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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 [4] No ❑ <br />F:\Community Development\SHIP\AIIAC- Affordable Housing Advisory Committee (AHAQ\AHAC 2017\AHAC 2017 14 P,' 6 <br />report.doc <br />