Please Sign My Petition : Call To Action No Later Than June 16, 2025
I have started a Change.Org petition to raise awareness of the hijacking of an ICC Tiny House standard with the Small Residential Unit. We need to act fast and let ICC know that we do not approve of Tiny Houses becoming a secondary focus in the standard, with the takeover of the Small Residential Unit. Below is an excerpt from my petition. If the Small Residential Unit is not removed from the standard, I am going to appeal the decision. Please join me.
The International Code Council ( ICC) is developing a tiny house standard by the OSMTH 1215 Committeeand ICC is co-branding the standard with the Tiny Home Industry Association ( THIA).
The current title of the standard is called ICC/THIA 1215 – 202x Design, Construction and Regulation of Tiny Houses for Permanent Occupancy.
The original intent was to add chassis provisions to progress tiny houses on wheels as a viable solution for housing and further the progress of Appendix Q Tiny Houses.
The standard has been completely hijacked by the Small Residential Unit ( SRU ) and Tiny Houses has now become an incidental focus.
Definition Of The SRU In The Standard
SMALL RESIDENTIAL UNIT (SRU). A dwelling that is 1200 square feet (111 m2) or less excluding lofts and is constructed as a permanent residential structure with or without a permanent chassis
lofts and is constructed as a permanent residential structure with or without a permanent chassis.
There has been a great debate in the OSMTH 1215 committee regarding the Small Residential Unit takeover of the standard which is the agenda of ICC.
They want to position the Small Residential Unit, a made up term that is not used by anyone and is not enforceable over Tiny Houses, a codified term in the IRC, making Tiny Houses a subcategory under the Small Residential Unit.
On May 16, 2025, the ANSI Standards Action Newsletter published a revised PINS notification that the International Code Council ( ICC) submitted to add the the Small Residential Unit ( SRU) to the title and the scope of the Tiny House standard.
The proposed new title is ICC/THIA 1215-202x, Design, Construction, Inspection and Regulation of Small Residential Units and Tiny Houses for Permanent Occupancy.
The new revised PINS allows the tiny house industry and anyone materially affected by the standard to comment and submit a PINS complaint regarding the standard, with the opportunity to appeal.
Listen To The Video Of The Hearing At The CAH # 1
The Small Residential Unit was vigorously opposed at the CAH hearing, and ICC did not listen. They had a chance to get the standard back into compliance with the approved title, scope, and intent of the standard, and the primary purpose to add chassis provisions to tiny houses, adopted into the IRC, but instead tiny houses have been hijacked by the Small Residential Unit.
It is clearly an agenda of ICC and they have an overreach in their involvement as a Standard Developer that is dominating the standard in violation of ANSI Essential Requirements that prohibit dominance.
The standards development process shall not be dominated by any single interest category, individual or organization. Dominance means a position or exercise of dominant authority, leadership, or influence by reason of superior leverage, strength, or representation to the exclusion of fair and equitable consideration of other viewpoints.
Go To Change.Org Petition- Oppose ICC Standard Hijacking Tiny Houses With Small Residential Units
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