Everett, WA Accessory Structures: Tiny Homes (2026)
Tiny home rules in Everett, WA, covering tiny houses on wheels (THOWs), park model RVs, and tiny home on foundation builds, determine where they are legal and how they get permitted.
Key Facts
- New tiny home communities
- Prohibited citywide
- Primary-residence use
- Only pre-2008 MH communities
- Sanitation requirement
- Internal toilet and shower
- Governing section
- EMC 19.13.270
Summary
Everett bans new manufactured home, mobile home, RV park, and tiny home communities citywide. A tiny house is allowed as a primary residence only inside a manufactured/mobile home community that existed before June 12, 2008, and only if it meets fire and safety standards.
A. New parks are prohibited. Establishment of new manufactured home, mobile home, RV park, or tiny home communities is prohibited. ... 3. Recreational Vehicles or Tiny Houses. a. A recreational vehicle or tiny house may be used as a primary residence in a manufactured/mobile home community which was legally in existence before June 12, 2008, as set forth in RCW 35.21.684 ... c. A recreational vehicle or tiny house may not be used as a primary residence within the city except as otherwise allowed in subsections (B)(3)(a) and (B)(3)(b) of this section.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 4194-26, passed July 29, 2026).
Full Breakdown
Everett Municipal Code § 19.13.270 prohibits establishing any new manufactured home, mobile home, RV, or tiny home community anywhere in the city. Existing manufactured/mobile home communities legally in place before June 12, 2008 may host a recreational vehicle or tiny house as a primary residence, but only if it meets city building-official and fire-marshal safety requirements and contains at least one internal toilet and shower, or the community itself provides those facilities. Outside those legacy communities, a tiny house may be used only as a temporary residence where Chapter 19.05 EMC allows it: it is not a general backyard accessory-dwelling option in this Snohomish County city.
Violations & Fines
Placing or occupying a tiny house or RV as a primary residence outside a qualifying pre-2008 manufactured/mobile home community, or without required toilet and shower facilities, violates EMC 19.13.270 and can trigger removal.
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