[Cob] codes and laws

[otherfish]

Copper,
Good idea, but the political arena is not where it's going to be solved.....
what's needed is a concerted program make cob available in ALL building
codes....

I've been proposing this since 1995
but finding financial support has been the barrier to doing it....
it's a huge undertaking
a major commitment and the bucks to do it are what's needed

see:

http://www.deatech.com/natural/cobinfo/cobcode.html

this can be done .......
all it needs is the will to do it
and
$$$.......

if you know someone who is funding savy
and who sees value in setting cob free
and is willing to join in......

anything else is a less than optimum solution

please, all interested contact me.

thanks
john fordice
 





on 7/28/05 4:19 PM, Copper Harding at copperharding at yahoo.com wrote:

> Ok.  One more.
> 
> I've been watching the strawbale, earthbag, cob etc.
> the "natural building" people try their hardest to get
> the UBC or local building codes changed to allow
> "their" type of building.  Usually the type of
> building that they are totally in love with.  That
> isn't to say that any of them are bad options - but
> sometimes that taints the process of interaction with
> building officials.
> 
> Or, on some level, makes many avoid any interaction
> with them to avoid having to comply with the code.
> 
> So I was wondering, why do we have the UBC in the
> first place.  Well, to protect people.  That's a good
> thing in my book.  Why do we, as a natural building
> community, have a problem with the UBC - in short  -
> it's lack of flexibility.  Or even shorter - it denies
> us something that seems to be a pretty basic and
> intrinsict human drive - the drive for shelter.
> 
> So if it's that basic - why are we not talking, as a
> community, about changing the law that governs our
> rights from the get go?  I would recommend maybe
> changing it on a state by state level (easier to
> uphold as much of the building regulatory power is at
> the state or even the county/city level)
> 
> I would think that many states might just be open to
> changing their state constitution to protect the right
> to provide one's own shelter.
> 
> Ok - so there it is - I may have just gone off my
> rocker.  If so, please email me and tell me it's the
> shortage of blood circulating to my brain due to the
> extensive drain of moquito bites
> 
> :)
> 
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