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By Mike Heddle
Posted Monday, Feb 14, 2022 12:32 pm

It's easier than ever to have a tiny home in Ontario, but that's not saying much

Do you want the good, the bad, or the ugly? Because there is a little bit of all three in the current Ontario regulations for tiny houses.

What’s legal in Ontario (the good):

You can build a tiny house as a primary or secondary dwelling on land in Ontario as long as:

you have a building permit,
own the land,
and the house conforms to the Ontario Building Code.

In order to get a building permit from your municipality, your house plan also has to comply with municipal by-laws. Generally, this means you need to respect setbacks from property lines, etc. But for most Ontario municipalities, this also means your house cannot be on wheels. With some exceptions, most Ontario municipalities...[READ MORE]

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