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Board clarifies who can apply and when emergency housing timeframes begin
Summary
The board clarified eligibility language—applicant or owner must show the damaged structure was a primary residence—and confirmed the two-year permit window runs from the date of the declared disaster, with a possible one-year administrative extension.
Board members debated whether owners, tenants or applicants should be eligible to pull temporary-permit applications for emergency housing. Staff clarified permitting mechanics and suggested language that would allow either an owner or an occupant to apply, provided proof the structure was used as a primary residence prior to storm damage.
"Applicant or owner must provide proof that a structure occupied as a primary residence [was] damaged or made inaccessible by the declared disaster," staff read when summarizing the revised eligibility language. Staff also confirmed the duration: emergency housing is permitted for up to two years from the date of the declared disaster and the zoning administrator may extend that period for up to one additional year; the two-year clock begins on the declared-disaster date, not the permit-issuance date.
