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Can't build a pole barn

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Area planning won't allow me to build a pole barn on a 3/4 acre lot in the country. Area planning says the lot has to have a house on it.
To get around area planning rules, I had to connect the 3/4 lot to my house which is adjacent to the lot.

In the future I could remove the 3/4 acre lot. If I built the pole barn, and I wanted to build a house on the property, that could be done too.

Area planning does have some advantages. No one can put a trailer in their backyard, it has to be put in a mobile home park. No one sells single wide trailer in my area.

I also learned that everything you do requires a permit.
I rent out a commercial building. The guy I rented to for 6 years didn't want electricity. He stored his grandson's race car in it. So the power company pulled the meter. I had to pay $25 to get the building inspector to put a green tag on the meter.

Sometimes you got to love area planning and inspectors.
 
I Agree the guys at county planning are a pain in the a__. Went to sell 21 acres. They said I could only split the farm 4 times. OK there This would be only second split in 189 years. They said I could only sell 20 acres. Said I need to pay 200 to get a variance. Came back later and said they were wrong. I a needed a wavier and that is 300. Next they said the depth of property could not be over 3.5 times the width??.That would leave a strip of land you could not turn a combine in.Next they said I have to give them so many feet for a road right of way. Creek runs across the middle of farm. said I could not sell because you have to drive thru creek to get to the back. Been driving thru creek for 53 years. After 4 month of fighting I got it sold.I feel like the only freedom we have is the freedom of speech and if you say one wrong word you don't have that. You could loose your job.
 
out of hand. 20 years age a built my 2400 sq ft house with 3 car garage.
i had to get the bldg permit. ok said i needed a set of plans. ok i took a pice of paper and put it the plans on it and gave it to him. he look kind of funney and said ok today, but not after today. said ok. the new planning is going to go on board tonight. why do you think i getting my permit today. cost me $25.00. if i waited it would have cost me $400.00 plus and real drawing.
the house is still standing. i have bult a 24 by 48 room on our old house 3 barns and the 2400 sq feet house we live in now.
i do not think i should have to pay someone who never bult a house several hundred dollar to look at it. i was talking to my banker about the permit. he said it was needed because he knew of a new house where kitchen sink just run into craw space. i said the owner should be checking on that stuff. be kink to me about my spelling or how ever it is spewlled.be kink to me about my spelling or how ever it is spewlled.
 
If you get tired of planning and zoning, move to Missouri. A "pole barn" in Misssouri is a carport that has gone thru a tornado in Oklahoma with used plywood baling-wired to the sides. Stacked to the rafters with junk while their $80,000 diesel dually truck sits outside.
 
(quoted from post at 12:37:02 11/06/18) If you get tired of planning and zoning, move to Missouri. A "pole barn" in Misssouri is a carport that has gone thru a tornado in Oklahoma with used plywood baling-wired to the sides. Stacked to the rafters with junk while their $80,000 diesel dually truck sits outside.
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Yup. You get outstate in Michigan, it looks like that.
 
Before our municipality amalgamated and went to amateur hour at a comedy club here in Manitoba, when we joined a bunch of fools that couldn't organize an under age drinking party in a brewery. we had a town clerk that would spend more time explaining and figuring out how you could do something without needing a permit than the cost of it.

I spent an hour or so there one day while he saved me $50. One permit I needed he just said you fix my own tractor when I need it, and don't worry about it. He retired shortly before he died, I guess I just got grandfathered into fixing the town lagoon pump tractor now instead. I do that for a 3rd of dealer cost, and they've never said anything about the permit I should have in the Larger Municipality either.
Regards Robert.
 
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