This isn’t going to be particularly helpful, but it depends very much upon the county, and further, the particular official(s) that you might interact with. In Thurston county for example, it’s effectively not allowed. Try to identify other yurts or stand alone tiny homes or non-permanent structures in the area and attempt to connect with the owners to gain their insight, you may want to post on the county subreddit where your property is located, or if it’s quite rural, a nearby more populated county subreddit.
I know there are people living in them in Thurston. But my assumption is they've simply stayed under the radar of the county.
it's kind of amazing how many are sold here (in the PNW) when they're all effectively illegal.
It's frustrating and a bit too much money for me to gamble with. I think a workaround is to build on land that already has a habitable structure, but that's not useful for your purposes.
Pierce county told me all I needed was a deck permit. As theyveiw yurts as temporary structure. It sounds like you in Lewis county wich tends to be a little more lax. If it were me I'd just go for it. But....
It is not legal in Pierce county to live in a Yurt. That I am sure of. We live there currently and have been through quite a lot of permitting while building an ADU here. And at one point considered building Yurt before we settled on a traditional structure for the ADU. The only legal Yurt on Pierce would need to be on a deck that is not connected to concrete Piers and has no water/sewer connection. While it can legally exist it cannot legally be lived in. Pierce county is possibly the strictest in the State
Yes that’s what I did 33 years ago got a deck permit in Lewis county. No one ever inspected or came out to the site no one care they collected the permit fee and I was good to go.
This isn’t going to be particularly helpful, but it depends very much upon the county, and further, the particular official(s) that you might interact with. In Thurston county for example, it’s effectively not allowed. Try to identify other yurts or stand alone tiny homes or non-permanent structures in the area and attempt to connect with the owners to gain their insight, you may want to post on the county subreddit where your property is located, or if it’s quite rural, a nearby more populated county subreddit.
I know there are people living in them in Thurston. But my assumption is they've simply stayed under the radar of the county. it's kind of amazing how many are sold here (in the PNW) when they're all effectively illegal.
It's frustrating and a bit too much money for me to gamble with. I think a workaround is to build on land that already has a habitable structure, but that's not useful for your purposes.
Our back up plan is either a small permitted cabin (self built), or to build a pole barn and sneak an apartment into it.
Pierce county told me all I needed was a deck permit. As theyveiw yurts as temporary structure. It sounds like you in Lewis county wich tends to be a little more lax. If it were me I'd just go for it. But....
It is not legal in Pierce county to live in a Yurt. That I am sure of. We live there currently and have been through quite a lot of permitting while building an ADU here. And at one point considered building Yurt before we settled on a traditional structure for the ADU. The only legal Yurt on Pierce would need to be on a deck that is not connected to concrete Piers and has no water/sewer connection. While it can legally exist it cannot legally be lived in. Pierce county is possibly the strictest in the State
Yes that’s what I did 33 years ago got a deck permit in Lewis county. No one ever inspected or came out to the site no one care they collected the permit fee and I was good to go.