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Question 17

Won’t builders just go build in the next jurisdiction over, where sprinklers aren’t required?

Not according to the evidence. The University of Alabama study tested exactly this on the North Carolina and South Carolina border, where the two states adopted different code editions at different times. Building volume in the border counties never shifted in step with a code adoption. Builders build where the lots and the buyers are.

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