10-20-2008, 02:39 PM
About a decade or so ago (maybe it's been longer than that come to think of it) if you were building a structure under 1,800 square feet you could submit owner-builder plans to the building department and pay a small fee and build it. You had to meet the current building codes and couldn't sell it for five years after it was built but that was about the only restriction. That was before the two big hurricanes, though.
Kurt Wilson