10-07-2024, 04:44 PM
You found me out, 'Tang... ;-)
I am a huge proponent of tiny homes, alternative homes and alternative building materials (aircrete, cobb, rammed earth, wattle-and-daub, repurposed, recycled, upcycled, etc.,...all the things), sustainable living, off-grid living...letting people have what is a basic fundamental part of life...a place to live!
Consider other parts of the world, and how and where people live in what sorts of structures. Are they bothering anyone else?
Why, here in the US (and particularly here in HI , where we inexplicably follow CA's outlandish over-engineered building requirements...we're in *jungle*, here, in and around Puna, a rainforest!
I drive around and see so many funky, creative, alternative little builds that are somehow seemably still surviving "under the radar", and I congratulate them for their ingenuity.
But noooo, some bureaucrat or nosy neighbor steps in and interferes, because heaven forbid someone should be allowed to live the way they want, that isn't affecting anyone around them? Maybe *they* didn't get to do their own thing, so they gotta piss on anyone else who does?
I get that there could be the danger of a fire due to poor building practices, but realistically, how often would something like that happen, and considering the state the insurance industry is in now, how would it be any different than if you did have a standard legal permitted structure and a fire happened, you know the insurance companies will do everything they can to avoid paying out.
Please, can't people live and let live? Mind their own damned business?
Ok, I've said a lot and had no coffee (yet!) so I'll let this stand, and maybe elucidate further later or answer any other thoughts that come up.
~'Ferret, out... (but not down!)
I am a huge proponent of tiny homes, alternative homes and alternative building materials (aircrete, cobb, rammed earth, wattle-and-daub, repurposed, recycled, upcycled, etc.,...all the things), sustainable living, off-grid living...letting people have what is a basic fundamental part of life...a place to live!
Consider other parts of the world, and how and where people live in what sorts of structures. Are they bothering anyone else?
Why, here in the US (and particularly here in HI , where we inexplicably follow CA's outlandish over-engineered building requirements...we're in *jungle*, here, in and around Puna, a rainforest!
I drive around and see so many funky, creative, alternative little builds that are somehow seemably still surviving "under the radar", and I congratulate them for their ingenuity.
But noooo, some bureaucrat or nosy neighbor steps in and interferes, because heaven forbid someone should be allowed to live the way they want, that isn't affecting anyone around them? Maybe *they* didn't get to do their own thing, so they gotta piss on anyone else who does?
I get that there could be the danger of a fire due to poor building practices, but realistically, how often would something like that happen, and considering the state the insurance industry is in now, how would it be any different than if you did have a standard legal permitted structure and a fire happened, you know the insurance companies will do everything they can to avoid paying out.
Please, can't people live and let live? Mind their own damned business?
Ok, I've said a lot and had no coffee (yet!) so I'll let this stand, and maybe elucidate further later or answer any other thoughts that come up.
~'Ferret, out... (but not down!)