[TheForge] Small shop questions

[Bob Ehrenberger]

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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:27:24 -0700
From: Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Small shop questions

Being in the "scenic zone" the only way i was able to get a building
permit for the shop was to convince the coastal comission that the  ,
um, "studio" would be indestinguishable from the landscape...
...........
.....never had an inkling that the permit
process would take over 4 years and all our building money for BS
paperwork. Wonder if it'll be done before I'm dead?..........Pete F

Pete,
That is the advantage of living in the middle of nowhere Missouri.  When I
put up my shop 40x60 No permits, No inspections.  The assessor just visits
all the farms each year to see whats new that you have to pay tax on.

When I lived in Conneticut I had a neighbor that tore off an old shed
kitchen and then couldn't get a permit to rebuild it.  He found out too late
that he should have gotten a permit to remodel it first.  They were very
political, and nobody got variances unless you had friends in town councel.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.