Las Vegas, NV Accessory Structures: Tiny Homes (2026)

070 defines a Residential Tiny House as a single-family dwelling unit for the exclusive use of a single family maintaining a household, with a gross floor area of 400 square feet or less, excluding loft areas. A tiny house that doesn't qualify as a manufactured or mobile home or a recreational park trailer can be approved as a Residential, Single Family Detached use if it meets that use's other requirements, and the code is explicit that nothing stops a Residential Tiny House from instead being built as a Residential, Accessory Dwelling Unit.

Recreational park trailers are excluded outright. The Conditional Use Regulations impose six hard requirements: the structure cannot be attached to any other dwelling, must be surrounded by open space or yards, cannot have more than one full kitchen, must have interior access between all rooms used for human habitation, cannot be mounted on wheels, and must be placed on a foundation or secured to the site with utility connections as required by the Building and Safety Division. If elevated above grade, the base must be masked architecturally or with landscaping, berming, or planters.

Critically, in the R-3, R-4, C-1, C-2, T4-N, T4-M and T5-N zoning districts, a Residential Tiny House may only be constructed as part of a larger multi-family residential or mixed-use development, not as a standalone unit on its own lot. 040(B), and it carries an on-site parking requirement of two spaces per site. This provision was set by Ord. 6874 Section 7, effective 07/17/24. A related use, Residential Tiny House Park, separately covers land where two or more tiny houses or tiny house spaces are rented out.