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9. One (1) off-street parking space shall be provided for the accessory dwelling unit in addition to <br /> spaces required for the principal dwelling unit. <br /> 10. The accessory dwelling unit shall be serviced by centralized water and wastewater, or meet the <br /> environmental health department's well and septic tank and drain field requirements. Modification, <br /> expansion or installation of well and/or septic tank facilities to serve the accessory dwelling unit shall be <br /> designed in a manner that does not render any adjacent vacant properties "unbuildable" for <br /> development when well and/or septic tank facilities would be required to service development on those <br /> adjacent properties. <br /> 11. No accessory dwelling unit shall be sold separately from the principal dwelling unit. The accessory <br /> dwelling unit and the principal dwelling unit shall be located on a single lot or parcel or on a <br /> combination of lots or parcels unified under a recorded unity of title document. <br /> 12. An accessory dwelling unit shall be treated as a multi family unit for traffic impact fee and traffic <br /> concurrency purposes,and the concurrency requirements of Chapter 910 for a multi family unit shall be <br /> satisfied. <br /> ANALYSIS: <br /> On September 29, 1992, the Board of County Commissioners adopted the county's <br /> accessory dwelling unit provision. In Indian River County, accessory dwelling units are <br /> allowed in all residential zoning districts. In addition to allowing for these smaller units, <br /> Section 971.41(10) of the county's land development regulations establishes specific land <br /> use criteria to regulate the size, location and appearance of these units and prevent over <br /> crowding. <br /> Even though the county has allowed accessory dwelling units since 1992, these type of <br /> units were not popular until 2004, when the price of land and housing started to increase. <br /> When housing affordability became an issue, more people started looking at ways to <br /> create affordable housing units. One method was to build more accessory dwelling units. <br /> These types of units are appropriate as affordable housing units. <br /> RECOMMENDATION: <br /> The county's accessory dwelling unit provision is appropriate and should be maintained. <br /> BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACTION: <br /> Board of County Commissioners Approval of the AHAC Recommendation <br /> Yes [J] No ❑ <br /> F:ACommunity Development\SHIP\AHAC-Affordable Housing Advisory Committee(AHAC)AAHAC 2017\AHAC 2017 14 <br /> report.doc <br />