Tiny home rules in Overland Park, KS — 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.
Overland Park sets a hard minimum of 864 square feet of livable floor area for any single-family dwelling, and the Planning Commission assigns each subdivision a minimum size class as high as 2,600 square feet. The IRC tiny house appendix is not adopted.
OPMC 18.460.360 requires every single-family dwelling on unclassified land to contain at least 864 square feet of floor area. OPMC 18.460.350 directs the Planning Commission to assign each subdivision a minimum total livable floor area classification at plat approval, from Classification 10 at 864 square feet up to Classification 1 at 2,600 square feet, measured as gross floor area minus garages and basements. OPMC 16.310 adopts the 2024 International Residential Code but adopts only Appendices BA, BF, and BG. Appendix AQ, the tiny house appendix, is left out. Accessory dwelling units are absent from the OPMC 18.390.030 accessory use list, and sheds are capped at 200 square feet.
Building without a permit or below the assigned minimum dwelling size blocks the certificate of occupancy; zoning and property maintenance violations are public offenses penalized under OPMC 1.12.010.
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