Governmental control in disguise
What a bunch of shiesters.
To start this off, I'll explain what's going on. I'm in the process of building a garage and I leveled out my site where I am going to build. I saw my neighbor a few weeks ago, and I asked him, "When you had your pole building built, what did you have to take care of with the township to build it?" He tells me, "I had to go to the office and pay like $35 for a permit, that was it." The next day, I go to my township office to buy a permit. They tell me that things changed since 2008 and I need a storm water management application, and that I need to give them $850. That money goes into an escrow account, and $50 of it is for the permit fee. It costs about $300 to send someone out after I build my garage to make sure that the rain coming off my roof isn't flowing in a direction that will wash out a township road. Then the remainder ($500) should be refunded to me, it's mainly for their insurance in case my water runoff needs further evaluation to pass, blah blah blah. I'm like, ok, I gotta give them $850 so they can screw around and then I wait to get about $500 back....whatever. Then they tell me that I need to get a zoning permit from the county to build. I'm thinking, "this is that $35 permit my neighbor talked about". WRONG. Try $200. So it's gonna cost me about $550 when it's all said and done just to have the government say, "it's your property and we know you're gonna follow codes and not gonna disturb any other property or wells or roads, but give us your money anyway." This kind of shit makes people not even want to build accessory buildings. It's uncle sam's way of saying, "I know you own your property, but actually, you don't own your property, cause it belongs to is. If you fart on said property and the wind blows said fart across the street, you need a methane gas displacement permit." Shits Frustratiing. |
think about all the pensions you are supporting :)
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or they just dont want shit to flood...
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Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 796029)
or they just dont want shit to flood...
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Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 796029)
or they just dont want shit to flood...
Townships are crazy, I'd never live in one...hell, I'll probably never leave Texas. |
it's not so much that the ordinance didn't exist 100 years ago... it's that millions of square miles of concrete and roof didn't exist 100 years ago.
why is there flooding all the time in the midwest? because 100% of it has been worked by humans. |
Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 796047)
because 100% of it has been worked by humans.
Like Hustler kind of said, I could see if I lived in a town or a development, but I live in the middle of nowhere. Put it this way, if a deer walked through my yard, I could shoot it from my bathroom window while sitting on my toilet, and nobody would notice. If I built my garage, nobody would really care either. I went about it the legal way so I don't face future fines if my neighbors decide to not like me and rat me out. |
Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 796047)
why is there flooding all the time in the midwest? because 100% of it has been worked by humans.
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Can u write these fees off on your taxes? R u going to be doin any kind of work for money in this garage? Im sure they will tax you on this new structure anyway.
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Originally Posted by Miater
(Post 796068)
Can u write these fees off on your taxes? R u going to be doin any kind of work for money in this garage? Im sure they will tax you on this new structure anyway.
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And this kind of shit is the reason why the next house I buy will be out in the country.
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Originally Posted by ThatGuy85
(Post 796094)
And this kind of shit is the reason why the next house I buy will be out in the country.
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"Middle of Nowhere" in PA is apparently a whole different animal than "Middle of Nowhere" in a reasonable place like TX...
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Originally Posted by trickyrix
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"Middle of Nowhere" in PA is apparently a whole different animal than "Middle of Nowhere" in a reasonable place like TX...
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What's the "in disguise" part of it? It's gov't sucking more money out of the taxpayers, to justify their own existance.
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Originally Posted by rleete
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It's gov't sucking more money out of the taxpayers, to justify their own existance.
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I have a question. Are you building new on a site thats never had a building, or are you rebuilding a garage that you tore down?
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I had a like 8x10 storage shed there and I moved it, dumped 7 tri-axle loads of shale there, and am building a 24x32' pole building. I guess to answer your question, "yes, I am building on a site that's never had a building."
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