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Discusses potential impact that building codes may have on farmers hosting agritourism events and programs.

Examines 1980s code changes on Florida's Gulf Coast to determine how land market participants value building codes in high hazard areas. Research on vacant land price changes following changes in coastal building regulations on five barrier islands in Lee County suggests that the National Flood Insurance Program had a negative impact on land prices in the A-Zone (subjects to rising water) but not in the V-Zone (subject to wave action and rising water), which is seen as unsurprising, In addition, land prices decline in response to the establishment of the Coastal Building Zone, while a 30% drop in price is evidenced in sand beach parcels within the coastal construction control lines jurisdiction.

A game‐theoretic model of moral hazard associated with unobservable builder effort is postulated to examine the effectiveness of homeowner warranties and building code enforcement by local government in assuring desired builders' effort. Builders have an incentive to claim and charge for high unobservable effort level in constructing homes, but actually exert low effort to earn higher profits. We find that a homeowner warranty increases the unobservable effort of the builder, but cost minimizing behavior by the builder results in an effort choice less than the most efficient level. On the other hand, building code enforcement essentially converts unobservable builder effort to observable effort and efficient effort is indeed possible if enforcement cost is justifiable. However, an overly strict building code may be detrimental to buyers. The conditions under which a buyer would prefer one alternative over the other and where both measures can co‐exist are also examined. The model provides several interesting implications and testable hypotheses. A survey of builders and building codes provides preliminary evidence to support the proposed model.

Introduction -- How codes regulate buildings -- Development of building codes in the United States -- Development of model code provisions for existing buildings -- Development of code provisions for historic buildings -- Occupancy -- Planning and construction factors -- Principles of regulating existing buildings -- International existing building code compliance methods -- International existing building code -- prescriptive compliance method -- International existing building code-work area compliance method: repairs and alterations -- International existing building code-work area compliance method: special conditions -- International existing building code performance compliance method -- Summary of the compliance methodologies -- The legal basis for historic preservation regulations -- The rationale behind historic preservation regulations -- The IEBC and the secretary of the interior's standards

AbstractThis article is at once a guide to those drafting new ordinances and a means for checking up the adequacy of present codes.