The question everyone asks first
Where can you put a tiny home? Let’s find out before you fall in love with a floor plan.
Enter your jurisdiction. You’ll get a plain-language read — what’s allowed, under which certification, and what to ask your municipality. If the answer is no, we say no.
Have a specific property? Check your address and a specialist confirms your lot, free.
Verified guides so far: Surrey · Vancouver · Victoria · Kelowna · Burnaby & Coquitlam · Toronto — more added as lookups tell us where to research next.
Sample result — Canada
Surrey, BC
A277 garden suite: permittable, lot criteria apply. Z240 THOW: RV rules — not a permanent dwelling here.
Best path — A277 modular
Sample result — United States
Example County, WA
Appendix Q status shown per jurisdiction, with state modular program notes. Adoption varies — some as late as 2027.
Every claim destination-checked
Three legal paths — pick by destination, not by looks
Path 1
Permanent dwelling
Modular on a foundation — CSA A277 in Canada, IRC modular with state insignia in the US. Real property, mortgage-eligible, the smoothest permit path for laneway and garden suites.
Path 2
Movable, on a pad
Tiny home on wheels — CSA Z240 in Canada, RVIA/NOAH in the US. Lives on RV pads, resorts, and land where movable dwellings are allowed. Flexible, but placement rules are local.
Path 3
Recreational lot
Park model — CSA Z241 in Canada, ANSI A119.5 in the US. Built for resort lots and campgrounds. Three-season by definition; we'll steer you to Path 1 if you need year-round.
The pad finder
No land yet? Get the pad-finder directory.
CSA and ANSI-friendly RV parks, friendly-bylaw municipalities in Canada, and US jurisdictions worth a look — updated as our zoning logs grow.
Not sure what your answer means? Bring it to the call — zoning is half of what we talk about.
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