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Brooklyn Center Good Morning Chris: we go back and forth on this issue once or twice a year with various residents. Our R1 Code (noted below) allows the “renting” of sleeping rooms as a permitted, accessory use – and we sometimes have arguments with residents what constitutes a “sleeping room” – and I usually end it by responding: “One bedroom equals a sleeping room. The entire basement or open upstairs does not correlate into a sleeping room.” Of course-some have wanted to install a small kitchen and bathroom in the “sleeping room” for their approved family member or “resident” - and we have rejected this for many reasons. Section 35-310. R1 ONE FAMILY RESIDENCE DISTRICT. 1. Permitted Uses a. One family dwellings. b. Accessory uses incidental to the foregoing principal uses or to the following special uses when located on the same property with the use to which it is accessory, but not including any business or industrial accessory uses. Such accessory uses to include but not be restricted to the following: 9) The renting of not more than two sleeping rooms in the principal building by a resident family, provided adequate offstreet parking is provided. We do not allow two-family residences in the R1 Zone, but do in our R2-Two Family or higher. We do have some grandfathered two-families in our R1 Zones-but slowly they are going away due to most owners do not want to deal with our very aggressive rental registration program. We have given in to some residents demands that insist on providing a “downstairs kitchen and bathroom” for the convenience of “other family members” – which we usually let go, once they convince us they are not going to use this lower living area as rental space or income generator. I used to get a notice from our city assessors when they discovered these “added units” during inspections - and we’ve had to make determinations if the property is being used by related family members –or as rental property. It’s so much fun trying to make that call. We absolutely forbid residential units in garages or similar accessory structures; or allowing a separate “little house” built on the same lot. Big Lake The City does not allow a separate unit. If there is only one house entrance or an entrance through the garage to another space, and there aren't full kitchen facilities, then we allow it. But a full unit wouldn't be allowed in our single-family district. Shoreview See Section 207.010, and the application form, which includes the code requirements. We do not receive many requests for these. 207.010 Accessory Apartments. Accessory apartments must comply with the following standards: