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Board declines to override planning commission on Tropical Treehouse duplex; motion to allow 50% general rentals dies
Summary
The planning commission recommended denial of an amendment to a special exception for a duplex (allowing broader farm-worker residency); the board discussed a compromise requiring 50% occupancy by H-2A workers but a motion died for lack of a second, leaving the planning commission denial intact.
The board considered an applicant's request to remove a condition limiting farm-worker residency to a specific property and to allow farmworkers countywide to occupy one half of a duplex that was constructed for H-2A use. Staff summarized the planning commission's prior action: a recommendation of denial (7-0, one abstention) following public hearings and adjacent-property notices. An adjacent landowner and the applicant described current operations and said they had encountered no local opposition.
Several supervisors expressed sympathy for the applicant's investment but raised precedent and enforcement concerns, especially monitoring occupancy and the planning commission's prior denial. One supervisor moved to permit the owner to rent up to 50% of the duplex to the general public while maintaining H-2A occupancy of the other half; the motion failed for lack of a second, and the planning commission recommendation of denial therefore stood.
