As I sit here with helicopters buzzing overhead...

[YurtGirl]

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Originally posted by mdd7000

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Originally posted by YurtGirl

... How about since they're obviously making money on these tourists, they be asked to put some of it toward neighborhood impact funds of the neighborhoods at whose expense they cash in?...

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Sorry YurtGirl. You are one of the people complaining about government intrusion regarding the type of house and how it is constructed over on the Building in Puna forum. Most people would call INSULATION a good start, not to mention that a YURT probably isn't very noise resistant to begin with.

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Creating a means for affected neighborhoods to be compensated hardly equates with government requiring people to pay thousands of dollars for an unecessary and ill conceived mandatory safe room code. I recently read something about the state having to pay impact fees for the neighborhoods that are affect by airports... anyone know anything about that? It was in the paper, I was on the run, but it jumped out at me because it was right after I commented about the possibility of that. I don't want the impact funds. I want PEACE AND QUIET! But hitting them in the pocketbook may go further than asking them to respect people's airspace just out of common decency.

mdd, talk to some home designers, architects, contractors around here and you will realize the faulty stance on insulation. We are a tropical climate where most people use ventilation to cool their homes incredibly well. a/c is not the norm. Insulation would cause the need for a/c, which is quite the opposite of a sustainable solution.

And mdd, I get that you don't like yurts, but I think before you make disparaging remarks, for your own argument, you might go stay in one sometime so you have valid complaints about them. With proper insulation, noise is no more of an issue than most other houses that are geared toward ventilation. Personally, I like to hear nature. Not copters though.