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In this op/ed on DesMoinesRegister.com, a reader writes in about the Iowa Home Builders Association's opposition to residential fire sprinkler mandates in the new housing code. "Do they attach so little value to what they build that they wouldn't try to build in devices to protect it?" he writes. Read the op/ed.
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01/11/2010
Op/ed: Mandate makes sense for home sprinklers
Posted by Mike Hazell on 01/11/2010 at 02:03 PM in Advocacy, Legislation | Permalink
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