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I thought you guys might humor this.  This house is a couple miles from me and sat unoccupied following its construction several years ago.  I always assumed it was a setback problem because it was oddly too close to the roadway.  What I saw today when I drove by confirmed my belief.   If you want to see the setting from Google Earth, the coordinates are   39.094444 N   76.576687 W    The Google Earth street view still shows it before the chopped it off.

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7 hours ago, Bill Kibbel said:

Wow.  WTAF happened that it got this far?

I know right.  You would think the AHJ would have threw the flag on the footing inspection.  Maybe even the grading permit.  
 

I figured these pictures might be good for a few laughs at any training event. Help yourself.  Grab the Google Earth angles to.  

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Mistakes happen. 

I once worked on an apartment building that ended up being built 6" over the boundary of the neighboring property. It was discovered during the ALTA survey at the very end of construction. 

The original surveyor's E&O insurance paid to buy a 1' strip of land from the neighbor. 

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There is a 60s development nearby that has 100 houses on 200' circle lots with the remainder being common area. In the early 2000s the HOA decided to update the surveys to GPS. They halted after 18 lots were done and only 3 homes were within their 200' circles.

 

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I guess that house is too tall to jack up and move. I inspected an older rancher that has one back corner carved off like that, too close to the sideline with the neighbor. The lot lines hit the road at an angle, and I imagine the builder measured his front corner and laid out the foundation from there. The alteration appeared to be recent and sloppy, probably by one angry home owner.

Sometimes the owner can apply for and get a variance if he goes around and gets signatures from neighbors. Setbacks from a public road are a different matter, no tolerance there.

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