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17 DRAFT 439 putting them in a home to live separate but being able to be cared for. We are talking about this as if it's only renting or 440 renters and affordable housing but it's also a support for folks with aging parents and family members. 441 442 Adam Beeman: I understand it, I just feel like you are putting those people in the hole to begin with it's like forcing them 443 to go buy a car with 40% interest. I need the car so I'm going to do what I got to do and you're putting them in a house 444 and they are already behind the 8-ball as far as being efficient and a long-term solution. I understand there is a short- 445 term solution, I am completely in agreement with you. If they are building a home, park it temporarily and get it off when 446 done building the home. Long-term, I just don't see why you would want to let that in the door so that these 447 underprivileged or low-income people just have to pay exorbitant heating and air-conditioning costs because the thing is 448 not efficient. They are built to federal standards and not state and local regulation. I find it hard to believe that these 449 people are manufacturing something that is going to be of value to the low-income. 450 451 Beth Bronson: This opens up a market for secondary mobile home purchases. To Melissa's point, and staffs, in adding 452 it you are expanding your options for the community to have access to affordable housing. Or giving access to families to 453 incorporate the needs of their parents or children. For reasons that are none of our business, as to why they might need 454 an accessory dwelling unit that might need to be a mobile home that wouldn't be up to your standards personally but that 455 are federal standards that are already set and that information is available going into bringing that mobile home onto 456 their property. 457 458 Adam Beeman: It starts at$40,000 up to$150,000 and I don't see$150,000 for a trailer when you could build the same 459 stick built thing for an equivalent price and have something that is appreciating in value. 460 461 Charity Kirk: That's not up to us to give people that value judgement. 462 463 Statler Gilfillen: Forget about homes,we have a lot of existing old antique farm houses without building on there that are 464 no longer functioning as farms in Orange County. The option, the existing house may have an updated septic system 465 more than adequate for the house the question becomes the conversion of the outbuildings into what might be an 800 466 sq.ft, less than 1,000 sq.ft. unit that follows the historic configuration of that site. Under this ordinance,you are only 467 allowed 1 unit on your site. 468 469 Tyler Sliger: Yes. 470 471 Statler Gilfillen: You have the right to appeal for the possibility for a second one and I raise the question on this 472 financially, as an architect, if someone owns an existing house and a shedthat are in exceptionally good condition, or 473 were historically there,to rebuild them on that site is visually a positive thing and for the owner,where it is tied together 474 as one system,you've got a landlord sitting right there on the site to control how it is rented. That can be a very positive 475 social aspect of this type of law. To allow more than one unit on a site. The construction standards typically with tiny 476 houses not with the trailers that are bought from the cheapest vendor. 477 478 Tyler Sliger: Anything that is proposed is going to have to be passed by building inspections. 479 480 Statler Gilfillen: Is it possible to put a second unit on a site like that within an appeal. 481 482 Tyler Sliger: Possibly,that would be up to the Board of Adjustment. 483 484 Lamar Proctor: I do have concerns that as soon as you allow this everyone in the County could conceivably pop a 485 mobile home on their property,get approval and start and become landlords. 486 487 Tyler Sliger: They can do that right now. 488 489 Melissa Poole: You are focusing on the mobile home when there are a lot of people. 490 491 Adam Beeman: I understand that we need affordable housing but I think the County could go ahead and come up with 492 some generic blueprints for a home equal to the size of the trailer and that people would know the County has already