California Assemblyman Proposes Building Standards that Promote Feng Shui

When California State Assemblyman Leland Y. Yee recently proposed a resolution urging the California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) to adopt building standards that promote Feng Shui – a Chinese practice in which a structure or site is chosen or configured so as to harmonize with the spiritual forces that inhabit it – in the California Building Standards Code, his office didn’t even think interest in the resolution warranted a simple press release. The fact that the resolution has spawned a controversy, garnering press coverage as far away as South Africa and Australia, proves just how provocative this 4,000-year-old design method is.