Bob Engelhardt on Mon, 06 Jul 2015
10:29:44 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
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.

Very believable. St Andrew House on the Hood Canal has a house
out over the canal - again, "Grand fathered in".
And the Manse where I was a baby, in 1973 had the garage rebuilt -
and they too had to leave one wall up lest it be subject to the newer
setback rules (If it wasn't on the property line, it was very very
close.).

Bob
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pyotr filipivich
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