To the editor: We’re putting in a manufactured residence on our property in Malibu that burned within the 2018 Woolsey fireplace. Whereas I strongly consider that manufactured properties with good designs are the best way to rebuild after a hearth, native businesses must assume exterior the field about streamlining the method. (“People used to buy homes through catalogs. Could that idea help Altadena?” Feb. 18)
Why not have pre-approved foundations for the manufactured properties? For soil-sample necessities, why not have a cost-efficient and streamlined course of to get that completed?
If the hearth company chargeable for Altadena has particular necessities, it ought to have ample staffing and up to date procedures to help residents. For instance, why require the home-owner to acquire water strain knowledge to placed on a kind to be submitted to the hearth division? Shouldn’t the hearth division have that data?
Additionally, the utilities must be available to attach the brand new buildings to providers. And by the best way, this might be the time to place all utilities underground.
Manufactured properties are an amazing instrument for rebuilding shortly, however there should even be a direct rethinking of our antiquated constructing forms.
Cynthia Kesselman, Malibu
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To the editor: Kudos to the Foothill Catalog Basis for developing with the idea of rebuilding Altadena with home kits much like these supplied a long time in the past by Sears.
I’d be prepared to wager the Craftsman bungalow the place I dwell in Lengthy Seaside was a equipment home. Its flooring plan mirrors these of different homes in our neighborhood. Every takes on the character of its house owners, but their similarities give the neighborhood a historic appeal.
And the truth that a equipment would significantly cut back the price to rebuild? Why not use this selection? Work out fire-resistant supplies for these homes, and also you’ve acquired a winner.
Betsy Rothstein, Lengthy Seaside
