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Posted by Franz [209.86.226.32] on Friday, October 12, 2012 at 01:16:54 :
In Reply to: Small town, small minded bureaucrat posted by Tim Holloway [69.54.28.229] on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 19:00:24 :
Here I sit surrounded on 3 sides by Forever Wild government owned jungle in the land of the $600 building Permit where 12 x 12 single story only sheds are allowed.
We got regualtions, rules and satellite pictures and dwarfs with photo ID. Now I always figured no politician ever made a rule he didn't leave himself a loophole in, so I did a little looking, and a lot of reading.
Every State has an Office of Real Property Services, they tell towns, cities and villages how to do assessment primarily, and in NY publish the Top Secret Assessor's manual which ain't top secret any more since ORPS put up a web page. Cheaper than paper copies don't ya know, and nobody will read it.
Damned if that manual and Opinions of Council didn't define exactly what was necessary to be a building requiring Zoning and Permit, and pays TAX! I might mention I'm cheap and hate paying tax so some lardo can get more welfare.
Since I had a large pile of square guardrail and a truckload of shipping skids for huge Xerox machines, I went about welding up a frame, standing skids on top of the frame and bolting the skids to the frame. Then I put a metal thing some might call a tin roof on top and made a sliding door. Darned if it didn't turn out looking almost like a shed.
I put some temporary lights inside, both 120 and 12 volt LED, ran the cord out the door and hung some damn heavy fiberglass fabric on the outside verticals some might call walls.
I was real happy with NotA 1.0 and so were the mowers and machines I put inside.
About a year later up shows Mr Assessor to tell me his sad tale. I had no permit and he'd have to cite me for Zoning as well, and best thing I should do is rip it down and get it gone. Being good at looking stupid, I just did so and asked what. He said "the building" and pointed.
I told him it wasn't a building, it was just a big box. Little back and forth I stuck a JoBar under the corner and proved it was easily movable. He asked could he look inside. Help yourself. He said it was dark, were there lights? I said sure, just let me plug the cord in so they come on. He went a little purple and looked like he swallowed a turd. I stayed looking stupid.
I also told him I'd read the manual he had to work from, and that box was
1, easily movable
2, not anchored to the ground
3, not permanently connected to gas water or electric
and most important, NONE of his business.
There are now 5 NotA buildings on my property & #6 will be built using overhead doors for walls.
The Town decided it's best to leave me alone because they damn sure don't want me telling people how to gain 1 or 2 cars on their garage without kissing politician butt, according to my buds at Town Hall.
They get to make & enforce the rules, I just read em and use em to my advantage.
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