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scattered on the ground last night I had the strangest dream I ever had before. I dreamed the world. Canyon is a modern anachronism Just 10 minutes from the housing developments in Moraga. The people here live sandwiched between redwoods and waterfalls, five minutes away. People in Morocco

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also live sandwiched between telephone poles and lampposts. And that say the people who live here is precisely why they intend on staying. Mm hmm. That's when I say we did. I know that you will. Mm hmm. Yeah. Okay.

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Mhm. We might be, yes, that's good. By the way. That's right. Mm hmm. Life in Canyon is, well, I'm completely involved in uh and my friends here and my community here and the ecology here. The water table here. This, I

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consider this like my home in my life and I need a plan to move nor let them alter this home in this life. Mm hmm. Well, this tower was built without a permit uh largely because uh entirely because permit wasn't issued for the building permits have

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been consistently refused. Canyon homeowners and residents for any kind of structure for the initiation of a structure for the addition to a structure. Um, there have been countless applications for permits made by the residents, john Adams who built this tower applied for a permit and the

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permit was denied and he wasn't the man who likes to spend his time in court. He's a carpenter and he likes to build. So he built without a permit and there's a possibility that this house may be condemned because of that. Well now, how are you

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going to answer that possibility? Well I uh I expect to uh spend the rest of my life in this house. I've done all the traveling I plan to do. And uh the only way they're getting me out of this house is feet first. Mhm.

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Well we built it according to code, we purchased the various code books that the county has and we're using mostly wood will probably use some stucco in the finished product. But what you see here is just a shell. We'll put um resin on the outside with

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redwood shakes and then uh insulation and other redwood on the inside. But it'll be mostly wood. This is plywood and bolts and the deck is two by six and uh the girders enjoys are all two by eights and two by tens. And then with the beams

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eventually form eight by 10 beams. So it's all very very sturdy and very very much up to code. You sound very well versed in construction. How would you compare the finished product that you hope to have with a with a home Farther down in the valley

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or a tract home or whatever. Well so far we spent I can just, you know Dubai cost so far we spent about $2,000 in materials and we'll probably spend another 8000. That's not including labor which we do ourselves and with the help of friends. So eventually

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I think we'll come up with a finished product of about $25,000 in cost. The strange history never had before. Mhm.