Tiny home rules in Clay County, MO — 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.
In unincorporated Clay County, a foundation-built tiny home is a dwelling that must meet the adopted International Residential Code and zoning. A tiny home on wheels is treated as an RV or manufactured home and is restricted by Title XV zoning.
Clay County classifies a tiny home by how it is built. A tiny house on a permanent foundation is a single-family dwelling subject to the adopted International Residential Code, including IRC Appendix Q standards for houses 400 square feet or less, and must meet its zoning district and utility, water, and wastewater requirements. A tiny home on wheels is titled and treated as a recreational vehicle or manufactured home, and county zoning under Title XV limits where it can be placed or occupied full-time. An accessory tiny home follows the county's accessory-dwelling and zoning rules.
Occupying a foundation tiny home without a certificate of occupancy, or parking a tiny home on wheels as a permanent dwelling where zoning bars it, brings code-enforcement action.
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