In an effort to provide safer, affordable housing, Santa Cruz County Building and Planning Department just released a new program called the Safe Structures Program. This program lets property owners who have unpermitted housing structures work with County officials to add health, habitability, and safety features. In exchange, the County will consider certified structures as a low priority for future code enforcement actions: “limited immunity amnesty,” even if the structures are unable to meet current building code requirements.
Here are some of the advantages of the program: Lower (10 comments)