Littleton, CO Accessory Structures: Tiny Homes (2026)

1 of the Unified Land Use Code defines a Tiny Home Community as single-family dwelling units no greater than 750 square feet each, arranged in a community under a common plan of development. Units may sit on a permanent foundation or be attached to a chassis, but the code is explicit that a tiny home is not a manufactured home as defined by HUD and not a recreational vehicle as defined by NFPA and ANSI standards, keeping it distinct from the separate Manufactured Home Park use category cross-referenced at Section 4-4-11.

1, lists Tiny Home Community as a distinct specific use and marks it conditional with standards rather than allowed by right. Table Note 2 attached to that matrix sets the controlling limit: a tiny home community may occupy up to 10 percent of a development, and the development must first secure Master Development Plan approval, the city's discretionary process for larger, multi-phase projects. Because the use sits at the conditional tier, an applicant needs conditional use review on top of the Master Development Plan before building a tiny home community, and the 10-percent cap applies to the whole underlying development, not just the tiny home portion.

A project that ignores either the acreage cap or the Master Development Plan step is not a permitted tiny home community under Littleton's code, regardless of unit size.