01-20-2015, 12:51 PM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
Without permits, some people would build firetraps that are a danger to themselves and others ... to be lava safe it is best not to build on a volcano.
Point being: there's a huge disconnect here. How can it be "permissible" to build on an active volcano that will turn any building into a "firetrap"?
LZ1 (and, probably, LZ2) should have been a wild-west style "live and let live" zone, not another "permit-license-fee-inspection" residential subdivision.
The big difference is this: if you have a typical slow moving lava flow you have to really try to die from it, but if you live in a house with funky wiring and no fire blocks in the walls a fire can rip through your house in no time and kill everyone in it. It is one thing to have a natural disaster take your house after you emptied it of your belongings, it is another to have a person deliberately build and sell a house that is unsafe fire wise, just to cut a few corners and save some money.