North Carolina County and Code Starting Points

Haywood County Manufactured Home Starting Points

In Haywood County there is no county zoning ordinance. The county's own land-usage chapters run from 150 to 161 - twelve of them - and none is zoning, so on land outside a town there is no district to check, no use table to pass and no hearing to win before a manufactured home is allowed. That is the good news and it is only half the answer. What Haywood regulates instead is the ground the home sits on: a Slope Ordinance that applies everywhere outside the towns, a watershed ordinance, a flood ordinance, an erosion ordinance and a ridge ordinance. On a mountain lot those cost more and take longer than a zoning hearing would. Four towns - Waynesville, Canton, Clyde and Maggie Valley - run their own planning and zoning boards, and the county's building inspectors do not cover Waynesville's town limits or its extraterritorial jurisdiction at all. And one number surprises people: two manufactured homes on one tract, with rent paid to the landowner, is a manufactured home park in this county and needs a park permit.

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Common Questions

Mobile homes in Haywood County, answered from the county's own sources.

Can I put a mobile home on my land in Haywood County?

Is there anything in Haywood County that could stop a mobile home on this land?

The slope is the gate, and it is a real one. Chapter 158, the Slope Ordinance, applies to property throughout the county located outside the corporate limits and planning and zoning jurisdictions of all municipalities. In a county where the buildable land is on a hillside, this is the chapter that decides what a pad costs and whether it can be cut at all. It is administered by an Ordinance Administrator with an Engineering Review Board behind them. Two homes and rent makes it a park. Chapter 157 defines a manufactured home park as a tract of land upon which two or more manufactured homes are located and which are occupied as residences and for which payment to the landowner is being required. Two. Not five, not ten. A park needs a construction permit and an operating permit from the Ordinance Administrator, and operating one without them is unlawful under the chapter. Source: Haywood County Ordinances and Regulations (the county's published chapter list), reviewed 2026-09-13.

What happens if the land is in a flood zone in Haywood County?

There is no zoning to pass. Most counties in this library answer the question with a use table. Haywood has no table, because it has no zoning ordinance. Its land-usage title runs from Chapter 150 to Chapter 161, and reading every chapter heading in that range returns building regulations, watershed, subdivision, ridge, erosion, flood, farmland, manufactured home parks, slope, solid waste, high impact development and shooting ranges. Nothing named zoning, and no district map. Source: Haywood County Ordinances and Regulations (the county's published chapter list), reviewed 2026-09-13.

What inspections does a mobile home need in Haywood County?

Sixteen things checked, and one of them is the County Engineer. The Inspections Department publishes its manufactured home procedure as a single page, and it is unusually specific. Read it before the set-up contractor schedules anything, because several of the items are things that are cheap to do in the right order and expensive to undo. Source: Haywood County Ordinances and Regulations (the county's published chapter list), reviewed 2026-09-13.

Do I need a septic or well permit in Haywood County?

One county, several counters, and one town that is not covered. With no zoning ordinance, the question 'who do I ask' has a different answer here than in a county with a planning department that owns the whole process. Development Services holds the land-use ordinances, Inspections holds the building permit, Environmental Health holds septic and wells, and the Town of Waynesville holds its own. Source: Haywood County Ordinances and Regulations (the county's published chapter list), reviewed 2026-09-13.

Manufactured Home Placement Questions

Start with what the sources actually support.

Do I need a permit for a mobile home in Haywood County?

Haywood County has no county zoning ordinance - its published land-usage chapters run 150 to 161 and none of the twelve is zoning

Outside a town there is no zoning district to check, no permitted-use table to pass and no special use hearing before a manufactured home is allowed on your own land

What the county regulates instead is the ground: slope, watershed, flood, erosion, ridge, subdivision and manufactured home parks - seven separate land-use permits from one department

The Slope Ordinance, Chapter 158, applies everywhere in the county outside the corporate limits and planning jurisdictions of the towns

Four towns run their own planning and zoning - Waynesville, Canton, Clyde and Maggie Valley - and inside them the town's rules decide, not the county's silence

The county's building inspectors do not cover the Town of Waynesville's limits or its extraterritorial jurisdiction at all

