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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Building codes
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:53:20 -0800 (PST)

Rob, I'm curious. If you don't apply for a permit, of any kind, and just
build; what lets the inspector know that you are building in the first place,
and what gives him permission to step foot on your property to inspect?
Un;ess you are exposed to the road, wouldn't it be your private business?

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--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Building codes
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 5:48 PM
> > One of the several advantages of buying land in a poor
> area is there
> > is antipathy toward government, which is rightly seen
> as adding a
> > layer of financial expense onto hardscrabble living.
> Thus, the
> > condition in Ozark County that, while there is a state
> code, there are
> > no funds available for enforcement. We will not tax
> ourselves to
> > enforce what we don't want.
> >
>
> While I agree with you on the building codes, the
> enforcement angle
> has not been the case here in very poor Southside Virginia.
> The
> building inspector is active. I have learned that just
> going ahead and
> doing what I'm going to do usually works. And to his
> credit, he admits
> that the county just wants to get the permits completed so
> that they
> can up property values.
>
> I purposely went slow and did not complete my addition last
> year so
> that they county could not raise the taxes for 2008. They
> outsmarted
> me. They upped the taxes based on the addition being 40%
> complete :>)
> I'm half a mind to drag it out and see how many years I
> can take to
> get to 100%.
>
> Rob - Va
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