Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse
'Strategy of the Month
Club' for May 2006: Statewide
Protection for Accessory
Dwellings
If your state or community wants to
promote accessory
dwellings (also known as in-law apartments
or 'granny
flats') as part of its overall affordable
housing
strategy, you might be interested in
a new campaign
launched by the State of Vermont. Last
year, the
legislature revised state law to require
that local
governments permit one accessory dwelling
unit per
single-family house, provided that certain
conditions
are met. In order to promote accessory
dwellings and the
new state law, the Vermont Department
of Housing and
Community Affairs produced a brochure
describing issues
that owners should consider when deciding
whether to
construct an accessory dwelling unit.
The brochure
outlines conditions under which local
governments must
permit the accessory dwelling, and provides
descriptions
of state permitting issues, landlord-tenant
laws, fair
housing, and property and income tax
issues that might
influence an owner's decision to build
an accessory unit.
You can view a copy of this informative
brochure
at https://www.huduser.gov/rbc/search/rbcdetails.asp?DocId=1317.
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