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your support. WRAL reporting that more North Carolina property owners
would get new freedoms under a bill proposed by North
Carolina state lawmakers giving us freedoms. The House Committee on
Regulatory Reform gave preliminary approval to a bill that would
allow many North Carolinians to build at least one eight
hundred square foot accessory dwelling unit on their property, provided
it doesn't violate the neighborhood private covenants.
Speaker 2: In other words, your hoa okay.
Speaker 1: So if your HOA doesn't allow you to build the
accessory dwelling unit commonly referred to as an ADU or
a do if you will. As long as your HOA
doesn't ban them, then a city cannot.
Speaker 2: Okay. So if you're if they're in.
Speaker 1: Every HOA has what's called CCRs covenants, codes and restrictions. Right,
these are your rules that you have to abide by.
They're very difficult to change, like usually it takes like
two thirds of all of the the residents to make
any changes to them. So if you allow, if you're
not allowed, if your HOA says you can't do it,
then you can't do it. But if you don't live
in an HOA, or your HOA allows you to build
these things, then you would be allowed to do something
with your own property. Wow, this is an amazing concept.
You can build an eight hundred square foot granny flat,
that's what we always used to call them, or you know,
an in law suite or something. There are different names
for them. You don't have to call it. No, you
don't have to call it that. But anyway, Accessory dwelling
units or ad us sometimes referred to as the granny
flats or backyard homes. I've never called it that. People
use them as extra living spaces or as rental spaces.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could actually build an eight hundred square foot
granny flat back there and have an Airbnb rent it
out to somebody. Yes, you can put your in laws
in it, two whatever, stick your kid out there. When
they get too old to be living in your house,
send them out there, charge them rent whatever, income generation.
But also a pretty good starter home for people to
live in.
Speaker 2: Very small.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like it could be just a studio.
I mean, well eight hundred square feet. You can actually
have you know, a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room area.
My first house was like nine hundred and fifty square feet.
It was three bed, one bath, and a living room
in a kitchen.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, like chop out one of the one of
the bedrooms. It's a pretty good sized domicile. This is
House BILLT six two seven. It would allow North Carolina
municipalities to continue to regulate these things by restricting them
to the backyards, so you couldn't stick them in the
front yard. You could also require that they are smaller
than the main house, or you can require them to
be built a certain distance away from a street or
from a property line, so stuff like that. The cities
are still going to be to regulate, but the bill
would prohibit municipalities from banning adu's outright now, ADUs do
have some critics. They often say that they worry about
the increase in traffic, which is.
Speaker 2: Always the concern.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, every single nimbi uses traffic. It's always
the go to the first argument against any kind of
project or you know, renovation or something. It's always any
zoning petition, it's always what about the traffic, the impact
of the traffic. And to be sure, when you add
more residential you're going to get more people. That's kind
of goes hand in hand. I'm not sure if people
realize this or not, but it's true when you build
more homes, you end up with more people. And people
are traffic. You are traffic. You you are traffic. When
you are driving, you are traffic. Okay, so when you're
complaining about all of the other traffic, they're complaining about
you too, right. Just want that to be very very
clear here. And part of the deal with living in
a large metropolitan area is it's a large metropolitan areas.
That's part of the description of the thing. Lots of
people and as I just mentioned, people are traffic. So
lots of people, lots of traffic. It's like people who
move into a city and then complain about all of
the noises in the city.
Speaker 2: When look when I when.
Speaker 1: I went to work in Ashville, I I was looking
to rent an apartment because I still had the house
here in Charlotte. Christy was still working here in Charlotte,
so we kept that as our residence. And then I
went to look for a rental apartment in Ashville. And
I was just going to be basically, you know, driving
up on like Sunday night, stay there, work the week
you know, in Ashville, and then either I would come
home for the weekend or Christy would go up there
for the weekend. Well, the I went looking for apartments
and I found one. Excuse me, I found one.
Speaker 2: And if you know.
