Buncombe County does not ban keeping a personal RV, travel trailer, camper, or boat at your home in the unincorporated county. The Zoning Ordinance treats a road-ready, disconnected travel trailer as a parked vehicle. Living in it is capped, and inoperable units can be abated as junked.
Buncombe County zones the unincorporated county under NC Gen. Stat. Chapter 160D through its Zoning Ordinance (Chapter 78). There is no countywide ban on storing a resident's RV, camper, or boat at home. Sec. 78-664 says a travel trailer that is disconnected from utilities, tagged and road-ready, and not used as a dwelling on site 'will be considered a parked vehicle for the purposes of this ordinance.' Using an RV as a temporary single-family dwelling is limited to 180 days per year, only in districts permitting travel trailers, and it may never be permanently affixed. An inoperable RV or boat can be abated as a junked vehicle under Chapter 26 and G.S. 153A-132. Inside Asheville, city yard-storage rules apply.
Using an RV as a permanent dwelling, beyond 180 days, or affixed to the ground violates the Zoning Ordinance; an inoperable unit is abated as junked. County ordinance violations are a Class 3 misdemeanor under NC Gen. Stat. 14-4.
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