Liberty & Building Permits

[Sassy]

Just read a good article on Liberty & Building Permits you might find interesting...

[John Raabe]

Interesting article!

I am placing on the 2008 ballot a measure that would allow farmers and homeowners to do $35,000 in improvements to their property each year without a building permit.

The measure contains a few reasonable caveats. Electrical work must be signed off by a licensed electrical contractor, you can't add a second story to a house without a permit, and the new construction must be a legal distance from the property line.

This is the outline of a very reasonable "owner-builder" code exemption and much like one we had until recently on Whidbey Island. It was kicked out when we signed on to the new IRC at the state level.

[Amanda_931]

Nashville once had something very like that as well.