CuckoosNest
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What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? New York.
We are in the process of building a new lakefront home. The house plans include a 10' deep deck off the back of the house facing the lake. Local zoning requires the house to be a minimum of 50' from the lake.
The engineer who drafted the foundation plan placed the house 57' from the lake and our builder appoved (we never signed off on the foundation plan, they just went ahead and started.) As it turns out, the deck is included as part of the structure and if we build it to plan, we'll be 3' over the set-back. To get a variance will take upwards of six months and cost us huge in application, postage and attorneys fees. Reducing the deck to 7' deep would make it ridiculously small.
Our builder has been pelting us with one hidden cost after another, so this is the last straw. Now, he wants us to take care of the variance independently, to which I say "NO." What legal action can we take? Isn't the builder supposed to be the one up on local codes?
We are in the process of building a new lakefront home. The house plans include a 10' deep deck off the back of the house facing the lake. Local zoning requires the house to be a minimum of 50' from the lake.
The engineer who drafted the foundation plan placed the house 57' from the lake and our builder appoved (we never signed off on the foundation plan, they just went ahead and started.) As it turns out, the deck is included as part of the structure and if we build it to plan, we'll be 3' over the set-back. To get a variance will take upwards of six months and cost us huge in application, postage and attorneys fees. Reducing the deck to 7' deep would make it ridiculously small.
Our builder has been pelting us with one hidden cost after another, so this is the last straw. Now, he wants us to take care of the variance independently, to which I say "NO." What legal action can we take? Isn't the builder supposed to be the one up on local codes?