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Find and maintain a map for tiny-house friendly land / communities #174

Open t829702 opened 5 years ago

t829702 commented 5 years ago

from https://www.moneycrashers.com/living-tiny-house-movement-plans/

The tiny home movement has gone mainstream in the last few years thanks to TV shows

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However, it also comes with some disadvantages, a major one is the Zoning Rules among many places across the States, while, Texas is relatively more friendly to Tiny Houses, it's still hard to find a land which comes with less deeds restrictions, and majority of the neighborhoods require to build a house 2000+ sq ft, whatever how many people are living there;

I wish:

  1. to create a map in the beginning to track pieces of land with what's minimum construction size from deeds restrictions,
betterways commented 5 years ago

You know there is a local tiny house group that works on policy. It's called LITLE - Local Initiatives for Tiny Living Environments. There is a facebook group. They held a conference a year or so ago and 250 people attended. The former director of Houston's permitting office is a member so is very knowledgeable about policy.

t829702 commented 5 years ago

So far still at phase of collecting data, from city gov website or anywhere, have tried to search the " LITLE - Local Initiatives for Tiny Living Environments " you mentioned, but got nowhere, so any link is appreciated

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  1. http://spur.lifeonthe.cloud Welcome to Spur, Texas. The nation's first 'tiny' house friendly town;
  2. https://www.moving.com/tips/5-tiny-house-friendly-cities-in-america/ mentioned [Brevard, NC] [Green Bridge Farm in Guyton, GA] [Spur, TX] [Fresno, CA] [River View at Cleora in Salida, CO] 5 places, but to the whole size of United States, the friendly places are still too few, especially when people want to live closer (within 2 hours drive) to a major metropolitan area (with 1m+ population);
  3. the definition for tiny still varies, to most Americans, a house smaller than 1200 sq ft is tiny, but, if speak internationally, among Canada, Australia, and many places in Asia, where a typical 3-4 persons family (2 adults and 1-2 children) can comfortably live at 100 sq meter (to ~1000 sq ft) house, why can't do the same in the United States? especially when land is cheap to buy for a 5000 sq ft in Texas, why many US city Zoning Rules can't allow build a house at 1200 sq ft?
BryanH commented 5 years ago

@t829702