I found it quite amusing when I was building my deck to find out what the zoning restrictions were. They said I could build the deck up to three feet from my property line. When I asked about putting the stairs in, they said that the deck was hard construction, but that the stairs were soft construction. Soft construction can be built right up to the property line. So, my deck goes to three feet from the line, and the stairs go from the edge of the deck to the line. They signed off on it, so it is all cosher.
Of course, my father-in-law, who lives in the boonies, and lives on 90 acres of land, scoffed at the whole thing, and said, just build the damn thing. Of course, he has built all kinds of structures on his property, and I doubt has ever met the local zoning board. *GRIN* He knows how the system works too, since he was a construction consultant for many years. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081
