Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Limits on rentals with or without absentee landlords

[Joyce Cheney (jcheneyjc]

Added units can also affect requirements for parking and separate insurance. Jc

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> On Jul 7, 2023, at 7:35 AM, Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Sort of depends on local (municipal) zoning and health codes.  Most places, 
> there are no restrictions on (and no enforcement options preventing) renting 
> out a room or two to relatives or friends.  Not even if such rooms include a 
> “private” bathroom (since there are usually no limits on how many bathrooms 
> you can have in your house).  However …
> 
> There are a lot of zoning, public health, and building code definitions and 
> rules about "accessory apartments” serving as “separate dwelling units".  How 
> such apartments get defined and identified can be fuzzy, but it usually has 
> something to do with a combo of legal means of egress, sanitation amenity 
> (“bathroom"), cooking facility (“kitchen”), and presence of recognizable 
> "bedrooms".  Some or many zoning districts prohibit accessory apartments.  
> Others do not care about the distinction between owned and rented dwelling 
> units, but count all identifiable units as falling within an upper limit of 
> dwelling units per acre or lot size (a “density" measure).
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> Thanks, RPD
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> On July 7, 2023 at 9:14:28 AM, Sharon Miller (slmiller.325 [at] gmail.com) 
> wrote:
> 
> I think “mother-in-law” basement apartments, or apartments added on to an 
> existing home, do not count towards the 25%. These are more like renting out 
> a room. And you are right - they can make a mortgage more affordable to the 
> homeowner while also providing homes to people who can’t afford to buy. It’s 
> a win-win I think. Sharon Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 7, 2023, at 4:25 AM, 
> Ross Andrew Simons wrote: > > Very interesting. > > Do you think walk-out 
> basement / in-law style apartments would be a way of > getting around that?
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