Do you ask for permission or forgiveness? What type of person are you?
My suggestion to people is to just build it, have your disability story ready (tenant is disabled or homeowner is disabled- and caretaker lives in the tiny house), and just go on about your business. You can go for years (or ever) and pay off the tiny house and make some money before getting a knock on the door from the city. And if that happens, 4th amendment applies, and you can still get a retroactive permit, if you want, invoking the Fair Housing Act for disability. And, a 1% disability still counts. It's like being 1% pregnant. And, medical records are PRIVATE. No ding-bat bureaucrat at the "building department" is entitled to a copy under another federal law- HIPAA. You only have to have those records, as evidence, in case you have to flash them to the judge (if it ever gets that far....so far none of my clients have- the city just backs off completely when invoking this law, because they don't feel like getting investigated for HOUSING DISCRIMINATION by the feds, much less fight the DOJ and lose in court, if they want to go there- go read the cases- the city loses EVERY TIME....invoking federal law....it's like garlic to a vampire...the code people hiss, but go away, searching for easier prey).
It's so funny how subservient you all have become to "code" when "code" is not "law." We, as American's, have fallen so far from understanding who we ARE, and instead now take orders from bureaucrats. It was NEVER supposed to be that way. The "out" that I'm giving you is a federal law (superior to any local code under a thing called the constitution- have you ever read it? It's so funny, because few people actually have- it's only 11 pages for Christ's sake...but worse, few people understand the history behind it, or the legal precedents/miracles it created). FEDERAL LAW IS SUPERIOR TO ANY STUPID CITY CODE!!!! Please re-read that sentence if you don't understand.
If you want to apply federal law, you have to ASK, or INVOKE (like sending a letter- I prefer certified) because a code idiot/official will say "I can't give you legal advice." They will tell you NOTHING about federal law exemptions, while happily running you in circles with "code." However, if you do not ASK you do not GET, so play in their sandbox you all will continue to play. If you don't ask for federal protection, then the retard behind the desk will assume you are a government employee, because you didn't say otherwise, so you get CODE, and they will keep the conversation in CODE, because you don't know any better, and neither do they!!!! However, if you ask for "reasonable accommodation" under federal law, you will turn the tables, and now the conversation is "how can the city accommodate me? And further, how can the city do that now that the unit is occupied?" (hint: do you want permission or forgiveness, because you can't have both....well you can...if you ASK). Now that you've REQUESTED, they now have to ACT according to federal law, and CHANGE their "code" if necessary to accommodate the situation- don't believe me? Go read the court cases- I think I mentioned the Boca Raton case....it's excellent.
What's reasonable? Well, that's really up to you, isn't it? Or a court...but it should never get that far, because the city has already given up, usually. So, if you (your tenant living in the tiny house) don't have a dog that bites neighbors, or mental disorder that has you getting into fist fights with your neighbors (either would invoke the "direct threat" exception to the Fair Housing Act), you can basically do WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT, as long as it's "reasonable" to the DISABILITY involved. Seen a "no pets allowed...except service animals" sign lately? Same legal concept ("reasonable accommodation" because to do otherwise would be essentially denying some people the right to shop for groceries). You are just applying the principle to housing.
Why do you think building departments and housing generally are such an expensive PITA?
What we have today is a near perversion of the Common law, and it has been slipped into Equity law. For those who have studied law, this should evoke some nodding heads. One has to ask "Cui Bono" and run down the rabbit hole as to "why?" However, it's a big problem, and the longer that people remain ignorant, and not push-back, more and more rights will be taken away. All of you guys are STUCK in obedience to "authority" (a good movie, by the way, if you can stomach the 45 minutes of exposure by Dr. Milgram, as he demonstrates how average people could kill their neighbor, simply because they are told to...think about it...it happened not that long ago). The Stanford Prison Experiment elicited a similar telling.
All codes, rules, and regulations are for government authorities only, not human/Creators in accord with God’s Laws. “All codes, rules, and regulations are unconstitutional and lacking due process of Law..”(Rodriques v. Ray Donavan, U.S. Department of Labor, 769 F.2d 1344, 1348 (1985)); …lacking due process of law, in that they are ‘void for ambiguity’ in their failure to specify the statutes’ applicability to ‘natural persons,’ otherwise depriving the same of fair notice, as their construction by definition of terms aptly identifies the applicability of such statutes to “artificial or fictional corporate entities or ‘persons’, creatures of statute, or those by contract employed as agents or representatives, departmental subdivisions, offices, officers, and property of the government, but not the ‘Natural Person’ or American citizen Immune from such jurisdiction of legalism.A “Statute’ is not a Law,” (Flournoy v. First Nat. Bank of Shreveport, 197 La. 1067, 3 So.2d 244, 248),“A “Code’ or Statute’ is not a Law,” (Flournoy v. First Nat. Bank of Shreveport, 197 La. 1067, 3 So.2d 244, 248),A “Code’ is not a Law,” (In Re Self v Rhay Wn 2d 261), in point of fact in Law,).
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered... I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.” ---Thomas Jefferson “The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.” -Lord Acton (ever heard "absolutely power corrupts absolutely?" Same guy)
― Lord Acton
