ADU rules in Edmond

Edmond's zoning ordinance (Title 22) has no accessory dwelling unit use: quoted Municode searches for 'accessory dwelling', 'accessory dwellings', 'accessory apartment', 'secondary dwelling', 'carriage house' and 'accessory living' return zero sections. The single-family districts (G-A, R-1, R-2-A, A and L-2) list only a 'Single-family detached dwelling' as a residential use, and Sec. 22.4.2 prohibits any use not expressly listed. The older 'garage apartment' (defined in Sec. 22.9.2 as 'a dwelling unit for one family erected connected to a private garage') survives only in the D-1-NRC nonresidential-conversion commercial district, where a 'single-family detached dwelling with or without garage apartment' is permitted by right; a backyard cottage on an ordinary house lot needs a rezoning.

There is no attached or internal ADU use either, but a second unit inside or attached to a house is lawful as a two-family dwelling where the district allows one. Sec. 22.9.2 defines a two-family dwelling as one 'designed to be occupied by two families living independently', and it is permitted by right in the B, Two-Family Dwelling district (Sec. 22.4.7) and, as part of 'Household Living', in the C-1, C-2 and C-3 multiple-family districts. Converting a house in an A or estate district requires rezoning to B or C first, a legislative hearing rather than a permit.

Title 22 sets no size for an accessory dwelling because none exists, and no floor-area cap for either unit of a two-family dwelling. The Sec. 22.5.1 table requires a 7,000 sq ft lot 50 ft wide in B (the same table's 'Min. Lot Area' row prints 3,500, read here as per unit), with 25 ft street yards, 20 ft rear yards, 5 ft side yards (8 ft for two stories) and a 35 ft height limit. For scale, Sec. 22.4.37(B)(4) caps all residential accessory structures on an urban lot (under 10,000 sq ft) at '20% of the square footage of the residence or up to 600 square feet, whichever is larger'; the chart prints no row for larger lots.

No ADU exists for an owner-occupancy rule to attach to, and the one lawful way to add a unit, a two-family dwelling in B or the C districts, is listed as permitted by right with no residency condition. Quoted Municode searches for 'owner occupied' and 'owner-occupied' find only the building code's IRC scope section (16.06.110), not a zoning condition. Oklahoma has no state ADU owner-occupancy rule either way.

The Sec. 22.6.1(C)(3) table, which applies 'in all districts', requires '2 per dwelling unit' for 'Single and two family dwelling', so turning a house into a two-family dwelling raises the lot's requirement from 2 to 4 spaces. Single-family and two-family lots are exempt from the bicycle parking requirement in the same subsection.

Where a second unit is possible at all, it is by right: a two-family dwelling carries a check in the 'P' column of the B, C-1, C-2 and C-3 use tables, which Sec. 22.4.2(A) defines as 'allowed by right', so a building permit under the 2018 IRC adopted in Sec. 16.06.010 is the only approval. No district lists a two-family dwelling or garage apartment as an 'S' use needing a City Council specific use permit under Sec. 22.3.3. In the A, R-1, R-2-A, G-A and L-2 districts there is no permit path short of a rezoning.

Quoted Municode searches for 'short-term rental' return only the lodging tax and zoning definitions, and 'rental registration' returns zero hits, so the City Code has neither a short-term rental licensing regime nor a long-term rental registry. Zoning defines 'Household Living' as occupancy 'on a month-to-month or longer basis' and 'Overnight Accommodation' as units 'arranged for short term stays of less than 30 days', whose uses (bed and breakfast, hotel, motel, extended stay) are not listed in the A or B use tables; how the city applies that to a whole-home nightly rental is not settled in the text. Sec. 3.12.020 defines 'lodging' to include 'vacation rental homes, short-term rentals', taxed at 6% by Sec. 3.12.030.