Speaker 1: Downtown Ashville, they do call it downtown, not uptown. They
downtown Ashville. There was a coffee shop called Old Europe,
and there was an apartment for rent right above the
coffee shop. And this would have fulfilled I don't want
to say a lifelong dream of mine, because it wasn't
really a dream and it was definitely not lifelong. But basically,
ever since I started watching Friends, and I was like, man,
I would love to live above.
Speaker 2: A coffee shop.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't get any sleep at all. Right, I wouldn't
need to. I'm above a coffee shop. But I loved
the idea of it right there in the heart of downtown,
you know. And the more I thought about it, and
I went downtown, I looked at the you know, looked
at the street and all and everything, and it's it's
right there in the heart of downtown. And I was like,
you know what, though, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be
that guy, you know, with the with the tank top
T shirt, you know, at two in the morning, opening
the window, screaming out, eh, keep it down out there.
I mean, I would first have to go and buy
those those T shirts, those muscle shirt t shirts, which
I don't even understand why people wear those things, because
like the whole point of the T shirt is to
like mop up the underwarm sweat, right, So like, why
do you cut that out of the T.
Speaker 2: Shirt in the first place?
Speaker 1: Anyway, so the and you can see it through your
through the white shirts like a dress shirt. Why do
people wear the muscle shirts under a dress shirt that
you could see through. It doesn't make any sense. And really, anyway,
I didn't want to be that guy, mainly because I
didn't want to wear the T shirt. But also I
knew enough about myself to know that at you know,
two in the morning, three in the morning. At my
at this point, i'm you know, I guess thirty five,
forty years old. I know, yeah, probably about forty years old.
And I just know myself, to quote Chandler bing, like,
I want to go to bed at a reasonable hour,
and that's okay, that's okay. I didn't want to live
in the downtown urban environment of Ashville. Also, it's it's
only you know, on the second floor, which basically you're
on the street then, and they have a they got
a bit of a problem in downtown Ashville.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure you're aware of this.
Speaker 1: A lot of people screaming and yelling, attacking each other
with machetes, beating drums all day, stuff like that. So
like I just I didn't want to I didn't want
to deal with it and then the protests. So I
just went in a suburban setting apartment.
Speaker 2: I just did that.
Speaker 1: But I would have loved to have done that, but
I knew that that's what you get when you go
into a city, You're gonna get those noises. It's not
on the city to accommodate you. You know, it's part
of living in a city. So critics say that they
worry about the increase in traffic and residential areas. Under
the bill, municipalities would not be allowed to require the
creation of parking spots as a condition of ADU construction.
So that's one of the ways that governments will restrict
the building is they'll say, yeah, sure you can put
in an ADU. You can build a granny flat in
your backyard. Yeah sure, you just have to dedicate a
parking space for it. Now where are you going to
do that. You can't do it on the street. You
don't on that street. So now you got to what,
widen your driveway and dedicate a parking spot for it.
You may have a double car or driveway or something,
but now you've got to dedicate one. And maybe they
do some codes on what the parking spot must have,
like the concrete wheel stops or something, maybe like a
sign for handicapped parking.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: And so there are all sorts of ways that they
can tinker with these zoning rules to basically ban the thing.
But this law says you can't do that. There's no
requirement for a parking spot. State Representative Pricey Harrison, Democrat,
Guilford County. She says the legislature shouldn't dictate a municipality's
housing rules.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: I do not like for us to step in and
tell local governments what they can and cannot do, but
I want locals to tell people what they can and
cannot do.
Speaker 2: I'm just I added that last part. That's what she's saying.
Speaker 1: She's like, Oh, the state shouldn't be telling the cities, which,
by the way, the cities are creations of the state.
They are chartered by the state. They are administrative units
of the state.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: An individual is not an administrative unit of a city.
So she doesn't want the state to dictate to its
administrative unit that it can't dictate to individuals what they
could do with.
Speaker 2: Their own property. This is what passes for leftist logic.
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restrictions on ad us. I got a couple of messages
from Paul who says, if you don't like hearing people
complain about traffic, move somewhere with no people. That's true.
