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I was working with my uncle doing a two story addition to a house and they had a tree house. The owner asked if we could do some repairs and add-ons to the tree house while we were there. My uncle was very adamant about not touching it and explained to me what was going to be the likely cause if we did. I was floored and thought he was full of it when he said the inspector would make us bring it to code of which he knew it would never pass.
We didn't touch it and the inspector was very curious about its method of accent and its railing and such. My uncle just told the inspector that he had no idea about the tree house that we did nothing on it and it was already there when we started the work that he would have to take that up with the home owners.
I find it interesting that no matter how absurd government gets, there are liberals who will stand up and defend it. As libertarian writer Ari Armstrong said, a libertarian's reductio ad absurdum is a lib bureaucrat's logical consequence that must be fully adhered to and implemented.
I'm fighting my local township because they told me I cant put SOIL in my yard without a permit. Its becoming ridiculous in america when you cant even dump dirt in a yard without paying a tax to do so.
I'm dealing with FEMA, the EPA, County engineers office, Soul and water engineers, and local zoning regulations. TO PUT DIRT in my yard.
I hardly call a local zoning board 'big government'. Indeed, it is as low on the totem poll as one may get (assuming the members are elected).
The moral of the story: check the zoning regulations for your neighborhood before building such things.
But local zoning boards dont have carte blanc to write legislative laws. For example, in many states, the state constitutions limit townships from having laws stricter than the states and counties in which they reside, but that doesnt stop them from doing so. It takes a legal challenge to override such laws, and it gets even worse because one doesnt have legal grounds unless townships deny a waiver from the laws on the books.
Townships can keep illegal laws on the books and just grant permission to everyone who applies, collecting the "tax", i.e. application fee over and over again, and townships know this, but that doesnt make it right.
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