Mount Shasta planning panel clears tiny‑home ordinance, bars ownership language and limits moves to once a year

The Mount Shasta Planning Commission voted July 15 to forward a municipal code amendment on tiny homes on wheels to city council, leaving the draft ordinance “silent” on individual ownership and adding a provision that movement on or off a site be limited to no more than once every 12 months.

The change, adopted as part of Resolution PC 2025-02, also includes objective design standards and a staff-recommended provision listed as Mount Shasta Municipal Code section 18.180.040(e) that restricts movement “to no more than annually or as required for registration, certification or related compliance at the discretion of the planning director.” The commission also found the action categorically exempt from CEQA under the standard set out in CEQA Guidelines section 15061(b)(3).

Staff said the goal of the ordinance is to allow a new housing typology while retaining local design control. Jeff, city planning staff, told the commission he reached out to other California jurisdictions and the Tiny Home Industry Association while drafting the ordinance and recommended keeping ownership unspecified so market models—individual ownership, developer ownership, co‑ops or community land trusts—remain available.

"Homeownership equity is a large part of the reason" to allow tiny homes on wheels, Jeff said, adding his research showed most tiny homes move only two to three times over their lifetime and that over‑regulating village design has kept some other…