The square footage requirements are something I just don't understand the need for. I had a tiny studio apartment in Chicago that wasn't even 400 sq ft, that was fine. But if you buy land and want to do that, its not allowed for "safety" reasons, which I don't understand. Frustrating.
Sorry you weren't able to do what you wanted in your area. Not many areas left where you can. That's cool you found an alternative that you're happy with. Few can just pick up and move to somewhere that allows this stuff, gotta be creative.
Yup for sure.
Yeah that is the weird part with sq. ft. requirements, our house we bought would totally not be allowed to build now, but because it already existed, it's good. Whatever...
the square footage requirement of is a form of a caste system in this country, by controlling the square footage of a building, you can control the income levels in an area, therefore their school systems grocery stores and so on are populated with people of certain income levels so the become in all senses a different class of society.
@bdl1165 I believe you are right. Seems like a lot of the codes I've come across are mostly designed to keep poor people out. I can understand sanitation and fire hazard and health codes, but they go way past that to control what kind of people can live where. Thanks for commenting.
i have thought about it for years, why are some areas of cities destitute and why is poverty so rampant in those areas, i dont think anybody would expose their families willingly to these neighborhoods so if that is the case they how and why do they end up there, the schools are sub par , the grocery stores and so on, their is no chance for them to migrate upward through contacts, so they in turn create their own caste with its own rules ,language , dress code . it s very odd to me to realize that this may not be a mistake or just an occurence but more of a social engineering phenomenon that nobody ever really looked at.