Comments about ‘Town casts wary eye on yurts’

I find it interesting that when someone finds a perfectly wonderful way to live that uses less energy, is simpler, and is has less impact ultimately on America's foriegn policy and security they call it a "step backward". In many ways our modern lifestyle is as backward as you can get if you grade it on sustainability, economic health, security, and environmental impact. Not everyone needs giant TV's and such, some just want to live a simpler, more family oriented approach. I don't blame them at all, way to go guys!

Harrah for you and stay in there. My husband and I raised 14 children up in the mountains in Hawaii, not far from Laie, Oahu.....and for 10 years without electric power....our house was "temporary" and then we made electric power (4K) from the stream. It was NOT POPULAR with downtown Honolulu and codes and all that "stuff". We could never get a building permit....because they didn't want us to get one. Many lands in Hawaii could be used like we did, but it would take away the "water" so to keep their water "banking"............permits never were granted. We lived there for 17 years. We eventually became surrounded by Marijuana growers big time and left. keep at your project and build a "green" round house like your yurt. It's wonderful to raise your family like you are. aloha, from Irene in Nauvoo, Illinois.

It's pretty easy to see that the interests of greedy land owners and evil, powerful politicians/developers is what is at work here. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. They know full that a yurt will not meet building codes and that is their evil way of guaranteeing their monopoly will persist while they pretend their interest is in your health and safety. And as the others said above, it's simply ridiculous not to allow greener forms of housing. Better make sure to get to the ballots and get these people out of office!

The majority of Utahns are Republicans who according to their platform are against Government medeling in personal lives. From this springs their platform for smaller Government. Having lived in Utah all my life I find it interesting that those republicans wave their flag of less Government but run to the The Government for more regulation when they don't agree with the way someone lives.

If you want to live in a tent on your own land that should be nobody's business but your own. It's quite all right for others not to like it. Why do people feel they need to intrude on that? What makes people assume the Yurts aren't sanitary? If current codes require running water and flushing toilets maybe they need to be reevised to include compostable toilets which are more sanitary and better for the environment than flushing toilets and septic tanks.

Who is doing something to revise building codes? Will you wait for someone else to do it or will you be the first to say the Emporer has no clothes?