Arizona school district invests in tiny homes

[kalakoa]

It would help young teachers in many ways.

It would also help hotel workers, really anyone with "less than median income".

[terracore]

I know a guy who lives in Bend, Oregon in a house just under 2,000 square feet. Because the rent is so high he has four other roomates. So they have each less than 400 square feet per person and no real privacy.

People are already living in small footprints. It's time for the building codes and communities to allow them to live in houses that give them more privacy and independence for people who want it.

[kalakoa]

time for the building codes and communities to allow

No, code compliance is far more important than people being able to afford a home.

[MarkD]

Great idea. It'll help teachers, all sorts of low income people. And homeless native Hawaiians. The state has been foot dragging for years on moving towards small and micro housing.

We've seen a little bit of movement the past couple of years with some of the homeless housing. Need much more action.

More small housing--some with wheels! micro houses

[randomq]

The point at which code compliance forces people to be homeless, it is no longer making them "safe".

[Guest]

Nanawale is 600 or 650 ? Jeez thats huge.

[EightFingers]

So I see on KITV news tonight they say Hawaii ranks the lowest in the US for teacher salaries. So I spend some time on Google checking this out and I can’t find any website that shows Hawaii as anything other than being at least in the top third of the country. For any year, any level.
Am I missing something?

[PaulW]

Maybe relative to cost of living?

[kalakoa]

Section 25-5-31. Designation and density of RM districts.
(a) Each RM (multiple-family residential) district shall be designated on the zoning map by the symbol RM followed by a number which indicates the required land area, in thousands of square feet, for each dwelling unit or for each separate rentable unit in the case of boarding, rooming, or lodging houses, fraternity or sorority houses.
© The maximum density designation in the RM district shall be .75 or seven hundred fifty square feet of land area per dwelling unit or separate rentable unit.

Section 25-5-38. Other regulations.
(a) There may be more than one main building on any building site in the RM district.
(b) Distance between main buildings on the same building site in the RM district shall be at least fifteen feet.
© Plan approval shall be required for all new buildings and additions to existing buildings in the RM district, except for construction of one single-family dwelling and any accessory buildings per lot.
(d) Exceptions to the regulations for the RM district regarding heights, building site areas, building site average widths and yards, may be approved by the director within a planned unit development.

County can already approve a "tiny house subdivision" under existing codes. Note especially the part where a "planned unit development" may waive any requirements "at the discretion of the director".

Of course, if such a project were built by DOE, they could use their magical State powers to ignore all the County building and planning codes.

[EightFingers]

Paul, yes I get that, but it wasn’t what Robert K. Was saying.