On 7/6/2015 8:18 AM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
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Ah, remidns me of his story of how, No, you can't tear down
grandpas lakeside cabin and rebuild. How ever, we can do a remodel,
which will, o course, require some foundation "repairs", and of course
bringing the rest up to code, in the course of fixing it...

There's a pond near here that was built out decades ago, before any
regs, and all the cabins/cottages are RIGHT ON the water. Bow there is
a 50' setback.

So when they wanted to replace one with a real house, they "remodeled"
so as to be grandfathered. The result was their leaving one 1-story
wall and building a new 2-story house around it. It was a "Are you
****tin' me?" sight.

Bob