2015 International Property Maintenance Code?
Austin, the only place I know that clear cut several acres of trees to install a solar farm.
You CANNOT fix retarded.
3/4 inch steel should keep the 2-legged roaches out
Crap like this is why I live in the country. Code? If you’re standing on my porch you’ve been on my property (and in my sights) for 120 yards.
I doubt that many folks who understand risks from mosquitoes are unwilling to install and maintain screens.
Austin: Lovely city, stupid people.
I’m surprised that you’d find many homes in the Austin area without window screens.
If you don’t have a/c then opening windows would be a norm I’d guess and without
screens insects would be a problem.
Screens here are in the neighborhood of $100 each. I have twelve windows. So, I would have to spend close to my tax bill to put screens on windows that I never, never open.
Typical Austin Fascists - notice where this idea came from -international standards they got from the 2015 International Property Maintenance Code
I believe that the People’s Republc of Boulder (CO) uses that same internationsl code.
Yes, they are that stupid, too.
Hopefully, CW-II will allow us to “process progressives” in the manner they very much deserve.
Austin is Berkeley with cow $hit! You have a state capitol with a university, what could be worse except to also have a gaggle of illegals and a Beaner Female “sheriff!”
Is this some way of Austin trying to reduce Zika and other pest-born diseases brought in by illegals, and treated at citizens’ cost when the illegals come into the ER for treatment?
Are there screen police?
The Left’s desire to control the lives of others never wavers.
The “experts” at helping insure “affordable” housing is not built.
Many municipal house codes should be no more than “recommended but not required” and many should be left to the insurance company of a homeowner’s insurance policy to require, or not.
The rest are nanny state busy bodies that while espousing to FORCE homes to be “better” often make them “BEST”, by legal mandate, when “good” and “better” are sufficient for many people when it comes to the cost.
The contracting trades get their mitts into a lot of this stuff, insuring the most expensive installations (their bread and butter) are “required” when lots of people would be safe, fine and comfortable left to what is easiest for them to afford.
There’s a City Of Austin questionnaire at the end of the article. They want your opinion about screens. No email address required but they do ask for your zipcode (works without it).
I answered the questionnaire and demanded screens ON everything upto and including the outhouse. I said I wanted them immediately.
Take it. They voted for this krap.
Been on this earth a long, long time and I’ve never heard of window screens being referred to as “insect” screens.
“It states homes with air conditioning would not be required to have insect screens...”
The typical summer day in Austin is 98-100 degrees and the the average home price is $350,000.00 and values are increasing 10-15% per year.
There are no homes in Austin the do not have air conditioning.
They're talking about making people have additional NEW screens on their windows that have apertures small enough to keep gnats out.