06-14-2013, 07:26 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Volcano, Big Island, Hawaii
Posts: 251
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Re: A Yurt War in Rural France
When I went to the first World Yurt Maker's Conference in France several years ago, I was the only representative of our unique, North American yurt designs. The North American yurt is very similar to the ancient design, but it is very different than those made throughout Europe and Asia in some key ways.
While many of the attendees of the conference at first were resistant to consider our yurts in their same scope because of our intense engineering and modern day materials, in the end most of them came to realize my main point: Modern codes will not ever allow for the ancient designs to be permitted as a modern day residence. They just don't fit their model. It sucks, but it's the facts.
When I started our yurt business here in Hawaii, it was one of my main founding principals: I did not want the county officials thinking that my aim was to skirt their laws. My aim was to meet their codes, and adapt the structures to comply. Yurts are amazing. They can even adapt in that way if you put in the effort. It's true that you can't expect special treatment just because you have different ideas. It's up to you to figure out a way through, not up to officials to bow gracefully out of the way. While that would be nice in some situations, they're just doing their jobs when they stand firm. Think outside the box! There's a way through.
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