A septic and well permit is required before a building permit, not alongside it

Two or more manufactured homes on one tract, occupied as residences with payment made to the landowner, is a manufactured home park under Chapter 157 and needs a park permit

Family placed on your land free of charge is specifically excepted from the park definition

Chapter 157's definition of a manufactured home includes park trailers and park model RVs, so what the dealer calls the unit is not what the ordinance calls it

Mountain Ridge Protection regulates buildings over 40 feet tall on protected ridges - it does not reach an ordinary one-storey manufactured home

A new home is installed to the manufacturer's setup manual and the manual must be on site for the inspector

A pre-owned home is installed to the original setup manual if it survives, and to the NC Regulations for Manufactured Homes, 2004 Edition if it does not

Underpinning may not be installed until every inspection is complete and approved

No power is authorised until everything has passed inspection and a permanent address has been issued

Grade and slope must be inspected and approved by the County Engineer before the home passes final

Haywood County Local Process Guide

Official-source-backed starting points and questions to verify.

These sections organize the public source links already reviewed for this page. Where a source does not answer a project-specific question, the item is framed as something to ask the county, AHJ, utility company, licensed professional, dealer, setup contractor, or responsible provider.

Where a home is allowed

There is no zoning to pass.

Most counties in this library answer the question with a use table. Haywood has no table, because it has no zoning ordinance. Its land-usage title runs from Chapter 150 to Chapter 161, and reading every chapter heading in that range returns building regulations, watershed, subdivision, ridge, erosion, flood, farmland, manufactured home parks, slope, solid waste, high impact development and shooting ranges. Nothing named zoning, and no district map.

Chapter 150 Building Regulations. Chapter 151 Watershed Protection. Chapter 152A Subdivision and Predevelopment. Chapter 153 Mountain Ridge Protection. Chapter 154 Erosion and Sediment Control. Chapter 155 Flood Damage Prevention. Chapter 156 Farmland Preservation. Chapter 157 Manufactured Home Park. Chapter 158 Slope Ordinance. Chapter 159 Public Health and Solid Waste. Chapter 160 High Impact Development. Chapter 161 Commercial Outdoor Sport Shooting Ranges.
For a single manufactured home on your own land, outside a town, that means no district to be in, no permitted-use cell to read, no special use permit and no rezoning. The home is allowed unless something about the ground stops it.
This is the opposite answer to a county like Lee, where a manufactured home is permitted in one district out of seventeen. Two counties, two hours apart, and the question that matters is not the same question.
It also means the usual first step - look up the parcel's zoning - returns nothing here, and returning nothing is the correct answer rather than a failed search.
What it does not mean: that nothing regulates the parcel. Six of the twelve chapters above can apply to a house lot, and Development Services administers seven separate permits.

Adverse finding

The slope is the gate, and it is a real one.

Chapter 158, the Slope Ordinance, applies to property throughout the county located outside the corporate limits and planning and zoning jurisdictions of all municipalities. In a county where the buildable land is on a hillside, this is the chapter that decides what a pad costs and whether it can be cut at all. It is administered by an Ordinance Administrator with an Engineering Review Board behind them.

Any slope, or contiguous series of graded or filled slopes, 40 feet or more in vertical height and steeper than 1:1 for a cut or 1.5:1 for a fill, is not allowed unless the Ordinance Administrator issues a specific authorisation - and a professional inspection must be obtained and submitted before that authorisation is even considered.
In deciding it, the Ordinance Administrator weighs whether other alternatives exist, the slope's factor of safety, its stability and the likelihood of failure. It is a judgement, not a checklist, and it can go against you.
A cut slope steeper than 1:1 or a fill steeper than 1.5:1 that is more than 15 feet in vertical height may also require a professional inspection, if the Ordinance Administrator so determines.
Responsibility is stated plainly: proper assessment of site conditions is the responsibility of the landowner or the person financially responsible for the slope activity. Not the dealer, and not the grading contractor by default.
On residential lots the average slope is measured by triangulating the line of the highest natural elevation to the lowest natural elevation against the horizontal - and if the slope bulges, drops off, climbs, or shows signs of creep, the lines are adjusted to describe the areas of concern rather than averaged away.
A slope construction permit is not required for a short list of excluded activities, one of which is the below-grade portion of a residential structure that already has a current building permit and complies with the State Building Code. Cutting the pad and the driveway is not on that list.
Retaining walls can pull in the Inspections Department as well, because the State Building Code carries its own requirements for them.
Nothing on this page tells you the slope of a particular parcel. That is a measurement on that ground, and it is the cheapest thing to establish before an offer and one of the most expensive to discover after.

