RV / Tiny Home Parks in Texas

[Carlo C.]

Can an unrestricted AG zoned be used for RV /tiny home park in Houston, Austin and Dallas? Any pockets of smaller cities are more friendly to have that kind of setup?

[Mason Moreland]

Plenty of pockets friendly to those sort of developments in Texas. To put your question in context of breadth however, it is sort of like asking "can you build a house in California?" Yes, but you need to narrow it down a lot to have a coherent answer.

You will have to look at (I'd recommend in this order) the city codes (if it's inside a city, many cities above 50-100k population aren't friendly to development of these), the county codes (most counties are friendly to these, but you will probably have significant issues in major counties like Bexar, Travis, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant, Harris, etc), then you will have to comply with the state-level (TCEQ and others) on the water supply and waste water treatment systems.

To put it in perspective again, in say Dallas or Austin, you will likely have prohibitions or very significant hurdles on developing RV or tiny home properties even on unincorporated, "unrestricted," AG-zoned properties at both the city/municipal level and county level. Meanwhile, in unincorporated areas of Smith County, there isn't even such a thing as a building permit. All you have is either deed restrictions or state-level regs on septic/water supply. Many areas are still like that in TX (no permitting office, no building permits or zoning), while others are highly restrictive like (Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Etc).