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Plans are underway for the city of Sturgis to bring market-rate housing through what is called a tiny homes project.
WOOD-TV reported that the property, on Prospect Street between Hatch and West streets, is enough to fit one normal-sized home. But the city’s housing commission plans to fit five “small homes” that are about the same size as a large studio apartment or small apartment, President Craig Bolthouse said.
Site plans show five, one-bed, one-bath homes, with Bolthouse saying at least one of them also being Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant. Each will be at least 32 feet long and 20 feet wide, with square footage ranging from 460 to more than 570.
Bolthouse approximates the project’s cost, including construction, permits and utility, to total at least $600,000, which would be funded through federal Department of Housing and Urban Development grants.
Priced at market rate, the homes will be leased with either a one-year option or a five-year option that requires having a financial advisor to help the tenants build their credit.
So anyone in Sturgis can put up a 460 square foot building on their property and live in it as long as it’s ADA compliant? And 2 people can live in it? And I can charge them rent? And not one board or commission official will bother or fine them? Our 2 car garage is bigger than their houses.
Isn’t great how city officials can ignore the laws they force the rest of us to follow? Down to the minimum square footage we must have to meet the International Building Code? Just control the game.