2021-12-13 GC Agenda - Item 8 -Attachment 1 - Housing Needs Assessment

18.4        Disability Housing
The planning scheme could specifically support specialist disability accommodation in multiple
housing scenarios. While a single shared house is reasonably well catered for, scenarios of dual
occupancies or multiple dwellings not so. The Community Facilities Zone should allow for these uses
where they specifically meet the robust, fully accessible or high physical support design criteria of
the SDA guidelines. It’s noted that there is no guarantee housing stays in this scheme long term.
The uses could be made consistent where providing Specialist Disability Accommodation under the
National Disability Insurance Scheme and performance criteria should specify the categories of SDA
design expected. This approach has the potential to make a difference in places such as Cooroy,
Tewantin and Pomona and possible on lands owned by churches or community organisations.
Ideally it would home people whose housing choices are very limited in the broader market.
18.5        Relocatable Home Parks
Relocatable home park could be made a consistent use in the Community Facilities Zone as
Retirement Facilities already are.
Further relocatable home parks could be added as a consistent use in the Recreation and Open
Space zone where on State or Council owned land. This would facilitate the parking of small
manufactured homes where there are amenities and casual surveillance, such as at sports grounds.
The Special Residential Code should be reviewed to ensure relocatable homes are providing modest
housing. As an example currently the relevant use code requires that no single relocatable home
exceeds a gross floor area of 120m2. As this is sufficient for a 3 bedroom, two bathroom dwelling it
is suggested that where they are specifically or exclusively for residents over 55 it be limited further
to small dwellings. This makes them more consistent with the retirement village independent living
units.
18.6        Auxiliary Units
If, as has been determined by legal and policy advisers, a secondary dwelling must only be occupied
by part of the one household living in the balance of the house, occupation by other individuals is
not lawful and therefore has only limited application within the housing solution.
       Logan City Council has adopted an approach of defining an “Auxiliary Unit” which is a form
       of a Dual Occupancy where both dwellings are owned by the same person on one title and
       the auxiliary unit is subject to specific size and siting requirements. These effectively have
       the same physical characteristics as a secondary dwelling but can be occupied by a separate
       household to the main dwelling. Figure 38 below illustrates the difference. Infrastructure
       charges are not applicable for a Secondary dwelling, however since July 2018 Logan City
       Council started applying infrastructure charges for Auxiliary units, at a rate of 50% of the
       maximum adopted charge for a Dual occupancy of 2 or less bedrooms (currently in the order
       of $16,000).




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