In one typical exchange, a builders association staff member, Cliff Isaac, emailed the bill's House of Representatives ... Young puts it this way: Building on steep slopes is a bad idea.

She believes the solution is better building standards, specifically stricter codes about building in flood plains and along steep slopes ... to have to build these houses higher,” she said.

When Mo purchased the newly constructed home for $750,000 in 2010, she hadn’t met Trobisch. She liked the three-bedroom, ...

His house, built on a steep slope surrounded by three mountain ranges, is constructed using cob, a natural building material typically made from a mixture of clay, sand, straw, and water.