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Home My WebLink About11/27/2018 Item 11, Carr (2) Purrington, Teresa From:Kimberly <KCarr@TipsFromSurvivors.com> Sent:Tuesday, November 27, 2018 12:38 PM To:E-mail Council Website Subject:URGENT. Tiny home comments for 11 27 meeting Attachments:Feedback for Tiny Homes Ordinance 11 27 18 by Kimberly Carr TipsFromSurvivors.docx Importance:High Hello, I'm so sorry I could not provide comment sooner for your proposed ordinance. I am helping with emergency housing in Paradise California and cannot be present tonight at the meeting. My comments are attached. Here's the internet link with a video from Paradise. https://www.tipsfromsurvivors.org/tinyhomepolicy1/ -- TipsFromSurvivors.org ~ Lessons from those who lost their homes so you can protect yours & recover faster if you do. 1 Public Comment on Tiny Homes Nov. 27, 2018 Provided by Kimberly Carr, TipsFromSurvivors.org Planned Public Comment Speech, If I Can Find a Speaker on my Behalf My name is ____________. I am speaking for Kimberly Carr of TipsFromSurvivors.org who has been offering you advice for the support of tiny home policy adoption. She's currently in Paradise, California helping with the adoption of emergency housing policy based on her fire storm experience. You are invited to visit her website to see a video from the Mayor of Paradise. It's quite remarkable that over 15,000 homes were destroyed and most businesses in town. Over 60,000 people are displaced. Hundreds are still missing and assumed to be dead. The housing market is beginning a sharp upward price trend. We can be a model for using tiny homes in disaster relief. Innovation is not possible in a disaster. In reviewing your progressive ordinance and as a potential model for the state of California, Kimberly sees 3 deficiencies to large scale adoption. The biggest issue is providing deed restrictions on pricing of the rental of these homes which should be addressed today. The other 2 big issues can be improved as we go  Improvement needed on energy efficiency/insulation  Assure structural integrity of chassis and axles so they don't break on the road. Specific feedback on your draft ordinance were provided late due to the situation in Paradise, 1. Kimberly encourages the adoption of tiny homes WITHOUT EXCEPTION, ONLY IF CERTIFIED BY A 3RD PARTY STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. This is required for financing, insurance and resale in other jurisdictions. All documentation of compliance should be kept for the life of the tiny home. You want units that can be financed, insured and resold in ANY municipality with proof of compliance. The city staff can't and should not do this. 2. On design no monolithic walls due to maintenance problems. 3. No 5 year owner occupancy exemptions because people game the system. 4. On design, no monolithic siding. Results in high incidence of unmitigated water damage. The rest of Kimberly's public comment must focus on deed restrictions for pricing of tiny home rentals. She recommends that you tie the upward rental limit to the price set by HASLO for a studio rental. Public Comment on Tiny Homes Nov. 27, 2018 Provided by Kimberly Carr, TipsFromSurvivors.org . We MUST deal with affordability NOW, otherwise this new privilege offered will become seen as an entitlement instead of a privilege. It will become another financial opportunity to exploit by investors or anyone looking to subsidize the mortgage of their personal residence to the highest bidder. AirBnB was a perfect example of that market behavior. Developing tiny homes is only a 1/4 of the cost and time of developing a traditional accessory structure, and so such a compromise is perfectly reasonable to ask. If ALL housing stock continues to go to the highest bidder this city WILL give away more housing to investors. Your owner occupancy is already a staggering low of 35%. ~ ~ In a disaster your population will evaporate because the economic ability and incentive of residents to stay will be ridiculously low. Take a look at the video of Paradise Mayor Jody Jones on Kimberly's website TipsFromSurvivors. Imagine council members any of YOU standing in that mayor's shoes. Would you want bad financial decisions of your city's past to determine your disaster recovery potential? This video gives you insight into the new world Paradise faces toward recovery. What will we do to reduce damage in the housing market? And to avoid further ECONOMIC damage by speculators?!! A handful of investors bought most of the undamaged inventory on the market within 5 days of the fire!!! Public Comment on Tiny Homes Nov. 27, 2018 Provided by Kimberly Carr, TipsFromSurvivors.org BELOW ARE SPECIFIC COMMENTS ON THE LANGUAGE OF THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE Page 294 - SECTION 17, OWNER OCCUPANCY. Disagree with giving 5 years of exemption. Tax law provides a loophole for gaming the system. Investors can drive up price of sale and rental by renting to highest bidder, get a owner occupancy exemption AND potentially get a capital gains exclusion of $250-500k? How are you going to "police" the integrity of that?? Don't agree with offering this at all. Page 295 - SECTION 19. SUBSECTION E1c. DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, PROPERTY MAINTENANCE STANDARDS refers to a chapter 17.76 "Property Maintenance Standards" Mostly referring to homes other than tiny, but these rules will apply to them too. Note roof-top equipment conflicts a little with tiny home specific design ordinance. Solar hot water and electric should be allowed on roof at a minimum. All looks reasonable and well considered. Parking may be future challenge. Page 295 - SECTION 19. SUBSECTION E1e. DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, SIZE. Correction. 400 feet. is what you agreed to. Understand logic. Still think 300 is going to be your average size. Building larger could result in axle overload. We will learn as we go. Page 296 - SECTION 19. SUBSECTION E1g. DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, DESIGN. Good. I would add no monolithic walls. The problem RVs have had is their difficult in repairing water damage because it involves specialized tools and techniques. It can be much more expensive and burdensome to repair water damage. Thus resulting in a higher incidence of un-mitigated damage. Public Comment on Tiny Homes Nov. 27, 2018 Provided by Kimberly Carr, TipsFromSurvivors.org Page 296. SECTION 19. SUBSECTION E2. MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT. Again, solar equipment should be explicitly allowed and encouraged. Page 296-7 8. SECTION 19. SUBSECTION E8b PROCEDURE REQUIREMENTS, STRUCTURAL CERTIFICATION. It is my STRONG OPINION that ALL units should be certified by a 3rd party structural engineer with no exception. All documentation of compliance should be kept for the life of the tiny home. You want units that can be financed, insured and resold in ANY municipality with proof of compliance. The city staff can't and should not do this. All tiny homes must be licensed and registered with DMV. Page 297 SECTION 19. SUBSECTION E8d PROCEDURE REQUIREMENTS, DEED RECORDING. This is where we should be talking about restricting rental pricing of this unit to the HASLO standard for a studio apartment. (SEE COMMENTS ABOVE)