I thought of that, but I’ll bet Amish homes tend to stay in Amish hands pretty much forever. Besides, anybody that wants to move in won’t get a mortgage on home that isn’t code-compliant, so anyone buying one is paying cash and probably knows what he’s buying. If even that’s not good enough, pass an ordinance that says title transfers will not be recorded without a notarized waiver from the buyer acknowledging the variances.
As long as we aren’t setting some kind of dangerous legal precedent, I have no problem with whatever the Amish want to build, even if they want to construct igloos in the middle of summer.
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The Mennonites here (Amish) build homes for poor people regardless of race/religion who get them at DEEP discounts, so yes, the Amish do build quite a few things for others. Just Food For Thought