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<br />ROO-IO <br /> <br />Professor Peter J. May <br />Po]itical Science Box 353530 <br />University of Washington <br />Seattle, W A 98195 <br />tel: (206) 543-2780; fax: (206) 685-2146 <br />email: pmay@u.washington.edu <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Compliance with Building Code Provisions: <br /> <br />Decision-Making for Residential Construction <br /> <br />Shortfalls in building-code enforcement and compliance have been cited repeatedly as <br />obstacles in reducing losses oflives and property from natural disasters. The conventional <br />responses call for stronger code enforcement by local authorities and for improved building <br />codes. This research shifts attention from framing the problem as one of increasing enforcement <br />to framing it as on" of obtaining compliance. The central policy question is how compliance can <br />be improved in the absence of strong enforcement. <br /> <br />The session will provide findings from a on-going study of residential homebuilders in <br />western Washington. These contribute to development of insights about ways to improve <br />"voluntary" compliance with code provisions. A second contribution is to the to the literature <br />concerning regulatory enforcement and compliance. Related findings from recent research for <br />which] have collaborated concerning regulatory enforcement and compliance are reported in: <br /> <br />"Reconsidering Styles of Regulatory Enforcement: Patterns in Danish Agro- <br />Environmental Inspection," Law and Policy 22 (April 2000): 143-173. Peter J. May <br />and S0ren Winter. <br /> <br />"Regulatory Backwaters: Earthquake Risk Reduction in the Western United States," <br />State and Local Governmental Review, 32 (Winter 2000): 20-33. Peter J. May and T. <br />Jens Feeley. <br /> <br />"Code Enforcement Burdens and Central City Decline," Journal of the American <br />Planning Association, 66 (Spring 2000): 143-161. Raymond J. Burby, Peter J. May, <br />Emil Malizia, and Joyce Levine. <br /> <br />"Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance: Examining Danish Agro-Environmental <br />Policy," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 18 (Fall ] 999): 625-651. Peter J. <br />May and S0I'en Winter. <br /> <br />"Making Building Codes an Eftective Tool for Earthquake Hazard Mitigation," <br />Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions, 1 (June 1999): 27-37, <br />Raymond J. Burby and Peter J. May. <br /> <br />"]mproving Compliance with Regulations: Choices and Outcomes for Local <br />Government," Journal of the American Planning Association. 64 (Summer 1998): <br />324-334; Raymond J, Burby, Peter J. May, and Robert Paterson. <br /> <br />"Making Sense Out of Regulatory Enforcement," Law and Policy 19 (April 1998): <br />157-]82. Peter J. May and Raymond J. Burby. <br /> <br />Funding for different aspects of this research program has been provided by the National <br />Science Foundation, the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, and the Danish <br />Environmental Research Program. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />