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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-07-25 | 6 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON Tuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m. Jen Barrett: Great. Thanks. Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Barrett. Commissioner Hall? Lisa Hall: Thank you Andrew, once again, for all your hard work. I just really want to say thank you to Susan, Andrew, and Audrey for their work the last five years that they've done. I know it's been a lot of hard work on your part, and I'm so happy to see it coming to fruition. Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. Commissioner Mills? Tom Mills: Yes, how does this apply I own my own house. I'm eventually going to be disabled, where I've already earthquake-proofed the basement, raised the house, but every time I've gone and applied to do some work underneath there I was stopped by a city council member of long ago. She's dead and gone. And I just wonder, if. I agree with 90% of what's in here. That's the only question. Andrew Thomas: Yes, these are a set of regulations for new housing developments. So if it does not apply to existing home owners, who are coming in to remodel their kitchen or add a bedroom, they're exempt. Accessory dwelling units, which are now heavily regulated by the state are exempt. If you're just building a little cottage in your backyard. Although we think, actually the ones that we've approved when you actually look at the little floor plan or cottage in the backyard of an Alameda property it's actually very easy to make it accessible. But there's a number of things that are changing. This certainly won't get in your way of being able to modify your basement, and for different reasons with different ordinances, the Planning Board and the city council have recently adjusted a number of city regulations to which had making it very difficult for Alameda residents to convert basements to living space and things like that. So you should try again. Tom Mills: The closeness of the houses, my neighbor's house is only 3 feet, 2 feet at the roof line. And it's been empty since Kerr passed away, and they want put four units in. Now there's been homeless people living in there. I'm like a cat on steroids all the time waiting for the place to go up in flames. And nobody's watching. Are they going to do something there? Andrew Thomas: You should give our building official Greg McFann a call, I can get you hooked up, their code enforcement. I know of the property you're talking about. Laws in California make it difficult. There's a process but the idea that the city can just go in there and clean things up and everything has to go through the court system when you're dealing with a situation like this. It's a very slow, very tedious, very time consuming process. If somebody in the family or somebody in the ownership structure of the property doesn't take control and do it themselves, when the city has to step in and try to do the things it's brutally difficult. Tom Mills: I had an issue with the CDC had come in and did a soil sample in the back of their yard, and it was not habitable for humans. Andrew Thomas: I can get you hooked up with the right people who can answer your questions. October 11, 2017 Page 6 of 13 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf |