Cob RE: cob codes

[susie]

M J Epko wrote:
> 
> At 05:54 PM 9/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >M J Epko wrote:
> >>       Anyway, this "international" code, like the codes that exist
> already, is
> >> free to be adopted, rejected, or amended by municipalities, but it's
> expected that
> >> everywhere will switch over.
> >
> >Does "everywhere" include rural areas that do not presently have building
> codes?
> >Will it be retroactive?  Just what exactly does this mean for the average
> wanna-be
> >cobber contemplating a move to the countryside?  Should we get our cob
> cottages
> >built before the year 2000?
> >
> >Fearful and paranoid but burning with righteous indignation,
> >Paul V.
> 
>         *laughing* ... Keep those righteous-indignation-fires burning, Paul! I
> would suspect that those places which have been doing fine without building
> codes being enforced aren't going to want to introduce any. And there have
> always been pirate buildings (which I consider to be a legitimate option,
> though they can make you tear it down if they catch you and can prove that
> it's a new building), which are fine for the owner-builder but don't help
> much in the code issue, except if it's still standing a hundred years later
> and people can point to it and say, "Look, that one's been there for a
> hundred years!"
> 
>         Building Codes haven't ever been retroactive as far as I know - old houses
> that would never meet today's codes but are still functioning can't be
> red-tagged. They can be condemned for any reason at all, though, or even
> none. Hooray for eminent domain.
> 
>         By "everywhere," I meant everywhere that already has codes in place.
> Enforcement costs bucks, and not every municipality wants to deal with it.
> I respect that. A lot.
> 
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>     M J Epko - duckchow at mail2.greenbuilder.com
>                Kingston, New Mexico
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WE DON'T HAVE BUILDING CODES IN DALLAS COUNTY, MISSOURI!!!!!
BELIEVE ME~~~~~