Tim Challenger

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:34:50 +0200, B Vaughan wrote:

    > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:36:46 +0200, Tim Challenger
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >>On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:48:55 -0500, jenn wrote:
    >>>> When did the Italian authorities ever worry about things like building
    >>>> regulations?
    >>>>
    >>> Italy is notorious for building regulation enforcement -- you can't
    >>> even add a window or change bathroom fixtures without elaborate time
    >>> consuming paperwork - and it is likely to not be approved even with that
    >>I was thinking more on the lines of the Alpine villages that are now under
    >>20 feet of hard mud many due to the selective application of regulations
    >>relating to building in danger zones. At least as was reported at the time.
    >
    > Once upon a time there were no such things as zoning regulations.

A long time ago, but they weren't all old houses.

    > More often the cause of mud slides is a drastic change in the type of
    > vegetation uphill.

True. Plus the Italian love of concreting over as much of the land as
possible. I read somewhere in a report of the landslides a few years ago
that Italy has the highest proportion of *sealed* land area in relation to
something or other (the details are pretty hazy now).

--
Tim C.