Permitting a yurt

[HawaiiYurts]

Yes, I'd think Pacific could give you some tips about that area. And it may be more effective to figure out which counties do NOT accept them? But I'd expect Oregon and Washington would be pretty accepting of them as a rule...

I think a lot of areas don't have a hard and fast policy. Rural areas are often 'don't ask, don't tell'. Perhaps the thing to do would be to research and pick out ten areas you like for other reasons and then start calling the building departments of the areas. Then maybe we can update 'friendly zones' or 'unfriendly zones' on here. That would be useful in future industry efforts to clear yurts through the IBC as well.

I know that in Arizona, Colorado was successful in permitting after they addressed the insulation r-value codes and fire codes. I'm not sure if that's statewide. Here in Hawaii, we have been successful permitting on all islands except Oahu and Maui, but I haven't actually tried there yet because we haven't had a client that wants to permit there yet. I've heard they are 'anti', but I'm look forward to challenging it.