California in general has a ridiculous set of regulations for doing anything related to building.
Individual counties are even worse (often requiring fighting with county-paid or city-paid arborists to remove trees on your own property, etc)
For giggles, read the story of PEX tubing and California. PEX has been used in Europe with no issues since the 60's.
For many years, California was the only state to ban PEX, for no reason.
After it's adoption into the 2006 UPC, california started to take steps to add it to the california codes.
This resulted in 3 environmental studies, two environmental impact reports, 2 lawsuits against California for trying to adopt it, and 5 years of work.
California in general has a ridiculous set of regulations for doing anything related to building.
Individual counties are even worse (often requiring fighting with county-paid or city-paid arborists to remove trees on your own property, etc)
For giggles, read the story of PEX tubing and California. PEX has been used in Europe with no issues since the 60's. For many years, California was the only state to ban PEX, for no reason.
After it's adoption into the 2006 UPC, california started to take steps to add it to the california codes.
This resulted in 3 environmental studies, two environmental impact reports, 2 lawsuits against California for trying to adopt it, and 5 years of work.
http://www.bsc.ca.gov/Home/New/PEX.aspx
This covers only the post-2009 part of the saga.