Pole Barn with no permit

[jinjimbob]

A sanity check is needed on these large buildings though, to make sure they aren't going leave the ground and fly into your houses in the next storm.

 

[LBrown59]

A sanity check is needed on these large buildings though, to make sure they aren't going to leave the ground and fly into your houses in the next storm.

That big of a storm has probably already removed the house out of the path of the large building.

 

[LBrown59]

1* the whole process is a JOKE from what I have seen of it,
2*nothing but a money taking scam. Well that's my vent for the day!

1*one that's not funny.
2*rite on.

 

[LBrown59]

The permit process where I live has gone to the extreme... The city even has to approve the color and material in the Architectural Review when a building permit is issued and they can also require redesign of the exterior if a wall is too long. This applies to homes in modern, not historic neighborhoods.
Thinking about taking out a tree you planted or removing a dead one... think again. Can't do it without a permit unless it is a Eucalyptus. The permit process involves a public hearing and 6 weeks of posting legal notice throughout the neighborhood.
No point in owning a tractor in a place this.
You'ed never get around to using
Many of my neighbors let trees rot and fall over rather than going through the permit process. If it's any consolation, the city says once the a permit has been paid for and the City Arborist makes a cite visit and determines the tree in question is actually dead, the homeowner can file an application for a refund of the permit fees.

No point in owning a tractor in a place like this.
You'd never get around to using it due to always jumping through permit hoops.

 

[LBrown59]

When my parents were designing the house for their rural property, the engineer told them they don't need any permits. Apparently in our state, if a structure is more than 200m away from a boundary, then you can do what you want.

The only 2 things I have to do here is get a permit to install a culvert in the state highway ditch
&
obtain a permit for installing a septic system.
Other than that I can build anything I want anyway I want to build it on my property.
I can also put anything any where I want to on my land.

 

[marimus]

Betcha they had to pay for it to go out to them though... I just had.. or am in the process of having power run out to my rural farm property... I've paid the elec co. nearly 5k$ so far... go figure..

soundguy

You betcha, $27000 for the power company, and they had to clear the route marked themselves. I don't know what that cost, but they had a guy with a large excavator (tranlation trackhoe?) remove the trees, and leave a nice level area afterwards.

Or they could have built right at the front of the land, next to the highway like everyone else

 

[tallyho8]

Permit regulations are usually written by very well intentioned people for a very good purpose but are oftentimes misused or neglected.

Hurricane Gustav just passed through our area and did a fair amount of damage however, I have not seen any major structural damage to any of the homes built with building permits. In my block alone, there are at least 12 patio tops, decks, storage sheds, garages and barns built without permits that have been badly damaged or destroyed. These were cheaply built structures that never would have met the building codes. The owners purposely did not get permits because they would have been forced to build the buildings stronger, better and more expensively. Parts of these buildings blew into my yard and knocked down one of my trees. Luckily it missed my house.

The people who work in our permits department act like they are gods who must be completely obeyed and refuse to even tell you why when they reject your building plans. They tell you to check with an architect or engineer to see where you went wrong. It is easy to see why locals do not ever wish to get a permit with all the hoops they make you jump through but I just wish that they would build their structures to code so that every little storm does not make me worry about which of their buildings will damage my home.

 

[Soundguy]

You betcha, $27000 for the power company, and they had to clear the route marked themselves. I don't know what that cost, but they had a guy with a large excavator (tranlation trackhoe?) remove the trees, and leave a nice level area afterwards.

Or they could have built right at the front of the land, next to the highway like everyone else

I also had to clear the trees on my fenceline, and some of that 5k4 WAS/will be to clear some trees on a neighbors land that were too tall for me to get to.. ( they encroach / overhang ) my powerline ROW...

soundguy

 

[jinjimbob]

That big of a storm has probably already removed the house out of the path of the large building.

Maybe, but siding, roofing panels can kill people or cause damage.
If not only littering that people will not pick up.

There needs to be some common sense in building, and permits are originally created to stop people doing stupid things. . .. but they have just turned into another tax for the city governments.

 

[Soundguy]

building, and permits are originally created to stop people doing stupid things.

Yep.. and now they are just stupid, and stop people from doing things....

soundguy