That's a good piece of advice. It's just it's one
of those things every single rezoning that I ever sat
through as a reporter or watched on a government channel,
any rezoning where people did not want the project to occur,
they always cited traffic always, and I just it's like,
I don't unless you're going to say like that you
need to widen the road. And by the way, this
is that's a legitimate argument because the City of Charlotte
has not built up the infrastructure for the amount of
residential development that they have approved. Right they haven't focused
on their core functions, their core services. They do a
little bit here and there. You know, they'll make the
developer put in sidewalks, widen roads where they can. But
like my first no sorry, second house was down in
Steel Creek and we would drive when we bought the house,
it would take twenty minutes to get to work here
in we're on the sort of the west side of
uptown and Christy worked in Center City and it would
take us twenty minutes. And by the time we sold
the house, I think about six seven years later, it
took her an hour to get to work because Highway
one sixty right Steel Creek, they haven't widened it, and
it's just it's just a long, single lane of stopped
traffic two times a day. It's just awful. And they
and what prompted us to put the house on the market.
At this point, I'm working in Nashville. I'm only home
on weekends to mow the yard. Basically, she's her commute
is now an hour each way. And we see the
rezoning signs go up for some farm land. I pull
up the rezoning petition on my phone and it's like
eight hundred something units, and I'm like, this intersection is
going to be completely overwhelmed. And there's another rezoning right
across the street. It's going to be awful. And so
I said, maybe we just sell this house, and we did,
and then we took an apartment in Center City, and
then of course the riots broke out and all of that.
We're like, okay, that was a nice experiment for the
you know, year and a half.
Speaker 2: Let's get out. And that was it. We moved out
of that place.
Speaker 1: So adding the allowing people to put in these ad
us in their backyards is I think the right move.
You can't keep complaining about there not being enough housing
and housing being unaffordable and everything and not build more housing.
And this is more housing, and it's small. It's it's
starter right. You could you could rent this out to
let your kid save up money to to buy put
a down payment on a house. Somebody else wants to
live in a you know, suburban environment, good schools or something.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: They want to you know, move their parents out of
a house and into this granny flat like that's it
serves so many purposes, and yet cities block this stuff.
Denzel Burnside, the executive director of the housing advocacy group
North Carolina Housing Table, spoken in favor of the bill
at the legislature. He said ADUs are a simple and
defective solution that create more affordable homes. The News and
Observer reporting in a related story. This legislative session, dozens
of bills have been proposed to encourage developers to boost supply.
The North Carolina Housing Coalition is tracking roughly one hundred
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of them. Actually, this from Dave, who says, oh my gosh,
thank you Pete for the T shirt comment. I never
understood the muscle wife beater T shirts. A T shirt
is there to sop up under arms sweat. And here's
another thing. Have you ever seen some guy wearing one
of those muscles T shirts under a regular T shirt?
What the heck is that about?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I yeah, I don't understand it either. They serve no purpose, like, oh,
I got to cover up my stomach, Like what, I
don't get it. Just get a T shirt if you
want to show off your guns, like, just get one
with you know, the short sleeves, the shorter sleeves up there,
you know. But generally I find that the people who
wear those things don't have the guns to be showing off.
Speaker 2: So I don't get it. Email from Pete.
Speaker 1: Yes, traffic is always the argument against development until it
is not. When they were trying to get approval for
the Waiverley development at forty five in Providence, they said
traffic was going to have minimal impact because it was
only going to add about five thousand car trips to
the area. Well they were right. Traffic out there is
insane and Michael says Shopton Road West and Steel Creek
Road are both horrible in the mornings, And that is
exactly the intersection I was talking about. There is a
huge development in process right now on Sledge Road that
is going to make it double horrible. Where oh where
on Sledge I lived right off a Sledge We moved
in there and they had not redesigned that crazy three
way the triangle setup that they had there. They did
while we were there. They did realign that thing because
it was super dangerous. It was like one of the
most dangerous intersections in the city. But yeah, it's one
of those things like people complain about they're not being
enough housing, and they complain about too much apartments, too
many apartments getting built. But then they complain also about
these granny flats which would disperse housing right instead of building.
Speaker 2: You think about it.
Speaker 1: If you have a neighborhood that's a thousand hole homes
and I don't know, say two hundred of them, say
twenty percent put in a granny flat. So now that's
two hundred apartments that are not going to get built
in a two hundred unit apartment complex. And it's now
spread out over a one thousand house neighborhood. Doesn't that
sound like it's a better idea than to pack two
hundred altogether at some intersection.
Speaker 2: You know, it's one of these.
Speaker 1: Things like there isn't any there are no solutions, there
are only trade.
Speaker 2: Offs, right, and so it's one of these things.
Speaker 1: Where it's like trying to punch smoke to try to
nail people down on what exactly you're objecting to, because
I think what it comes down to is I got
my piece of paradise. I'm going to pull the ladder
up behind me. That is the prevailing sentiment in Asheville.
Every It was amazing. I've said this before. Every single
rezoning petition or development petition that came before the city
would have people show up and speak against it, and
they would all start by saying like almost and I'm
not kidding, like every single speaker would start off by
saying something like I moved to Ashville ten years ago,
and then they would proceed to explain why nobody else
should be allowed to move to Ashville. It's like I
got mine, everybody else stay out. And the only reason
that they're they're speaking in front of the city council
is because somebody else who said the same thing to
the city council lost their appeal. Right, they came out saying,
don't let that guy move in, and they lost. And
now that guy moves in, and I was like, don't
let some other person move in. They also had this
really crazy thing where it's like they didn't want anymore sprawl. Right,
that's the other thing too, We don't want to don't
approve any new subdivisions because that's sprawl. But then they
also didn't want to build tall buildings because it would
ruin the view shed is what they call it, the
view shed like a watershed, but it's the view and
you're gonna.
Speaker 2: Spoil my view. I don't want a tall building.
Speaker 1: These are people that don't even live in the city
in the downtown area. And by the way, Asheville is
only like ninety thousand people. It's the size of rock Hill, okay,
and they've got like three tall buildings. The ability to
build a new skyscraper or tall building in downtown Ashville
is so limited that I believe the guy's name is mckibbon.
Peter mckibbon, I think is his name, and he redid
the old BB and T building. It looked like a
Soviet era concrete block right in the middle of the city.
And he rehabbed the whole thing, ripped off the whole
face of it, redid it all, made it condos, and
there was like a boutique hotel on a couple of
the floors, And of course that got opposition. We don't
need any more hotels, hey, Taurus, just give us your money, though,
And they thought over this, and he had said he
could not build a tall building, so he just he
spent more to refurbish the exterior of this building, to
rip it all apart, because he knew he would never
get approval to build a skyscraper. So when that building
became available, that's what he did with it. So you
don't want to build up, you don't want to build out,
you don't want apartment buildings, you don't want ADUs, you
don't want these granny flats, and you don't want any
more housing to be built. But you also want housing
to be cheap. Oh, and you also want a lot
of you know, really high paying jobs. Guys like this
is not logical, Okay, this is.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Back to this News and Observer piece bi partisan bills
have been introduced there. The North Carolina Housing Coalitions tracking
one hundred and twenty bills and a cluster of bipartisan
bills to expand state wide housing what they call missing
middle the missing middle these middle class housing duplexes, town homes,
and the ADUs in single family neighborhoods.
Speaker 2: No, we can't do that.
Speaker 1: Hey, have you been over to Elizabeth, Not the city,
but the area of Charlotte, the Elizabeth area. You know
they got quadplexes all throughout that whole neighborhood, right. I
looked at a bunch of them when I first moved
to Charlotte. Too expensive for me at the time to
just rent like a one bedroom, and they're just you know,
it's like a rectangle building.
Speaker 2: You got four units.
Speaker 1: The downstairs got little patios and the upstairs got balconies.
