Not only that.. Quite possibly people who are homeless now would have a home.

You can get a permit to live in an RV under the following circumstances:

1) While you are in the process of building a home on your property, assuming all permits have been obtained and the utilities are in.

2) Either the person occupying the RV needs to require medical care by a person living in the home on the property, or vice versa. A letter from a doctor is required.

I’ve looked at the laws for most of the counties in California and all of them have have similar laws.

Without a permit, it’s possible to live “temporarily” in RV parks, although many people actually do so permanently.

Finally, I’m legally living in my RV under a loophole so tiny you have to dig WAY deep into state law to know it is there. My fifth wheel is in a mobile home space in a mobile home park … which makes it in most ways legally a mobile home, go figure. One difference: I do not need to get permits to remodel my RV, which I would have to do if it was really a mobile home.

Sorry, I know that’s confusing, but that’s the clearest I can make the explanation!

The places closest to California in which someone can (pretty much) freely live in an RV full-time are Humboldt and Elko Counties in Nevada. Even there the properties need to be 5+ acres and a permit is required.

I hope that was of interest.

There are other places in the US that are less regulated (Missouri seems to be often cited as one such) but California’s pretty strict in terms of building & zoning.

Probably a lot better.

Sorry, David, I have to respectfully disagree with you. People have reached the breaking point of overeager enforcers telling them what they can’t do that’s REASONABLE to build on their own property. No one here is talking about a meat rendering plant, gun range, etc. They are talking about adding a building or structure that meets the regulations. In Sonoma county, the building permit for a single family residence of 2000 square feet with a 2 car garage is $50,000. For just the permit.

If they applied the standards to existing buildings, 90% of them would be out of compliance.

This has nothing to do with protecting the health and safety of the occupants, neighbors or the living creatures around the property, they are for CONTROL, to stop ANY development and of course to MAKE MONEY FOR THE GOVERNMENT.

One thing I’m learning is that things get built a lot faster and just as well without permits (and I’d guess that 80% of everything in the country is built that way).

If you think buildings are bad, just try getting water.

If you hate permits and zoning picture what it would be like without them. On one side of your quiet neck of the woods someone opens an all night motorcycle tuning shop/gun range & minimart, and a mosque pops up on the other and you get to hear prayer 5 times a day.
I think that a lot of the regulations involve over-building but many are safety oriented. In a choice between maybe too much regulation and my upwind neighbor starting a home based meat rendering plant I vote for regulations.
If everyone thought of the neighbors and community first when it comes to safety and environment we wouldn’t need most of our laws but there are a lot of people that would build structures that would collapse and kill someone innocent like their own kids.

I live on half of an acre you would think I could make my own small place buy noooooo they won’t let me.

Now I have to buy my own property, I hate permits and zoning!

You could dig a pond on your property, design your tiny floating home, then you don’t need a permit, it is a boat, really.

I personally plan on buying some remote land, in Northern Cali/Southern Oregon, and giving it a go. Although, I will probably test the waters with a yurt first.