Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build
by skewart on Saturday April 16, 2016 @02:13PM
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Building inspections are to enforce building codes, not zoning. Building inspections and building codes are a very good thing. I don't think anyone in these comments is saying otherwise.
Zoning and building codes are two vastly different things. Zoning controls how buildings can be used, what types of new buildings can be built, and, in some cases buildings' overall shape and size. Building codes specify how buildings can be built, and what quality and safety standards the construction has to meet.
Like many other pro-housing-affordablity people, I believe we should massively relax zoning laws in most places (though not necessarily abolish them entirely). I do not think we should change building codes in any way.
Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build
by jessaustin on Saturday April 16, 2016 @01:44PM
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Actually, there are many reasons, some of which are good for home-purchasers. It might interest you to know that the inspection regimes of different municipalities vary drastically.
There's a reason we have housing inspections at so many steps in the building process.