Martin O'Malley

Would be nice if energy savings and building green would filter down to the local govt level.

I have been 4 months trying to start to build a home with green principles

solar heat both home and water
water reclaimation
state of the art insulation
electricity demand supplemented by solar panels

And it seems that the building permit people are resisting every effort such as

denying insulation claims of efficiency demanding using additional fiberglass doubling insulation cost
wanting another septic put in when reclaimation reduces septic use by about 50%

I'm about to chuck the green project and buy a used singlewide and rent it out on the property.
It seems they won't want the additional property tax a site built home generrates.