Owner of Naramata, B.C. tiny home pushing for change
Global News
The owner of a tiny home in Naramata recently won her pitch for a temporary use permit but is now calling for a change in regulations both locally and provincially.
Tucked away at the back of a Naramata, B.C., property, Adrienne Fedrigo and her family live in a tiny home adjacent to her parents’ house.
Fedrigo, who is also the chair of the Tiny Home Builders Association, says tiny home living has become more popular over the last few years due to the cost of living.
“It’s a great option where we’re on the same parcel as my parents, it gives them that option to age in place, allows family to be close by and helps with their mental health and their well-being. We are on a half-acre parcel with lots going on, so it gives them that opportunity to have family close by to assist with anything around the yard,” said Fedrigo.
“It provides our younger family who’s very prevalent in the community a place to live, it gives us our autonomy in our own house that’s just kind of tucked away in the corner with minimal environmental impact and it allows us to stay here in that affordable and attainable kind of way. And if life gives us different opportunities elsewhere, then our house can come with us.”
The tiny home on wheels is the only one located in Naramata, and until recently the Fedrigo family had been living there without an issue.
“A complaint had come in from a resident within Naramata and so then it had gone to the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) under a temporary use permit process up until this point,” said Fedrigo.
According to Fedrigo, their tiny home is ‘CSA Z240 RV’ built to a specific building code, however, bylaws do not allow residents to live in an RV full time within the regional district.
“Ours is technically still built as an RV but the structure is built more to the housing code, but because there isn’t a standard designed specifically for tiny homes on wheels, tiny home builders are stuck in that do you build under the BC Building Code, but there isn’t a specific one, or do they build as a CSA,” said
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