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ATTACHMENT "A" 4. A lot may contain multiple habitable structures and qualify as a single family residential lot if it meets the following criteria: (A) In addition to the primary dwelling unit, the lot may be occupied by additional habitable structures or dwelling units (e.g. garage apartments, pool houses, guest cottages, etc.) with useable floor space less than fifty percent (50 %) of the floor space of the primary dwelling unit; (B) The additional habitable structures are not offered for public use or rental; and, (C) All such additional habitable structures are precluded from sale or transfer separate from the primary dwelling unit. 5. Existing small lots or tracts that do not meet the minimum lot size requirements of this section and will serve one single family dwelling may be approved for an OSSF in accordance with the following requirements: (A) Any lot, regardless of the date of platting or subdivision, must be of adequate size to accommodate the proposed system, including an effluent dispersal area that complies with effluent loading requirements of 30 TAC §285.91, Table I, and the system must be designed and operated in accordance with the remaining requirements of 30 TAC §285. (B) For lots or tracts platted or subdivided before March 14, 1977, an OSSF may be permitted on a lot of any size. (C) For lots or tracts platted or subdivided on or after March 14, 1977, but before June 14, 1984, an OSSF may be permitted on a lot of at least twenty thousand (20,000) square feet in size; (D) For lots or tracts platted or subdivided on or after June 15, 1984, but before August 29, 1997; (1) If the lot has a soil depth of less than four (4) feet to bedrock or to groundwater or if the percolation rate exceeds forty five (45) minutes per one (1) inch, the minimum lot size shall be thirty thousand (30,000) square feet; or, (2) If the lot has both a soil depth of less than four (4) feet to bedrock or to groundwater and a percolation rate exceeding forty five (45) minutes per one (1) inch, the minimum lot size shall be forty thousand (40,000) square feet. (E) For lots or tracts platted or subdivided on or after June 15, 1984, but before August 29, 1997, an OSSF may be permitted on a lot with a minimum size in compliance with 30 TAC §285.4 or §285.40, as applicable, which meets the requirements of 30 TAC §285.31 and the Hays County Regulations that were in effect at the time.