If your home in Columbus, Newark, Heath, Pataskala, and the townships of Franklin and Licking counties is not livable after the August storms, you may be able to stay on your own property while it is repaired. We deliver a furnished travel trailer to your driveway or yard, set it up, have it connected, and service it for the whole stay. When a carrier approves the trailer, we can bill the carrier directly.
Local rules. Columbus allows a mobile home as emergency housing after a catastrophic loss for 90 days, renewable once, and Franklin County lets its Board of Zoning Appeals approve an RV in the Rural district; Newark bars living in a travel trailer. Each rule is linked to its official source below.
Housing a crew? Franklin County and Newark bar living in a travel trailer outside an approved campground, job sites included, and no code we found lets a crew live on site. Crew rules and housing
FEMA lists Franklin County and Licking County under Individual Assistance for this disaster. Households there apply for FEMA help at DisasterAssistance.gov; Ohio EMA gives December 1, 2026 as the deadline to apply in Ohio. For Franklin and Licking counties, official updates come from the Franklin County Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Licking County Emergency Management Agency, and Ohio Emergency Management Agency.
Checked against the sources above as of . For current information, go to the source.
What the official county, city, state, and FEMA pages stated when we read them. Each line carries its date and links its source.
Not stated on an official page. Anything not listed here was not stated on an official page we read. Ask the county emergency management agency for the latest.
Whether a trailer can stay on your lot is decided by your city or town, or by the county or township outside city limits, and by your HOA if you have one. Here is what each one’s own code or official page says, in short. Our parent brand covers the residential RV rules for Columbus, Franklin County, and Licking County in detail.
Ohio law lets a township, or a county with rural zoning, bar travel trailers from its residential districts, so outside a city or village the township or county zoning office has the say. Where a township has no zoning, building and health rules still apply.
That depends on your policy and your adjuster. When a carrier approves the trailer, we can bill the carrier directly, so you are not fronting the cost. Our parent brand explains the claim side on 1st Choice Living’s Columbus, Franklin County, and Licking County page. Once the placement is arranged, the trailer, delivery, and service are ours.
Every size arrives furnished, with real beds, a full kitchen, a bathroom with a shower, and heat and air conditioning. If the work on the house runs into the cold months, read winter care and freeze protection before the first hard freeze. More on a trailer on your property while you rebuild.
We work with any temporary housing company. If one is handling your housing, ask them to place you with Temporary RV Living, or with our parent brand, 1st Choice Living, for a trailer on your own lot in Franklin and Licking counties. They send us the placement, and we deliver, set up, and service the trailer.
For restoration, roofing, tree, utility, and response crews working in Columbus, Newark, Heath, Pataskala, and the townships of Franklin and Licking counties. Bring the housing to the work. We deliver travel trailers to the site, or as close as the ground allows, and set up and connect them the same way we do in a driveway. A two-person crew fits one trailer. A full crew takes a cluster, and the Workforce Bunkhouse sleeps six or more per trailer, with a kitchen and a bathroom the crew shares. One point of contact runs the placement, it lands on one invoice billed directly to the company, and we handle the LOA, COI, and compliance paperwork your office or your client requires.
No code we found in Franklin or Licking County lets a crew live in travel trailers on a job site. Ask the zoning office for the site before delivery, with the address and how long the crew expects to stay; the trailers can also go on land zoned for them nearby. More on crew housing.
Water, sewer or septic, and electrical connections are completed by licensed, insured contractors from our preferred vendor network, so you do not hire an electrician or a plumber. We look at how far the trailer will sit from the water, sewer, and power it will use, and confirm the site with you on the call before the trailer rolls.
Electric service in Franklin and Licking counties comes from the utilities below. Each posts its own outage updates.
Septic: Ohio's state septic rules say a sewage treatment system may not be installed, altered, or operated without a permit from the local board of health. We found no county rule written for hooking a trailer to a home's septic system, so call the county health department before connecting. Source: Ohio Adm. Code 3701-29-06, General provisions and prohibitions
Call the office for the city or town where the trailer will sit, or the county or township office outside city limits. Ask whether a travel trailer may be used there, for how long, and which permits the hookups need.
Answer a few questions in the request form and a rep calls you back with a written quote, or call (214) 493-1515.
Our sister brand LossMap covers documenting a property from the air for a claim, on LossMap’s Columbus, Franklin County, and Licking County page.
Columbus zoning allows a temporary use permit for a mobile home as emergency housing for the victim of a fire or catastrophic loss, on the lot where the loss happened, for 90 days, renewable for up to 90 more. It names a mobile home, not a travel trailer, so ask Columbus Building and Zoning Services whether an RV qualifies before anyone moves in.
The Franklin County zoning resolution says RVs and camping trailers may not be used for living or sleeping outside an approved campground. In the Rural district, the Board of Zoning Appeals can approve a mobile home, RV, or camper as a temporary residence for up to 18 months as a conditional use, if water and sewage are properly provided. Ask Franklin County Zoning first.
Newark's zoning code says no one may live or sleep in a travel trailer or motor home outside an approved campground or park. Licking County does not zone the townships itself: 19 of its 25 townships have their own zoning and 6 have none. We found no rule online for Heath or Pataskala, so call the city or township zoning office before anyone moves in.
Not under any code we found. Franklin County and Newark bar living or sleeping in a travel trailer anywhere outside an approved campground, job sites included, and we found no crew rule for Columbus, Heath, or Pataskala. Ask the zoning office for the site before delivery.
We deliver, set up, and service trailers nationwide, and have since 2004. Put the address in the request form and we confirm the site with you on the call.
Official pages and official code hosts, checked October 17, 2026. Rules can change after a storm; the office that wrote the rule has the final word.
For your family or a crew, answer a few questions and a rep calls you back with a written quote.
