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location, location and .. location. These overview numbers are as real as having 2.5 children! Here in the San Francisco Bay Area -- poster child for terrible o
by mistrial9 4y ago
location, location and .. location. These overview numbers are as real as having 2.5 children! Here in the San Francisco Bay Area -- poster child for terrible outcomes in housing -- nothing stated above rings true. The whole State is gridlocked in anti-building systems. specific example: when a massive 2017 fire burned more than 3200 homes in the Santa Rosa area, more than a billion dollars eventually was paid out in settlements, yet now five years later, less than two thousand homes have been rebuilt. Is that due to more than a third of the all owners choosing that? hardly likely..
- ggm 4y agoBad example. Australia is even more fire prone. The planning rules which say "sorry you can't build here now" have a solid scientific basis. Building fire resilient is hugely more expensive and not building to code is stupid. I get that there's a lot of anger about Californian building regs but post fire lower build back levels isn't the peg to hang this on.
- mistrial9 4y ago> but post fire lower build back levels wrong Sir, but only in this way -- there are more sq km in California than in plenty of entire countries (not AU). The regulations you refer to are the "Wildland-Urban Interface" which is Federally mandated .. Santa Rosa is a relatively settled place and (mostly) not in that so-called WUI. On the other hand, Australia does indeed bear some resemblance to California in places due to drought and also, the flammable Blue Gum, here called Eucalyptus Tree. The answers here are multi-layered.
- jmalicki 4y agoWhat you say is literally true - most of Santa Rosa is not WUI, but a significant proportion is: https://www.srcity.org/DocumentCenter/View/25294/CWPP-WUI-Map https://www.srcity.org/DocumentCenter/View/25294/CWPP-WUI-Ma...
- former 4y ago