In a message dated 10/7/03 11:34:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:WM: This a different understanding than someone with a six bedroom house, for example, wanting to use all six rooms to house an "affinity family," for want of a better term. It doesn't qualify as a single family because the people within are not blood relatives. Yet it should be able to so qualify unless the code is written to enforce the singular notion of family as a blood relationship.
Keith says; Perhaps the issue would be that at some point, or level of occupancy, say a 12 bedroom house with 18 unrelated occupants (some "rooms" accommodating couples) you have the equivalent of a 12 unit apartment building in a residential block that is zoned R-2.
To boot, because of the budget, bottom of the housing market, nature of "rooms for rent, shared kitchen and bath", you are bound to have more turn over, less accountability and respect for the digs, and all else one might fear from a less desirable housing option.WM: To me, this brings up a different issue. This city once had a fair number of boarding houses. They've been x-ed out of the code except in instances of Rule ?? board and care homes, shelters, and half-way houses. That was probably a mistake. At the same time we used to have YMCA and YWCA rooming houses with shared bathrooms and cafeterias. They're gone too, which leads to a lot of homelessness for young people.
WizardMarks, Central
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