The tiny home saga continues as local elected officials gathered at the UBCM conference last month in Victoria. On Sept. 23, nearly 150 delegates filed into a conference room at 7:30 a.m. to hear findings from a March technical panel on the issue.

The findings were presented by Tobi Elliott, Islands Trust Trustee for Gabriola, Mudge, and DeCourcy Islands, alongside four other elected officials from Nanaimo, the Gulf Islands, and the Okanagan.

The main breakthrough finding from the technical panel, Elliott says, was learning that manufacturers in attendance were building very close to the manufactured home standard, and they would not need to make too many significant changes to their building process to bring tiny homes in line with manufactured homes.

Many tiny homes have previously be

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