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Officials flag modular units, shared hookups and ADU strategies to lower housing costs
Summary
Commissioners and staff discussed ADUs, tiny homes on wheels, factory-built/modular units (local startup Boxkill), and shared utility hookup models as potential ways to increase affordable housing supply and reduce infrastructure costs.
Councilors and commissioners explored options to expand housing types and reduce development costs, including relaxed ADU lot-size thresholds, shared infrastructure models (single-meter hookups or shared SDC arrangements), tiny homes on wheels with higher construction standards, and factory-built/modular units. One participant noted a local company, Boxkill, that is developing modular units designed to be dropped on a site and connected to standard services.
Speakers emphasized the need to ensure minimum construction and habitability standards for units that may be moved or factory-built, and to avoid creating clusters of short‑term or poorly constructed units. Staff said some ADU benefits already exist (e.g., allowing ADUs off a single meter in certain cases) and that code audits and area planning work could identify where shared‑infrastructure models make sense.
