Any yurts that met code in NYS?

[Matt J]

We're looking to live in a yurt in upstate New York and are struggling to get it to meet building code. We'll have access to septic and electricity. Our main issue is meeting the energy efficiency standards since the yurt we want (a 21-foot Yurta) wouldn't meet the requirements (R-25 wall and R-49 ceiling). But our code enforcer said there may be other ways to meet the energy code requirements (e.g., an engineering study that addresses its total energy consumption) and said it would be helpful if we were able to find anyone else who has gotten a yurt approved as a permanent residential dwelling in the past 3 years - we could then pursue a similar code path to what they did.

So has anyone been able to get their yurt to be approved as a permanent residential dwelling in NYS within the past 3 years? (I ask about the past 3 years because apparently there were big changes to energy code in NYS in 2017.)

Thanks everyone!
Matt