The Octogenarians’ housing is interesting. Not sure what can be done, legally, with the nest of laws and ordinances that locked it in place.
Maybe do zoning regs plot-by-plot? Grandfather-in (NPI, but it works beautifully….) for existing owners, but they go away when the owner sells or dies?
This is the sort of thing that does get the neighbors all upset in the suburbs, but you should see what a proposal like that would do to a semi-rural area. GollyBobHowdy, do the natives ever get incensed! As one approaching octogenarian status, I can't say as I'd hate it, but it surely would be an anomaly out here in the sticks.
I agree, but this is one of the things where decision-making above the local level can be beneficial. The HOA might be upset, but the change was made in the State Capitol...
(Where I live, VA, this is kind of how the system is set up for everything....and newcomers are dumbstruck that they're blessed local regs get obliterated by something that happens in Richmond..all the time...)
My SIL lives in VA... and I've definitely heard about HOAs & the "Richmond Issues!" The patchwork of regs for housing here in MI persists. Unfortunately, the state sees standardizing regs for unpopular things like landfills, gravel mines, and now data centers, as more important than providing more housing for the elderly. *shrugs*
The Octogenarians’ housing is interesting. Not sure what can be done, legally, with the nest of laws and ordinances that locked it in place.
Maybe do zoning regs plot-by-plot? Grandfather-in (NPI, but it works beautifully….) for existing owners, but they go away when the owner sells or dies?
This is the sort of thing that does get the neighbors all upset in the suburbs, but you should see what a proposal like that would do to a semi-rural area. GollyBobHowdy, do the natives ever get incensed! As one approaching octogenarian status, I can't say as I'd hate it, but it surely would be an anomaly out here in the sticks.
I agree, but this is one of the things where decision-making above the local level can be beneficial. The HOA might be upset, but the change was made in the State Capitol...
(Where I live, VA, this is kind of how the system is set up for everything....and newcomers are dumbstruck that they're blessed local regs get obliterated by something that happens in Richmond..all the time...)
My SIL lives in VA... and I've definitely heard about HOAs & the "Richmond Issues!" The patchwork of regs for housing here in MI persists. Unfortunately, the state sees standardizing regs for unpopular things like landfills, gravel mines, and now data centers, as more important than providing more housing for the elderly. *shrugs*