Adverse finding

Two homes and rent makes it a park.

Chapter 157 defines a manufactured home park as a tract of land upon which two or more manufactured homes are located and which are occupied as residences and for which payment to the landowner is being required. Two. Not five, not ten. A park needs a construction permit and an operating permit from the Ordinance Administrator, and operating one without them is unlawful under the chapter.

The exception is written into the definition: where an individual property owner allows family, as the chapter defines family, to keep manufactured homes on his or her property free of charge, that is not a manufactured home park. Free of charge is the operative phrase.
So the common plan - put a second home on the back of the lot for a relative and take something toward the taxes - is the plan that crosses the line, and the line is money, not the relationship.
The chapter sizes parks in three bands: a special park is three or fewer spaces on a new or existing private road, a minor park is four to ten spaces, and a major park is eleven or more. One phase of a planned development cannot be counted as a minor park unless the whole development stays under eleven.
Chapter 157 applies only in the unincorporated areas of the county. It is not enforced inside the corporate limits or jurisdiction of any municipality, and its permit criteria do not apply to parks that already existed when the chapter first took effect.
The chapter's own definition of a manufactured home includes park trailers, park model RVs and other transportable structures placed on a site and intended to be improved property. If you are buying something the seller calls a park model, this county's park ordinance still counts it as a manufactured home.
If you are renting a space in an existing park, whether that park holds a current operating permit is a fair question to ask the landlord before you move a home onto it.

What does not stop you

The ridge ordinance does not reach a one-storey home.

Haywood has a Mountain Ridge Protection ordinance and it is easy to assume it blocks building on a mountain. Read as written, it does not reach an ordinary manufactured home at all - it regulates tall buildings, and a manufactured home is not one. This is stated here because a rule that sounds like it applies and does not is as expensive as one that applies and is missed.

A protected mountain ridge means a ridge whose elevation is at least 3,000 feet and whose elevation is 500 or more feet above the elevation of an adjacent valley floor. Both conditions, not either.
A tall building or structure means one with a vertical height of more than 40 feet, measured from the top of the foundation to the uppermost point - with the measurement extended if the foundation itself rises more than three feet above the natural finished grade, and with an absolute limit of 35 feet of protrusion above the crest of the ridge.
Chapter 153 applies to the construction of tall buildings or structures on protected mountain ridges. A single-section or double-section home on piers is nowhere near 40 feet, so the chapter's permit requirement is not triggered by the home itself.
The protected ridges are identified on a map titled 'Identification of Protected Mountain Ridges in the County', kept in the office of the enforcement officer - the Building Inspector - the Development Services Director and the Register of Deeds. If you want to know whether a parcel is on one, that map is where the answer lives.
The chapter applies outside the territorial jurisdiction of the county's municipalities, and can be extended into a municipality only if that municipality asks for it by resolution.
None of this makes a ridge lot easy. The slope ordinance, the septic and the driveway still apply, and on a ridge lot they are usually the binding constraints.

The inspection

Sixteen things checked, and one of them is the County Engineer.

The Inspections Department publishes its manufactured home procedure as a single page, and it is unusually specific. Read it before the set-up contractor schedules anything, because several of the items are things that are cheap to do in the right order and expensive to undo.

