I have two points to make.

1) Whereas the objective of the tiny house provisions are to make housing more affordable, a 400 sf house at $100.00/sf is still out of the range of many. I suggest that Virginia also have a provision for Tiny house with the following limitations.

200sf max for this option.

Ceiling height limited to 8ft.

Heat pump is not required.

Resistance heating is allowed.

Arc-fault breakers not required. Is there any evidence that arcs cause fires, and not just the result of a fire?

1. 1. 2. Whereas manual J calculations are required by the code. Manual J is not available to the public. Please make this available.

Thank you for making the code available in a from that can be searched and copied. Virginia is one of only 5 states to do so.

Submitted by Albert Pollard Sr, retired builder.