OT:Busted by the city for my workshop :(, no permits......no plans.... Options

[Mueller]

Am I going to have to pay thru the nose? Any chance I'll have to tear it down?

I recieved a "stop work" notice on our front door and just a while ago someone from the city was there taking pictures...I talked to him on the phone and it appears I am 8 sq ft too big to be building the structure without a permit, but the electrical needs a permit no matter what size the workshop/shed is.

Anyone else have this happen? The guy taking the pictures did comment that it looks nice and well built, so let's hope the other inspector and the city does not bust my @ss too bad..........

[dmenche914]

Im my lovely town, it is all about harassement, and niosey busy bodies who have nothing better to do than tell you what you can do on your own property, becuase they do not like the the looks. here they want everyone to conform to their sense of what lloks good. keep in mind we have no restrictions on the books when we purchased house, but the god damn city tried to make all kinds of laws (and the city council is ran by realitors in this town)

They tried to ban parking of trailers, boats RV, on our own driveways (because it lowers property values they claim, no why the hell would I want to lower my properties value??) they even wanted to ban people from parking there own work trucks on there own driveways. They want to make permits required for non-major car repairs, outlaw all major car repairs, outlaw even working on a car inside your gargage 9they cited fire hazards, but when asked, could not provide one single instance of a fire from someone working on a car in the garage. They said RV s on the street endangered children who might run into the street and be hit cause the RV blocks views, but never had an instance of that on record, and even a small car is taller than a typical ten year old anyway. They wanted to ban clotheslines even. All this was proposed by a "Buetification committe" appointed by the city council. we got over 500 signitures,a nd took over the next three council meetings, so they voted it down, and then we kicked the two ringleader council members out of office the next election. I walked the beat and got 200 signatures, and when election time came along, walked the beat again to get rid of the scum.

Turns out one of the council members was a bastard realator, who would call the police to tage cars 72 hours before he would have a open house, just to get the cars moved.

dumb shit laws most of them are.