Dear Tiny Home Supporters! We need your help!
As many of you know since you have been following our story, we filed a lawsuit against the City of Alachua to allow us to keep our tiny homes. The City has delayed this lawsuit moving forward repeatedly, avoiding service, then requesting an extension, and then finally on the last day of the extension grace period, filing a motion to request a more specific motion, where they nitpicked at a few sentences in our motion that they claimed were too vague to form a response to. Our attorney filed the more specific response they requested, however...
Meanwhile, they have been busy pushing through an agenda to change their codes, in order to no longer allow us to use our tiny homes on Airbnb. Surely, the fact that they are now trying to quickly change their codes in the midst of our lawsuit, is good evidence that we were originally permitted to Airbnb our tiny homes based on the codes they have always had, and that they were wrong in shutting our Airbnb on no legitimate grounds. Now they are trying to cover it up by changing their codes unnoticed.
Here is their agenda:
Feb14thPlanningandZoningAgenda
If you go to page 639, you will find the proposed changes for RV codes for the City of Alachua, which we have screenshotted and attached as a photo in this update.
This new code amendment would make it a code violation to Airbnb any RV or Tiny Home on wheels on any property in the City of Alachua, residential or agricultural. It would also be a code violation to host your own family or friends in an RV or tiny home on your property, without a permit. It would also be a code violation to host your own friends or family in an RV on your property for more than a total of 14 days in a 6 month period, permit or not.
Here, you can find the meeting schedules and agendas:
https://alachua.novusagenda.com/AgendaPublic/
The relevant meeting says Planning and Zoning Board Meeting at the James A. Lewis Commission Chambers, at 6pm on Tuesday February 14th.
PLEASE attend this meeting with us!! At the end of the meeting they will open it up for citizens comments, to which we can stand together and oppose these amendments, &/or ask clarifying questions regarding them.
Thank you all for your ongoing support!!