A new manufactured home is installed to the manufacturer's setup manual, and the manual must be available to the inspector at the time of inspection.
A pre-owned home is installed to the original manufacturer's setup manual if it is available, and to the NC Regulations for Manufactured Homes, 2004 Edition if it is not. If the original manual is used it has to be on site too.
A footing inspection is required for piers, masonry skirting, perimeter foundations and any addition such as a porch, deck or garage, before any concrete is poured. The footing must be free of loose soil, mud, water, roots and any other foreign matter.
For a pre-owned double-wide or triple-wide where the original setup manual is unavailable, ABS pads may be used in place of concrete footings.
Do not install underpinning until all inspections have been completed and approved. It is item one on the county's own list.
Water lines above ground must be insulated except in crawl spaces with masonry underpinning. The ditch carrying a well wire must be at least 24 inches deep.
The sewer line runs to the tank or the sewer with required cleanouts, is sealed at the tank, and the ditch is left open for the inspector.
HVAC crossover ducts are installed per the NC Mechanical Code with approved hanger straps at least one and a half inches wide, and kept at least 4 inches off the ground.
Positive drainage is provided underneath the home and away from it for at least 3 feet on all sides.
The septic tank has been inspected and approved by Environmental Health, and the grade and slope has been inspected and approved by the County Engineer. Both are conditions of the final, not afterthoughts.
Leave a door unlocked - the county says so in writing, and a locked home is a failed trip.
No power is authorised for the home until everything has passed inspection and a permanent address is issued. Apply to the power company ahead of time; the address is a separate step with its own queue.

Who permits what

One county, several counters, and one town that is not covered.

With no zoning ordinance, the question 'who do I ask' has a different answer here than in a county with a planning department that owns the whole process. Development Services holds the land-use ordinances, Inspections holds the building permit, Environmental Health holds septic and wells, and the Town of Waynesville holds its own.

Development Services administers seven land-use permits that can bear on a house lot: protected public water supply watershed, Special Flood Hazard Area, protected ridge, subdivision and pre-development, manufactured home parks, erosion permit and slope permit. Phone 828-452-6632.
Inspections issues the permits for new construction, additions and alterations, manufactured homes, recreational vehicles, retaining walls, and electrical, mechanical and plumbing installations. Phone 828-452-6638, at 1233 N. Main St., Waynesville.
The Inspections Department's jurisdiction is all of Haywood County with the exception of the city limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction of the Town of Waynesville. If the parcel is in there, the permit comes from the town.
Environmental Health does soil site evaluations, septic permits and repairs, and well permits and water testing. Phone 828-452-6682. Its own page states that a septic and well permit are required prior to obtaining a building permit.
The county's boards include a Haywood County Planning Board, and separately a Canton Planning and Zoning Board, a Clyde Planning Board, a Clyde Board of Zoning Adjustments, a Maggie Valley Planning Board, a Maggie Valley Zoning Board and a Waynesville Planning Board - which is how you can tell that zoning in this county is a town matter.
The county also runs a Development Services and Environmental Health permitting portal for applications; the ordinances themselves are published as individual chapter PDFs rather than on a code-hosting service.

What this page could not settle

Five open questions, written as questions.

Each of these changes the answer for a real parcel and none is settled by the documents read for this page. They are gaps in what was read, not findings.

What a slope construction permit costs and how long it takes. No Haywood County fee schedule and no published review time was read for any of the seven Development Services permits.
What a manufactured home building and set-up permit costs. The inspection procedures handout carries no fees, and no Haywood County permit fee schedule was read.
What Haywood's septic and well fees are, and how long the environmental health queue is. Neither was read for this page, and neither is stated.
Why Chapter 158, the Slope Ordinance, does not appear on the county's own Ordinances and Regulations page while Chapter 152A cross-references it twice. The chapter is published and reachable; the omission from the list is recorded and not explained here.
Whether the chapter PDFs read are the current adopted text. The list page dates every entry 7-20-2026 and the individual chapters carry their own 'Ord. passed' lines; neither is a codification date. Confirm with Development Services before money moves.

Local Prerequisites To Verify

Environmental health, utilities, zoning, and access may shape the sequence.

Septic approval or existing-system review

County sources often require septic approval, construction authorization, or existing-system authorization before or alongside manufactured-home permitting.

Septic

Well or water availability

County sources may require well, public water, or water-sewer tap documentation before a permit can move forward.

Well Plumbing

Water/sewer availability

Some county sources ask for sewer approval, tap receipts, or public water documentation when applicable.

Plumbing Septic Well

Utility service availability

Some county sources connect power release or final readiness to completed trade inspections or utility-provider steps.

Electrical HVAC Propane / Gas

Zoning or land-use review

County sources may require zoning, municipal zoning, watershed, floodplain, or land-use review before manufactured-home placement.

