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Planner: manufactured homes and tiny houses treated like site-built units if permanently sited
Summary
Gunther said state rules prevent cities from imposing design standards on manufactured homes that do not apply to site-built houses; tiny homes on permanent foundations must meet regular building codes, ADUs must meet small home specialty code.
Residents asked whether CC&Rs that block mobile or manufactured homes would still be enforceable. Gunther distinguished older "mobile homes" from modern "manufactured homes" and said the state now treats manufactured homes as equivalent for building-code purposes. "We can't treat a manufactured home any differently than we treat a site-built," she said.
She added that tiny homes on permanent foundations become site-built for code purposes and ADUs must meet the small-home specialty building code. She cautioned that older mobile homes without HUD labels have largely been removed from town and that the city will not allow substandard trailers on private lots as permanent dwellings.
