[Cob] City Code Evasion Strategy Suggestions??

[Amanda Peck]

Not at all sure that "fear of codes" is not more debilitating than trying to 
comply with them.

Building small is good, but....

maybe not so small that you are forbidden to "live" in the building--with 
the threat that it will be demolished if you try--Mike Swink knows someone 
who ran into that--out in the middle of nowhere in rural Georgia.

If you have neighbors at least one of them WILL draw codes' attention, even 
if they didn't think that the casual conversation with the cousin whose 
husband works there counted.  I feuded with one set of neighbors in 
Nashville, and I think they had codes on their speed-dial.

There's currently a fairly lively new listserv on the subject of insurance 
in "alternative" "ecologically apropriate" "natural" building.  Suggestions 
range from "who cares, we built it, we can rebuild it!"  to "let's ditch the 
word "alternative" and see if we can find--make?--an insurer who can use 
some of the European data for historical houses" to some suggestions 
straight out of Jung.

Here, I have no problem getting insurance for my travel trailer.  But I 
don't think it came with insurance for people working on my land, and the 
insurance guy didn't seem to know how to do that.  Fire is one thing, yes, 
we could rebuild.  But not theft, or injury to a visitor.

My guess is that avoiding codes also avoids insurance.  Which might or might 
not be what you wanted.


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C.M. Hellwinckel writes:

I live within a large eastern cities limits and don't want to fight the
code system to approve a cob house.

so what is the best strategy to keep inquires away...that it is an art
project in progress...that it is an "out building/shed/barn".... that it
is an "off the grid house so therefore doesn't need inspecting???

Any folks out there have any suggestions?

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