There's one main door in and then there's a staircase
that goes up to the two units upstairs and one
on each side. It's four apartments and they fit in
with the character of that neighborhood, I would submit a
little bit of and more so, they fit in with
the the you know, the architectural esthetic of the neighborhood
better than the McMansions that got built there. Are you
seeing what's happening? Also in South Park now you got million,
multimillion dollar mansions that are being torn down because the
lots they sit on are large, and the developers then
can come in tear down the multimillion dollar mansion and
put up three story, two million dollar condos and they
can pack in like twenty of them. They call them
duets because you can't call it a duplex when you're
spending two million dollars on a on a town home,
you know that's connected to another town. You're sharing a wall. Look,
if I'm paying two million dollars, I do not want
to share a wall with anybody, you know.
Speaker 2: But people will.
Speaker 1: People will because they want to be in South Park,
which gosh, that's I rented over there when I moved
back to Charlotte to take this job, and we lived
in the South Park area, and holy smokes, it's ridiculous
over there now. The traffic, oh, I hate traffic. Now.
I would walk most places I could, but South Park
wasn't really designed for walkers, you know. So the bipartisan bills.
State lawmakers are also exploring allowing housing development by right.
In other words, you don't need to get permits in
any area that is currently zoned for commercial use. So
you have a commercially zoned area. If a developer comes
in there and they want to do residential builds, they
would be allowed to do that on a commercially zoned property.
This is like the whole mixed use development idea. It's
not a new idea. It used to just be called
main street. You had shops on the ground floor and
then you had apartments above. It was a mix right
until the planners got all up in there in the
seventies and they started saying, no, we're going to put
you over here. We're going to segregate you guys over there.
You're just residential. Now you're commercial over here. And then
everybody's going to drive everywhere, and then of course you
got a lot of traffic. Look at Independence Boulevard, like
that's the poster child for this kind of terrible planning ideology.
In recent years, missing middle policies have sparked lawsuits across
the country. Up in Raleigh, some residents worried about overcrowding,
increased traffic, and changes to the look and feel of
their neighborhoods. Okay, So here's another one of the things
that I feel like people need to be aware of.
Speaker 2: You do not have a right.
Speaker 1: To preserve the look and feel of other people's properties.
I'm not sure who needs to hear that, but I
feel like a lot of people do.
Speaker 2: So I said it.
Speaker 1: Okay, things change, everything changes, right, It's the one constant.
Everything changes. Cities change, right, neighborhoods change, houses change. People
paint them, they fix them, they renovate them, whatever. And
if it's not your property, then like you can't stop
people from wanting to do something with their property to
improve it in some way, just because you don't like
the look of it. It's one of the biggest things
I run into with the HOA that I'm in. Also,
it's like, I don't like the look of those colored rocks.
Not your property, it's not your house. They may like
the red lava rocks. I personally hate them. I hate
is Actually that's not even strong enough. Detest them. Okay,
I detest the red lava rocks. Would never put them
in my I rip them out at my previous house.
But if somebody else loves them and they want to
put them in their property. Then let them do it.
It's not for me to tell you what to do
with your own property it. Oh, but what about if
I put you know, pink flamingos in the front yard. Okay,
well that's the line. Okay, I draw the line of
the pink flamingos.
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Dot Com email from Jan who says, wearing the tank
top wife Beater shirt under a regular shirt. I admit it, Pete,
I am one of those people. I work outside in
The additional shirt under my T shirt provides extra protection
and I guess against thorns and insects. I wear them
the rest of the time because I am used to
wearing them for work. Right, But wouldn't the sleeve one
give you more protection then on your shoulders, your armpits.
I wouldn't give you more protection than the wife Beater.
Speaker 2: Right T shirt does? I said, I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the attempt to inform me, Jen, but I
cannot wrap my mind around it. All Right, So, the
state legislature has a series of bills looking to boost
housing supply Senebill four ninety seven. It includes allowing denser
housing formats so up to six plexes and town homes
in any area zoned for single family houses, so you
can build a six plex. It would also prohibit local
governments from discouraging development through unreasonable costs or delay, including zoning, development, sighting,
or design review standards. Cenebill four ninety nine would allow
housing development by right in any area currently zoned only
for commercial, office or retail use.
