District of Clearwater town council wants staff to bring back more information on the legalities of zoning and secondary rental units.Council gave the instruction to staff during its June 17 meeting, with results due back be October.
The District has received a zoning application that wold allow a mobile home to be placed on a residential property for the care of the owner’s parents, explained councillor Merlin Blackwell.
Present zoning regulations require that there be a doctor’s note before such a variance be allowed.If the parents’ health improves then, theoretically, the doctor’s note would no longer apply and the mobile home would have to be removed.
“We need to look at this again, with an aging population,” Blackwell said. “It would be better if people didn’t have to wait until the situation becomes critical.”