Engineering

Driveway or access

Driveway, access, or delivery-route questions belong in the library only where county or source-backed process notes make them relevant.

Driveway Improvement Grading and Site Preparation Transport and Setup

Inspection-Related Scopes

Limited to source-backed manufactured-home scopes.

Grading and Site Preparation

Use only where source-backed county or state guidance ties grading to pad, drainage, foundation readiness, access, footers, or setup readiness.

Several county sources reference site grading, drainage, footings, setup readiness, or documents needed before power or final signoff.

Transport and Setup

Core manufactured-home installation scope for delivery, setup, pier/blocking, anchoring, tie-downs, setup contractor information, and inspection readiness.

The NC Installation Manual is the primary statewide installation source; county manufactured-home process pages may add local setup contractor, permit, and inspection steps.

Electrical

Electrical service, site-installed electrical work, utility handoffs, and inspection readiness when source-backed.

County sources commonly separate electrical permits or inspections for mobile/manufactured-home setup.

Plumbing

Plumbing connections, water and waste lines, pressure or water tests, and final readiness where source-backed.

County sources commonly separate plumbing permits or inspections for mobile/manufactured-home setup.

HVAC

Mechanical systems, heat pump or air-conditioning work, ducting, and final readiness where source-backed.

County sources commonly reference mechanical permits or inspections for mobile/manufactured-home setup.

Propane / Gas

Use only when official guidance mentions gas service, gas appliance connections, LP systems, fuel-gas inspection, pressure testing, shutoffs, or installation-manual requirements.

Onslow County explicitly groups gas fuel work with prescriptive code and NC manufactured-home regulations for manufactured-home permits.

Decks / Stairs / Landings / Handicap Ramps

Egress, steps, landings, handrails, ramps, deck thresholds, and final access readiness where source-backed.

County manufactured-home guides may reference stoops, steps, landings, handrails, and deck-size thresholds.

Masonry / Block / Foundation

Footings, piers, blocking, masonry skirting/foundation presentation, soil bearing, anchorage, and foundation readiness where source-backed.

County sources reference footings, piers, blocking, anchorage, soil bearing, tie-downs, or foundation-related items in inspection processes.

Vinyl Skirting

Skirting or underpinning only where source-backed guidance connects it to inspection timing, access, ventilation, appearance, or placement requirements.

County manufactured-home inspection documents may reference skirting timing, access panels, or underpinning requirements.

Trim-Out / Carpentry

Use only where official guidance touches final trim-out, marriage line completion, close-up, access panels, finish details, weatherproofing, or readiness for final inspection.

Onslow County references marriage wall inspection for multi-wide homes and close-up type items within manufactured-home setup inspections.

Questions To Ask The County

Bring better questions to the right local office.

Is this parcel inside the town limits or the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Waynesville, Canton, Clyde or Maggie Valley? If it is, a town zoning ordinance decides and nothing on this page about county silence applies.

Does the pad I need require cut or fill, and does that trigger a slope construction permit under Chapter 158?

How tall will the finished cut or fill slope be, and how steep - measured, not estimated?

Is any part of this parcel inside a protected water supply watershed, a Special Flood Hazard Area, or a protected ridge?

Has an improvement permit for septic already been issued for this lot, and is there a well or a public connection?

Am I planning to place more than one home on this tract, and will anyone pay me to live in one of them?

If the home is pre-owned, does the original manufacturer's setup manual come with it?

Who is responsible for the grade and drainage the County Engineer has to approve - me, the dealer, or the set-up contractor?

Has a permanent address been issued for this parcel, and how long does that take here?

Which of the seven Development Services permits does my project need, and can I get that answer in writing before I buy?

Related provider types

Transport and Setup Septic Well Electrical Plumbing HVAC Grading and Site Preparation Masonry / Block / Foundation Driveway Improvement

Related project stages

Purchasing or Acquiring Land Permits, Septic, and Utilities Preparing Your Land Setup and Installation After Installation / Move-In

Source notes

The finding that Haywood County has no zoning ordinance rests on two readings, not one. First, the county's own Ordinances and Regulations page lists nine chapters and none is zoning. Second, because that list is demonstrably incomplete - Chapter 158 is missing from it - every chapter heading in the land-usage range was read directly from the county's published PDFs: 150 Building Regulations, 151 Watershed Protection, 152A Subdivision and Predevelopment, 153 Mountain Ridge Protection, 154 Erosion and Sediment Control, 155 Flood Damage Prevention, 156 Farmland Preservation, 157 Manufactured Home Park, 158 Slope Ordinance, 159 Public Health and Solid Waste Awareness and Compliance, 160 High Impact Development, 161 Commercial Outdoor Sport Shooting Ranges. The next document id is not a chapter and the one after it does not exist, which is how the range is known to be closed. Read 2026-09-13.

