Building and zoning rules have gotten pretty insane here. In one area town the building and zoning people noticed most of the new houses were some shade of tan. They must not have liked earth tones because they made a rule that similar exterior colors had to be a minimum of 3 houses apart. That one actually got over turned when the developers had there customers complain to the village.
We built a few houses in a ritzy suburb south of Chicago. The next door neighbor of a house we were building was a doctor. The doc had his front yard landscaped. The landscape inspector went there to do a final inspection. He kept going from his car where he had several books laid out on the hood, then back to two trees in the front yard. Then he radioed for back up. Pretty soon there were three landscape inspectors, all with several books with pictures of trees on the hoods of their cars. They were using calipers to measure the tree trunks at various heights. They picked leaves off the trees to compare with pictures of leaves in their books. Final verdict....not an approved species of tree, and the caliper size was 1/4" too small. They had to be replaced.
My sis and bil had a small farm in western NY. They rented the tillable land to a neighbor. They got a notice from a state agency that they had to cease farming a wetlands area on their farm. They set up a meeting with someone from the state agency that sent the letter. They were under the impression the state was talking about a swamp area. Nope. More on that in a bit. They were talking about a marginal that some years was tillable but not other years because of moisture. It was dry the year the state guy was there but he identified it as wetlands because of some weeds that grew there. My bil pulled one of the weeds and said, I can't farm this area because of this weed? The state guy got very upset and warned my bil to never kill those weeds. So was the state concerned about preserving wetlands or were they concerned about protecting the plant life? Back to the swamp...at one point the tenant farmer about had my bil talked into draining it so it could be farmed. Then my bil decided he'd rather have a pond. The state conservation guy told him it couldn't be drained, and it couldn't be dug out for a pond because it would drain the wetlands area. Think about that. If the reason to protect wetlands is to replenish the aquifer, then turning the swamp into a pond would actually hep replenish the aquifer. Turns out the state was actually interested in preserving the plant life because it attracted migratory birds. My bil is nearing retirement age. With all the government bs he's had to deal with at work and with the farm in NY and another property in MA it's no wonder he wants to live on a house boat.
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