Speaker 2: I'm okay with that one.
Speaker 1: You got a commercial area, retail area, office area, you
want to put up housing in there, I'm fine with that.
I'm not saying I would like live at the mall,
but I'm fine with allowing for it. The bill would
also allow the conversion of a building or part of
a building from commercial to residential use.
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't that be allowed now zoning? Another bill.
Speaker 1: Filed by Gloris stein Brown, a Pitt County Democrat, called
the Housing Choice Act, would permit by right, multi family
residential development in municipalities with under one hundred thousand residents
multi family residential development. If you're in a city under
one hundred thousand by Gashville, by right, you would be
able to build multi family. It would also waive construction
related fees for low and moderate income housing, allowing ADUs
and offer first time home buyer education programs. Well, the
first step in that education program should be can you
actually afford this house?
Speaker 2: That should be the first lesson.
Speaker 1: There's a bill by Donnie Loftus, a Gaston County Republican,
along with a Wake County Democrat, Alison Dahl. It would
restrict local governments from requiring a minimum number or size
of off street parking spaces, and it would clarify the
limits of local stormwater requirements for redevelopment sites. I will
say the parking spaces thing. I because when we moved
into the apartment in Center City, we got one parking
spot and we have there's two of us. We have
two cars, so we were only allowed one assigned spot,
which Christy got and now so I just was always
on the lookout and it would sometimes it would take me,
like on a Friday night when I would come back
from Ashville, trying to find a parking spot on Friday
night was difficult because you know, people in the apartment
building they were having friends over before they went out
club in or whatever, and it would always be full
and there wasn't a lot of parking spaces for that.
For the number of apartments they go on to say
in this article at The News and Observer that the
number of households in the state is projected to increase
by five percent between now and twenty twenty nine. That
results in an estimated housing gap of basically three quarters
of a million units. So we're seven hundred and sixty
five thousand units short within four years. That includes it
breaks down to be like a sixty forty split between
for sale and rental units. So like we need to
add three hundred and twenty two thousand rental units and
four hundred forty two thousand four sale units in four years.
Speaker 2: Where are they going to go? Right?
Speaker 1: People need jobs in order to afford these places, So
you've got to locate them where the jobs are.
Speaker 2: And if all of the.
Speaker 1: Job are clustering her into the metro area because that's
where the workforce is that you're trying to pull from,
right then, I don't know, Like maybe I'm thinking this
through right now, they're Okay, let me preface there are
no bad ideas under the cone of creativity. Okay, I
am right now firmly ensconced in the cone of creativity,
So do not attack me for this idea. But how
about like company towns. Right, Like you bring in a
manufacture of some kind and they built like a Hershey, Pennsylvania, Right,
I do that, like Hershey the guy he built the
Hershey factory, right, and then as part of the factory,
he built this whole town around it for all the
workers to live in. And then you can set up
like a store. You could do a grocery store, and
you could charge too much money so people could never
afford all of the groceries. They go into debt, and
then they can never quit or move out. Okay, right,
don't do that last part. But that is how company
stores would would keep people there. But that like maybe
we see maybe there should be some sort of a
regulatory or tax break for that kind of a deal, right,
rather than just announcing, oh, we got this big, you know,
corporate investment. This manufacturer is going to locate here. Okay, Well,
they're going to locate here, and then they should have
a housing component as part of their project, and we
give them some breaks for doing that. And now you've
got people who would you know, theoretically work there and
live right nearby. I'm under the cone of creativity, Okay.
Eric Brawn, the founder of Raleigh Fulward and a retired
land use and litigation attorney, said there's no magic bullet solution. However,
he believes these reforms. Some of these reforms would lead
to more inventory. You may want to sit down for this.
That would make housing more affordable across the state. If
you build more of the thing, then it becomes more
available and the prices come down. It's like supply and
demand kind of thing for real. You can look it up.
Speaker 2: All right.
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