NO NEW CODES! Please sign the Petition

For the last several months, Rusdon Ray, a local draftsman and home designer, has been meeting with Gilbert Town management to talk about the new International Code Council’s (ICC) 2012 Construction Codes.  Rusdon has been joined by other professionals in the construction industry, as well as Gilbert citizens.  They do NOT believe it is in the best interest of Gilbert families for the Gilbert Town Council to pass these thousands of pages of codes into law.  Doing so also violates private property rights and the free market economy.   
Both Cory Carpenter and Rusdon have written articles about why the codes should not be passed into law.  Their group has also initiated a Petition, which you can find on their website nonewcodes.com.   You can go here to No New Codes for more information. 
Please sign the Petition
For more detailed information, here are some relevant articles: You Are Forbidden in Gilbert, ICC 2012 International Building Codes 5/1/2013 Meeting Review, ICC 2012 International Residential Code – Law in Gilbert?, You Don’t Own Me:  Theme Song of the Free Market,  Quest for Excellence – Best Done through Mandates or Personal Choice? , Maricopa County is Considering Passing 2012 International Codes – Don’t Call Me Honey.

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Building Codes Could Restrict Freedom

Cory Carpenter recently published an Opinion piece in the Arizona Republic titled Building Codes Could Restrict Freedom.  Please read it and comment.   In that article, he explains how the proliferation of construction, building, energy, and all kinds of other "codes" coming from the International Code Council in Washington, DC, have become so onerous, we are losing our basic freedoms.  
Gilbert Watch has published several articles relating to the Gilbert battle against these codes, headed by local draftsman and home designer, Rusdon Ray.
The issue isn’t, "Are the codes sound"?  Most, not all, are technically sound.  Many codes provide wonderful, new techniques for energy efficiency.  That isn’t the point.  The point is, "Why are town and city Councils across America turning them into LAWS?"   Why are they being shoved down the throats of American tradesmen and citizens?  
Town and city management routinely present these code "updates" to town and city Councils, recommending they be made law.  Shouldn’t the "burden of proof" for why a code should be a law be on the shoulders of government employees to prove?   
Haven’t we had enough federal domination and intrusion into our lives?  

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“Gilbert Sticks a Branding Iron in our Eye”

Enter the name Rusdon Ray in the Gilbert Watch search box, and you will see about 10 articles devoted to why the Gilbert Town Council should NOT pass 1,000 new "code updates" on the construction industry, and on Gilbert families.   You will see evidence of the herculean efforts made by Rusdon, industry professionals, tradesmen, and private citizens on why these codes are mostly irrelevant to life/safety issues.   Rusdon and his team are unpaid volunteers fighting for individual liberty and the free market. 
Gilbert’s Town Management is urging the Council to pass the latest ICC (International Code Council) codes into law.   For the last 10 years, towns and cities are passing these types of codes into law in lockstep all across America.   
It is the proliferation of government regulations on steroids, at the local level.    
Here is my question to each Gilbert Town Council member:
 

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