Tiny home rules in Richland County, SC — 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.
Richland County has no tiny-home-specific ordinance. A tiny house on a permanent foundation is treated as a single-family dwelling that must meet the building code and district lot/setback standards. A tiny house on wheels is regulated like a manufactured/recreational unit and is not a general residential right; manufactured homes are
The Land Development Code does not define or separately permit 'tiny homes.' A site-built tiny house on a foundation is simply a single-family dwelling and must satisfy the district's minimum lot size, setbacks and the building code. A factory-built unit is regulated as a manufactured home: Sec. 26-151 allows manufactured homes on individual lots only in the Rural, Rural Residential, RS-E and Manufactured Home Park districts, must meet the federal HUD (1976) standards, and requires removal of the tongue and axles plus permanent skirting. A manufactured home cannot serve as an accessory dwelling. Cities set their own tiny-home policies.
Placing a dwelling in a district where it is not permitted, or without meeting manufactured-home standards, is a zoning violation subject to removal orders and citations.
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