The accept case for that chapter reading: two of the documents read blind returned Chapter 151 Watershed Protection and Chapter 155 Flood Damage Prevention, which are the same chapters and numbers the county's own list names - so the reader is reporting real headings rather than one answer for every file. Read 2026-09-13.

The absence of a zoning ordinance is scoped to what was read: twelve chapters in the county's land-usage title, published by Haywood County, on 2026-09-13. It is not a statement about any town in the county, and four of them run their own zoning.

The manufactured home park definition, the family exception, the three park size bands, the jurisdiction limited to unincorporated areas and the definition of a manufactured home that includes park trailers and park model RVs are all from Chapter 157, sections 157.02 and 157.03.

The slope height limitation, the 15-foot professional inspection threshold, the excluded activities, the statement of the landowner's responsibility and the residential slope measurement method are from Chapter 158, sections 158.04, 158.06, 158.07, 158.08 and 158.09.

The protected mountain ridge and tall building definitions, the 3,000-foot and 500-foot thresholds, the 40-foot height test and the location of the protected ridge map are from Chapter 153, sections 153.01 and 153.04. The conclusion that the chapter does not reach an ordinary manufactured home follows from the height definition; no Haywood County official has stated it and no such statement is claimed.

The sixteen set-up and final conditions, the footing inspection rule, the ABS pad provision for pre-owned multi-section homes, the NC Regulations for Manufactured Homes 2004 Edition for pre-owned homes, and the rule that no power is authorised until inspection passes and a permanent address is issued are from the Inspections Department's Manufactured Home Inspection Procedures, which carries no revision date on its face.

The seven Development Services permits, the department phone numbers, the septic-and-well-before-building-permit statement and the Inspections Department jurisdiction excluding Waynesville's limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction are from the county's Who Permits What page.

The list of town planning and zoning boards is from Haywood County's own published board pages. It is read as evidence that those towns run zoning, not as a description of any town's rules.

No fee, no review time and no queue length is stated anywhere on this page, because none was read from a Haywood County source.

No written answer from Haywood County Development Services, the Inspections Department or Environmental Health is on file for this page.

This page carries the offices, addresses and published department phone numbers from the county's own documents, and no staff names.

No project approval, inspection result, or utility-release outcome is implied.

Helpful Next Steps

Move from Haywood County questions into the right My Manufactured Home Guide path.

Use these pages to organize the next question by stage, responsibility, utility path, setup readiness, or private project summary. They do not replace county, utility, AHJ, or professional confirmation.

Manufactured-home permit order

Separate land-use, environmental health, permit, setup, trade, and utility-release lanes.

How to check zoning for a manufactured home

Ask district, use, and dimensional questions before assuming a parcel allows a home.

Manufactured-home site plan checklist

Prepare parcel, structure, access, septic, well, and setback information for local review.

Source Hierarchy

State installation guidance first, then local process.

The NC Installation Manual sets how a home is installed statewide. Haywood County's own offices set the permit steps, zoning, septic and inspections.

NC installation guidance

primary statewide installation source

Primary statewide installation source: NC Installation Manual

Primary statewide installation source for North Carolina manufactured-home installation requirements, published as the State of North Carolina Regulations for Manufactured Homes.

state program authority

State program authority: NC OSFM Manufactured Homes

Official state manufactured-homes program landing page and document hub; use the NC Installation Manual for installation-specific requirement details.

state program authority

State program authority: NC OSFM Manufactured Building

Official NC OSFM manufactured building division page for manufactured and modular housing resources.

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Haywood County local process sources

County and local AHJ sources explain local process layers; they do not replace statewide installation guidance or project-specific authority.

County Links and Source Notes

Official source links reviewed for this page.

