Thank you Glenn for all your research on the subject. I saw your video a few years ago and agree with you but I still need to inforce using the hold-down tension devices. It makes me wonder how many requirements in the code were really tested and researched or just made up.
PA took out the over 20 pages of braced wall design because they said there was no proof of a house in PA of ever having damage because it lacked wall bracing. (I don't mind, it looks too complicated anyway) And also the housing industry has a lot of political power. But that is another story and left us with a hodgepodge of a code from 3 different editions of the IRC put together, and some things made up without a PA edition of the IRC to put it all together in one book.
What ticks me off is when there is no consistency of terms. There shouldn't be many words that mean the same thing. If a porch, deck, landing, category 1 sunroom is the same thing then it should have the same name with a definition. I think balcony is treated different but still no definition..