Employees atop a constructing broken by Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers Seaside, Fla., Oct. 9.
Photograph:
Jay Reeves/Related Press
There may be an neglected concern regarding Florida’s strict development codes and rebuilding necessities: Manufactured housing equivalent to modular properties are by and enormous exempt from Florida’s constructing codes (“Housing Codes Reshape Florida,” Web page One, Oct. 18). As an alternative, these constructions are regulated by the federal authorities. Thus, these cheap properties will simply get replaced, and we are going to proceed to have disasters wherein poorly constructed, manufactured properties get destroyed by hurricanes.
To make issues worse, cellular properties are regulated by Florida statutes, the Code of Federal Laws, the U.S. Division of Housing, Florida Administrative Code and the Florida Division of Freeway Security and Motor Autos. If Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Biden had been critical about addressing hurricane harm, they’d change the out-of-date laws.
Dean Oestreich
Estero, Fla.
It amazes me how builders are so reluctant to depart from their preconceived methods wherein to construct in a hurricane zone. In Florida, you don’t want a gable roof with issues like shingles that may fly off. There’s no snow there. A easy constructing on the seaside is one which’s raised not less than 10 ft off grade, has exterior partitions of concrete blocks or stable concrete and a flat roof with a thick rubber membrane.
The perfect form is a dome, which lets the wind go round it, however that is most likely past the scope of householders’ image of what a house ought to appear like. Tinkering with constructing codes isn’t the reply. Sensible development is.
Paul Sedan
San Francisco
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