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It Takes A Village: Designating "Tiny House" Villages As Transitional Housing Campgrounds, Ciara Turner
It Takes A Village: Designating "Tiny House" Villages As Transitional Housing Campgrounds, Ciara Turner
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
A relatively new proposal to reduce homelessness in the United States involves extraordinarily small dwellings. While the “tiny house” movement is intuitively appealing and has found sporadic success, strict housing codes, building codes, and zoning laws often destroy the movement before it can get off the ground. One possibility for getting around these zoning and building code challenges, without drastic overhauls to health and safety codes, is to create a new state-level zoning classification of “transitional campgrounds.” A new zoning classification would alleviate the issue because campgrounds are consistently subject to less strict building codes, which could permit tiny houses …
Municipal Corporations - Validity Of Setback Ordinances In Improved Districts
Municipal Corporations - Validity Of Setback Ordinances In Improved Districts
Michigan Law Review
Mulleady sought but was refused permission to inclose with glass a porch on a lot located in the city of Trenton. The municipality was authorized to make building regulations for the purpose of lessening congestion in streets, securing safety from fire, panic, or other danger, promoting health, morals, or general welfare, providing adequate light and air, or avoiding concentration of population. Section 12 of the municipal ordinance provided that no building should be erected, reconstructed, or altered so as to project in any wise beyond the average setback lines observed by the buildings on the same side of the street …
Landlord And Tenant-Covenants-Effect Of A Municipal Ordinance
Landlord And Tenant-Covenants-Effect Of A Municipal Ordinance
Michigan Law Review
L. let a building to T. with the provision in the lease that if the premises should be rendered unfit for occupancy by reason of fire or other casualty, L. would rebuild the same at his own expense. Subsequently the city council passed a building code prohibiting the rebuilding of a structure destroyed more than sixty per cent by fire. The building in this case was almost entirely destroyed by fire and L. was refused a permit to rebuild. Previous to the refusal of the commissioner to grant a permit, T. had preferred L. the monthly rent which L. had …
Covenants--Mistake Of Law--Warranty Against
Covenants--Mistake Of Law--Warranty Against
Michigan Law Review
The Municipal Metallic Bed Mfg. Co. leased a building from Dobbs in reliance on his representation that it was not illegal to manufacture in said building, and the lease contained a warranty to that effect, and a promise to indemnify the Bed Co. for any loss sustained in case it should prove illegal to use the building for the purpose intended. It later proved that due to the New York building code the building could not be used for manufacturing, and the Bed. Co. sued for the loss it sustained as a result. Held, plaintiff could recover on the …