my childhood in a trailer and I don't have anything against trailers but I do see the point of <br /> 151 allowing a depreciating asset to stand as real estate is a financially economically losing proposition in the long run. <br /> 152 <br /> 153 MOTION BY Adam Beeman to remove mobile homes from the amendment so that they are not allowed at all and <br /> 154 everything else stands. Seconded by Lamar Proctor. <br /> 155 MOTION FAILED 7-2(PROCTOR,BEEMAN) <br /> 156 <br /> 157 MOTION BY Charity Kirk to approve the Statement of Approval and Consistency in the proposed text amendment with <br /> 158 adopted Orange County plans in Attachment 1 and Attachment 2. Seconded by Randy Marshall. <br /> 159 MOTION PASSED 6-3(PROCTOR,BEEMAN,QUILLEN) <br /> 160 <br />