County says no camping on your own land !!

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I knew about these guys, but a recent news item reminded me of 'em:

Tumbleweed Tiny House Company - Welcome to our website !

I don't think many people could find fault with the Fit/Finish detail. Niche market at the moment, but I expect a township's tax department would have a problem with them catching on.

I can see where many young people would be attracted to these, given the economic conditions most face. I read about a guy who lived in an Econoline on the Duke campus not long ago - he got away with it, but the university quickly passed a new by-law to cover that strategy.

Rgds, D.
 
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Also in Canada, on our property I can park as many campers as I like and camp in them I suppose, only problem is the sewage needs to go in an approved system, not dumped on top of the ground.

Some cities here have anti-camper rules because people would end up with one in the driveway, one on the street, one in the back yard all filled with people (family?) and would take up a whole street of parking, and have exposed sewage trying to run it to the street drain, huge amount of garbage left out for collection etc.

Most areas are pretty lenient about it though, my inlaws are in a subdivision and have their camper setup in their driveway from May to November every year like half the other people.

There is one house that has 10 cars parked at it and clogs the street on the blind turn there. Once the loaded school bus was forced into the ditch on that turn meeting another car where they had their cars right on the road. Shortly after that the house owner posted a notice at the community mailbox demanding to know who threw the brick through the back window of their car. Someone wrote on the notice "Good for them, stop leaving your #$^@^ car in the middle of the road." lol
 
   / County says no camping on your own land !! #226  
I live in a conservative part of a very liberal state, please enjoy Oregon and keep your people control for yourselves.
yeeep me too
 
   / County says no camping on your own land !! #227  
Some interesting micro-cabins....

Amazing tiny homes | Tiny homes that are works of art - Yahoo Finance Canada

I like where the one in pic 15 was sited.

Rgds, D.

I've looked at those tiny houses, I don't think I could actually enjoy live in one though. It seems a bit extreme.

You would have to give up having a washer/dryer; that's a non-starter for many. Pets of any size would be a challenge. If I bought a book, I'd have to get rid of an older book just to have room for the new one, by the looks of those spaces.

I think I could be happy in 650-800 sq. ft., but not much less.
 
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People use them mostly as glorified park model campers...
 
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Many of our generation wouldn't want to live in a tiny house by choice.

20 somethings today - might be a different story, for a few reasons. I've noticed that few young people today collect books the way us oldsters do, but that is only one source of clutter. Add in limited job prospects, sky-high education debt.... unless you live on Maui and like sleeping on the beach, these tiny dwellings may start to look pretty good.

Things tend to move in cycles.... in previous generations people got by with much less space than what is considered (N. American) normal today.

I posted these links partly to illustrate that there are many tiny dwellings on the market that most people would find visually acceptable (re. on a neighbour's property). Acceptable to the local Tax Department..... that's likely a different story.

Rgds, D.
 
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I think it's a terrible infringement on Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness to not allow someone to camp on land they own.

This is an interesting statement. The reference to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness" comes from our Declaration of Independence, and not the Constitution, and as such has no standing in law. From a legal standpoint the Declaration of Independence is merely an embarrassing historical document
 

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