HouseAlive (strawbale advocate,
Cob building, natural building, natural design &
appropriate technology) advocates hiding behind mobile homes and building your cob dream out of sight and code police.
The idea being to setup as many of these as you need and then knock out the floors and put in the structure (poles) and natural flooring, next clean out the walls from the inside and loose the paneling, insulation and any other non-natural material, then replace with cob and/or strawbale. Leave siding outside so no one's the wiser. Keep going this way, loosing anything old, rotten or toxic and building new/natural on the inside, while recycling anything you can such as wiring, fixtures, sinks, etc.
It's not exactly what your asking for, but it is a great way to green up these old dinosaurs - using a doable, one step at a time method.
Wouldn't a
video blog of a
project like this be super!