We organize Haywood County's own sources. Rules change — confirm them with the county before you rely on them.

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Local process source: Haywood County Ordinances and Regulations (the county's published chapter list)

Development Services' own list of the county's ordinances, every entry dated 7-20-2026 on the page: Chapter 30 Departments, Boards and Commissions; Chapter 97 Off-Premise Sign Control; Chapter 114 Junkyards and Other Facilities; Chapter 115 Wireless Telecommunications Facilities; Chapter 151 Watershed Protection; Chapter 152A Subdivision and Predevelopment; Chapter 153 Mountain Ridge Protection; Chapter 155 Flood Damage Prevention; Chapter 157 Manufactured Home Park. No zoning chapter appears on it. Read 2026-09-13.

Responsible authority / official host: haywoodcountync.gov
Purpose and coverage: local process source
Last verified: 2026-09-13
Link health: Verified when reviewed; reconfirm the current page or form before relying on it.
Fallback status: Direct local-process starting point

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Local process source: Chapter 157, Manufactured Home Park

The county ordinance that defines a manufactured home park, sets the three park sizes, and states that the chapter applies only in the unincorporated areas of the county. Carries the definitions quoted on this page, including the two-home threshold and the family exception. Enacted under G.S. 153A-121; the sections read carry 'Ord. passed 1-1-2004; Ord. passed 12-4-2023'. Read 2026-09-13.

Responsible authority / official host: haywoodcountync.gov
Purpose and coverage: local process source
Last verified: 2026-09-13
Link health: Verified when reviewed; reconfirm the current page or form before relying on it.
Fallback status: Direct local-process starting point

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Local process source: Chapter 158, Slope Ordinance

The chapter that matters most for a home on a mountain lot: it applies to property throughout the county outside the corporate limits and planning and zoning jurisdictions of all municipalities. Carries the excluded activities, the slope height limitation and the factor-of-safety table. Sections read carry 'Ord. passed 3-1-2007; Ord. passed 3-4-2024'. This chapter is NOT listed on the county's Ordinances and Regulations page. Read 2026-09-13.

Responsible authority / official host: haywoodcountync.gov
Purpose and coverage: local process source
Last verified: 2026-09-13
Link health: Verified when reviewed; reconfirm the current page or form before relying on it.
Fallback status: Direct local-process starting point

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Local process source: Chapter 153, Mountain Ridge Protection

Defines a protected mountain ridge and a tall building or structure, and applies only to the second on the first. Sections read carry 'Ord. passed 12-5-1983; Ord. passed 9-5-2023' with a statutory reference to G.S. 113A-206. Read 2026-09-13.

Responsible authority / official host: haywoodcountync.gov
Purpose and coverage: local process source
Last verified: 2026-09-13
Link health: Verified when reviewed; reconfirm the current page or form before relying on it.
Fallback status: Direct local-process starting point

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Local process source: Haywood County Manufactured Home Inspection Procedures

The Inspections Department's own handout for a manufactured home set-up: which manual governs a new home and which governs a pre-owned one, when the footing inspection happens, and the sixteen numbered conditions checked at the set-up and final inspection. Haywood County Inspections Department, 1233 N. Main St., Waynesville, NC 28786, phone 828-452-6638, fax 828-452-6791. The document carries no revision date on its face. Read 2026-09-13.

Responsible authority / official host: haywoodcountync.gov
Purpose and coverage: local process source
Last verified: 2026-09-13
Link health: Verified when reviewed; reconfirm the current page or form before relying on it.
Fallback status: Direct local-process starting point

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Local process source: Who Permits What

Development Services' own page naming which department permits which activity, the seven land-use permits Development Services administers, the statement that a septic and well permit are required prior to obtaining a building permit, and the statement that the Inspections Department's jurisdiction is all of Haywood County except the town limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction of Waynesville. Read 2026-09-13.

Responsible authority / official host: haywoodcountync.gov
Purpose and coverage: local process source
Last verified: 2026-09-13
Link health: Verified when reviewed; reconfirm the current page or form before relying on it.
Fallback status: Direct local-process starting point

Manufactured Home Land Check

Will this Haywood County land take a manufactured home? Find out before you commit to buying the land, or the home.

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