Before you could get a building permit, however, you had to be approved
by the Zoning Authority. And Zoning—citing FEMA regulations—would force you to bring the
house "up to code," which in many cases meant elevating the house by
several feet. Now, elevating your house is very expensive and time
consuming—not because of the actual raising, which takes just a day or two,
but because of the required permits.
Kafka would have liked the zoning folks. There also is a limit on how
high in the sky your house can be. That calculation seems to be a state
secret, but it can easily happen that raising your house violates the
height requirement. Which means that you can't raise the house that you
must raise if you want to repair it. Got that?
Roger Kimball: This Metamorphosis Will Require a
Permit
Somehow, I get the feeling that we've reached peak government.
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