in my town, you need a permit to REPLACE an existing fence with $100 permit fee of course
No pool anywhere is the safest, legally speaking. You could have one completely in your own backyard, with 10 foot fences topped with broken glass, no gates and you’d still have insurance issues.
it’d be cheaper for him to rent a mini-dozer and grade a flat spot in his own lot. and a lot less headache, cost, and risk for you.
Local government (county or municipality depending on where you are), doing everything they can to make sure WE only do what THEY want on OUR property. All part of taking control, and implementing Agenda 21. When they make it such a burden to do something simple, they nudge us into compliance with their desire to let them decide for us what is appropriate!
Jack Welch, past Chairman of the General Electric Company, wrote these comments for GE’s Annual Report, 2000:
“Annihilating Bureaucracy.”
“We cultivate the hatred of bureaucracy in our Company and never for a moment hesitate to use that awful word “hate.” Bureaucrats must be ridiculed and removed. They multiply in organizational layers and behind functional walls—which means that every day must be a battle to demolish this structure and keep the organization open, ventilated and free. Even if bureaucracy is largely exterminated, as it has been at GE, people need to be vigilant—even paranoid—because the allure of bureaucracy is part of human nature and hard to resist, and it can return in the blink of an eye. Bureaucracy frustrates people, distorts their priorities, limits their dreams and turns the face of the entire enterprise inward.”
“In a digitized world, the internal workings of companies will be exposed to the world, and bureaucracies will be seen by all for what they are: slow, self-absorbed, customer insensitive—even silly.”
You should check out overlawyered.com which “chronicles the high cost of our legal system.” The site is maintained by the Cato Institute.
A swimming pool of any sort on one’s property is an invitation to a multi million dollar lawsuit.
They never know when to stop, and they would not stop if they did, It is called job insurance for people who are too stupid and worthless to do anything except make it hard for every one else.