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MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yes… Because telling my mom she has to pay the county thousands for a new garden shed, wood shed and chicken coop in her backyard (15 acres btw) is really preventing catastrophe for the neighbors that are literally miles away.

If the regulations can’t be written or upheld in a way that allows for property owners to do their own things on their land then they need to be written in a different way or given exception clauses which they currently do not have.

Not everyone lives in a suburb where they can see what their neighbors are cooking for dinner every night. If your property is booty cheek to booty cheek with the neighbors house then sure I can see where you’re coming from, but a lot of people have a lot of land far away from others and they are told they can’t do x in the middle of nowhere without paying the government some bullshit fee or they are outright denied.

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bufalo1973@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Who builds those sheds? Does that person know what s/he does? Are those sheds build with the right material? Can it withstand fire? Is there enough safety to use them or are they death traps?

I can go on but I think you understand the point.

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LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You don’t own your land like that, you basically rent it from the government for the price of property taxes, and because you do it that way, you get better protections and deals and things you can do for your “ownership” than a typical tenant.

Whatever you put in the ground, including mercury for gold mining, has broad impacts and we should indeed regulate that for everyone. No one wants mercury in their well water.

Idk what’s going on with your mom/her county, but usually structures like that just mean the property isn’t able to get financing. What specifically is their issue with her sheds? I’ve never heard of such a thing, even for partially collapsed barns, unless they live in a HOA. And further, why would she pay the COUNTY anything? Are they building it?

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- MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  California. Sierra Nevada mountains in the middle of nowhere. She contacted the county to let them know she was building some small structures and they said she had to pay of bunch of fees for Ricky tacky bullshit that probably didn’t apply to her. Later she learned that everyone that lives out there just does whatever they want and they never notify the county prior. The entire region operates under the whole “better to ask forgiveness than permission” motto.
  
  Since she called the county had us harassed by inspectors and police for months growing up. Even got one of our neighbors fined for an illegal structure on his property since they spotted it while driving down the road to our place.
  
  This was years ago now, but it still really pissed me off.
  
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  - LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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    MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    See that’s the problem though. They claimed it was a hazard to have a tool shed next to our garden when it absolutely was not. If the regulations can be abused by greedy or evil people then they are shitty regulations.
    
    They knew she didn’t have the money for a lawyer to fight them on the bullshit application of their regulations. Single mom with two boys on a teacher’s salary and she didn’t have the time or money to argue with them.
    
    The property had several old sheds scattered around when we moved there but we tore them down as they were all rotted and falling apart.
    
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Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
On one hand, grass still burns and idiots are still idiots. But I also see your point and honestly, it is kinda weird these are not relaxed country side…

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- MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Most people that live a ways from any city just do it without asking and nobody from the county ever drives by to see it since it’s in the middle of fuckin nowhere.
  
  My mom was trying to do things by the book and got fucked for it. THAT is bullshit.
  
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