[JoeProBono]

[iowamark]

Noah had the same problem.

[driftdiver]

If he was my neighbor I’d do it for him.

[Tainan]

This looks more like Costa Mesa, its right next to Newport Beach. I don't know of any section of NB that looks like that.

Costa Mesa on the other hand....

[Carriage Hill]

“...he could not give them an estimated date of completion.”

How about, “on the 12th of Never”.

[joe fonebone]

take the city to court... he is grandfathered in ( you cannot enforce an ordinance retroactively ) he will win hands down

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Maybe he can sell it on eBay.

[Tainan]

More here...the guy is an expert in boat building and repair.

California Man Shouldn't Have to Move Vintage Boat Project

On YouTube: Dennis Holland and the Shawnee

This sucks. I think this is right around the corner from where the company I used to work with is located.

[Daffynition]

[al_c]

"I can't move the boat," Holland said Friday. "The city's going to have to come in and destroy it. I don't have the heart to."

Uh ... if you can't move it then why did you pick that particular spot to rebuild it? Ya gotta think these things through, dude.

[skeeter]

This guy has a familiarity with this boat going back to the 50s, and bought the boat when he heard the city was going to scrap her.

He also has cancer and will likely not see the completion of his project - he intends for his son to finish it.

Bureaucracies are the same all over - real bottom feeders.

[Squantos]

Bttt...FYI !

[heartwood]

That’s pretty cool. I might consider it a neighborhood attraction, although there is the noise issue. How long is it going to take him to finish? Someone in town took six years to build a 3500 sq ft house all by himself.

Holland’s house looks like an upside down boat, with a wheelhouse perched on the hull.

[A CA Guy]

Yeah, I can see that piece of you-know-what lowering the sales prices of homes in the area.
Unless this guy wants to pay the differences in the tens of thousands each one of these homes would lose, I would suggest he move it pronto.

[smokingfrog]

Dennis Holland and the Shawnee

[Leroy S. Mort]

If he lived where I do, he could just move it around back. The neighbor whose yard backs up to mine has had a 30 foot motor home rotting away just over my property line for 15 years. He’s in legal compliance since “it can’t be seen from the street”.

[Fireone]

Anyone living on a small residential lot should think these things through, and pick the scope and scale of their projects accordingly.
If this guy would have built a pole building on a country lot somewhere, he wouldn’t be wasting his time fighting the inevitable.

[smokingfrog]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.640065,-117.897963&ll=33.640049,-117.897694&spn=0.000371,0.000562&num=1&t=h&gl=us&z=20

[troy McClure]

Here are photos of the Pride of Newport.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Spirit+of+Dana+Point&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-ContextMenu&rlz=1I7GGLL_enUS385&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=GztWT_24DqbQiALNxO3HBw&ved=0CD8QsAQ&biw=1341&bih=600