When I lived in Alameda, I was trying to develop a tiny home commnunity, working with some manufacturers of high quality tiny homes... I hit roadblocks when I

When I lived in Alameda, I was trying to develop a tiny home commnunity, working with some manufacturers of high quality tiny homes... I hit roadblocks when I spoke to the city of alameda regarding their zoning laws, which required a certain square footage for any given home. IIRC it was >2,000SF per lot for a single home. Further, if one was to build a shared infrastructure system (power, sewer, water, internet) upon which multiple building could be erected - It needed to have a single uniform entrance. So you couldnt build multiple building with their own discreet entrance as that would count as "multi building" and violates the zoning law. There were some on the city council at the time (2013) that were trying to get this changed but it never happened - the Alameda City Council is rather corrupt for various reasons... But the zoning law precluded anyone from doing anything progressive.