Tiny house zoning tip
Tiny Talks are the series of all things tiny living related. Brought to you by John Kernohan, founder of the United Tiny House Association. This video will give you a useful tip on tiny house zoning! For more information you visit us at www.unitedtinyhouse.com
Okay bro, thx!!! Gotcha.😅
Haha! Great video John! 😀
Just read your county, city or Township code. Read it!
that’s great advice to rely on the written documents and not the verbal over the phone answers. Nevertheless it is the humans that enforce the codes – so I like to at least understand what their perspective is also.
Hi John! Thanks for the video. I am building a treehouse in my backyard for my daughter before I begin I want to make sure it’s kosher. I called the courthouse and they said no permit needed but I don’t feel comfortable. I’m thinking of hiring an attorney just to make sure that I won’t have to take it down later. Do you think that this is overkill? The treehouse is probably going to cost me around 5000 or more.
I heard a lot of Florida Counties are working on rezoning many residential lots down to as low as 400sqf to allow for Tiny homes. These are not tiny home communities with HOAs, these are private, individual residential lots! This is great if it happens, but what I would also like to see is them relax the whole owner-builder process to let us do more of the planning and engineering work as Florida engineering services are so expensive and they are rarely interested in such small projects. Sci-fi talk, but right now AIs are able to fully design small homes with all the needed wind, structure and energy ratings (and that is only going to get better) but that’s not a signed and stamped plan and are counting building departments going to be accepting of that? The Federal government wants to see more people in home ownership, but that is not even realistic if everybody needs to be a 2500 sqf house in the city or near the coast. One Idea I’ve been floating around is rather than more blank check writing, subsidize services that enable those who are willing to build to get access to the tools they need to do it. I know it sounds scary, but armed with signed and approved plans, guidance, instructions and support I feel most able bodied, slightly mechanically inclined people could build a simple 400 sqf house.
Simply put, do your own homework. Humans tend to make a lot of mistakes. Read the parchment yourself.
Thanks 👍
Love it!