If you read the Class K stuff, you will see it applies to homes on at least one acre. Yes, you still must comply with electrical and sanitation codes. It is a good common sense approach to the right of someone to provide their own shelter. A far better solution than making folks live under bridges if they have a piece of land but not enough money to build what houses have become these days.
I re-read the link more thoroughly, and it's interesting. It almost sounds like a way for California to collect fees without having to do the work. A good way to cut the expenditure of time, manpower, and money; but not revenue, especially on the new construction front.
Scientific facts, or hypotheses, there is, in the geological record, reason to believe that the terrestrial poles have occupied diverse points on the globe, suggesting that at least the crust was in widely varied planes of rotation, around these diverse points. Whether the incline to the ecliptic was much different or not, is not so easily deduced. One such likely position of the rotational axis is the area of Lake Chad. More than simple 180 degree geomagnetic reversals seem to have happened at some time in the past. When we look back, we are left to guess what things mean. Whichever analysis is in vogue at any one time is usually held for about a generation past the time when any error is first brought to light. Such is the inertia of the academe.
Here is an interesting article on "Super-continent Cycles" that makes more sense than geographic poles shifting wildly, especially after the the early Earth settled into a stable orbit.
Supercontinent cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
