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Question: What village or towns would you suggest (North vs. South Shore) to put a tiny house for my mother and one for myself with shared amenities like a pool, tennis court, and fire pit?
Question: What village or towns would you suggest (North vs. South Shore) to put a tiny house for my mother and one for myself with shared amenities like a pool, tennis court, and fire pit?
Such a broad question! Long Island is almost the size of the State of Rhode Island so you really have to narrow it down.
You have to provide more details like will you be working in the city? How much money do you want to spend? And when you say "put" a house - do you mean build a new house? Or do you want to buy an existing house? If you are going to work in the city then you are really tied more to Nassau and western Suffolk.
If hopefully you are not going to be tied to the city then your options greatly expand to more of the Island. You might want a community that offers things like a pool and tennis court. There are a couple of town house and condo developments that offer those things.
Question: What village or towns would you suggest (North vs. South Shore) to put a tiny house for my mother and one for myself with shared amenities like a pool, tennis court, and fire pit?
Almost nowhere on long island would you be permitted to place two dwellings on the same lot. In most places tiny houses would not meet the minimum size requirements for a residence. And finally, many aspects of a tiny house will not meet the standards of the building code.
Don't think Billy Joel said it well at all. Never have. I think Joel sufferes from "Shore Envy."
Early in his career he fabricated a North Shore youth. I guess "Hicksville" doesn't sound good in a song.
It's interesting to see him split hairs over what towns are "North Shore" and which are not. Saw him do this with both Syosset and Comack. The thing is south Hicksville, the "A"section that borders on Levittown, is a far cry from Syosset - or even Jericho.
He's a real shore snob. Actually, I think he has shore issues.
more common than you think. LI psychiatric sub specialty- "shore issues" There's a lot of that on LI.
I think he does live on the North Shore - or he did recently.
But he still puts it down.
The bigger issue isn't shore envy, it's a hatred of NYC and turning into Queens.
Question: What village or towns would you suggest (North vs. South Shore) to put a tiny house for my mother and one for myself with shared amenities like a pool, tennis court, and fire pit?
Almost nowhere on long island would you be permitted to place two dwellings on the same lot. In most places tiny houses would not meet the minimum size requirements for a residence. And finally, many aspects of a tiny house will not meet the standards of the building code.
The towns will wake up...they can tax twice on the same lot!
The towns will wake up...they can tax twice on the same lot!
Good idea, throw out all zoning regulations. You could have a house and a McDonalds on the same lot. Your next door neighbor can move his auto dismantling business to his back yard. The guy on the other side could put a steel mill in his. Maybe they'd even build an overhead rail system to move the scrap across your property to expedite the process.
The hundreds of people in the highrises across the street might get annoyed though.
Good idea, throw out all zoning regulations. You could have a house and a McDonalds on the same lot. Your next door neighbor can move his auto dismantling business to his back yard. The guy on the other side could put a steel mill in his. Maybe they'd even build an overhead rail system to move the scrap across your property to expedite the process.
The hundreds of people in the highrises across the street might get annoyed though.
You keep mentioning auto dismantling business in someones back yard. Do you live next door to someone who does that? Just curious.
You keep mentioning auto dismantling business in someones back yard. Do you live next door to someone who does that? Just curious.
No, I don't but that's what can happen when there are no zoning laws. The same zoning laws that many here complain about as some sort of infringement on their "right" to do whatever they want regardless of the effect it has on anyone else.
People commute to the city from the Poconos and further, you guys thinking Hicksville is a slog don’t know how good you have it.
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