Get that Primative School up to code OR ELSE!

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

Typical politician response to not getting credit for doing nothing.  They just don't get the concept of DIY because they have likely never don anything.

Alan


A self-styled 'Mountain Man' who left modern conveniences for the backwoods of North Carolina decades ago is butting heads with local officials who say his forest compound isn’t up to code – and he may have television to blame.
Eustace Conway, who owns and operates a school that teaches hundreds of people how to live closer to nature, received a cease and desist letter from county officials who say his buildings don't meet code.
"Basically I'm living like the American heritage pattern of all our ancestors and the modern world isn't, and they don't know how to accept me," said Conway.
But Conway says the county has inspected the property before and told him everything was fine. Some believe the county only took notice after Conway appeared on the History Channel's "Mountain Men."

"This is supposed to be the land of the free. Government is supposed to help people."- Eustace Conway
Everything in Conway's Turtle Island Preserve is organic and made from nature. The preserve's website notes the property's buildings are "carved literally from the wilderness."
But the naturalness of the property is precisely what has sparked county officials to take notice. Officials say unless Conway can meet building codes and safety regulations, the camp and school will be closed.
"If we complied to everything the county is requesting, we would cease to exist as we are," one Turtle Island staffer said. "We are inherently primitive."
The county says it is just looking to fulfill its duty to protect public health and safety.
"The primary concern of the county is that these visitors are in and out of these buildings which were neither permitted nor inspected for compliance with the NC building code," said the Watauga County Planning and Inspections Department.
"This is supposed to be the land of the free. Government is supposed to help people, protect their individual liberties and freedom -- that's not what's happening here," said Conway.
Conway says he plans to fight to keep his nature school the way it was built.
"I'm not confident I can win it. I'm confident I ought to win it," said Conway. "This is something I spent this much of my life, I don't have much left."Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/28/mountain-man-fights-local-government-to-keep-nature-school-natural/?test=latestnews#ixzz2MFc1wi5G

[KansasPaul]

This feels too much like the local government WANTS the property owners to leave - force them out through regulation. Cant' make the dwellings meet code?  Time for you to leave...... 

It's too bad that 'officials' can't recognize the benefit for others to view a true primitive camp.

Blessings

Paul

[blind ear]

The PTB are trying to instill a "real estate agent" mentality in the whole world. That entity should be made illegal, real estate licence requirements that is. ear

[Ranger99]

if you can learn to live independently
without a lot of modern (read bought)
items, you won't be spending all your
money and thus losing dependence on
government infrastructure.


hmmmmm. . . . . . .

[Lloyd Smale]

he seems like an idiot anyway. Chewed a guy out for taking one of his rifles that missed a deer for not sighting it in first. Who keeps guns that arent sighted in and hands them out for hunting? He also for an entire season was crying because his taxes were due and he couldnt afford them and they were going to take his land. How much do you think those tv guys were paying him;) Looks to me like hes nothing but some idiot that wants to be on tv like those stupid prepper shows. Id bet theres alot more to this then meets the eye. Bottom line is i cant build a home or buisness unless its to code. those codes are put there to make sure that im safe. the others in the building are safe and then if i sell it the new owners are safe. Why shouldnt he have to abide by them just like everyone else.