Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by ashtonkem on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:40AM (#23935796)

Tangentially related, but a colleague just got their replacement of kitchen cabinets shut down by the local government for not having a permit. It’s baffling to me that the government requires that you get permission to do significant modification to the inside of your own home, especially for non structural work.

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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by PakG1 on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:58AM (#23935890)

What the heck? How would they even know? Neighbours reported seeing them carrying new cabinets in? The store reported it to the government? That's just weird.

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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by nitrogen on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:42AM (#23936140)

Neighbours reported seeing them carrying new cabinets in?

Something like this actually happened to a former colleague of mine. They installed a safety rail on their front porch. Someone complained.

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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by jacobush on Friday July 24, 2020 @07:53AM (#23938397)

That’s at least outdoors

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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by nitrogen on Friday July 24, 2020 @05:25PM (#23944627)

True, but children can run much faster than a permitting process.

Maybe in the cabinetry case there was a giant van with a company logo parked out front.

Either way, permits shouldn't be required for non-disruptive (and a van being in someone's driveway is not disruptive), non-structural changes to a house.

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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by ashtonkem on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:15PM (#23946080)

He gave the old cabinets away on Craigslist. Must’ve seen the posting and cross checked it against permits.

I’m aware that zoning and permitting laws have been an issue for a while (like a lot of Millenials I haven’t been able to afford to buy a home), but it does feel a bit authoritarian for the local permitting office to look for signs of “black market” modifications to one’s own property.

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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by eecc on Friday July 24, 2020 @04:32AM (#23937113)

Where did that happen?

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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by ashtonkem on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:19PM (#23946091)

West LA, but after relaying this story to my family in the midwest I found out that my sister in law had to get permits to replace internal drywall. It seems like lots of local governments think they should have their nose in how one modifies one’s own property.

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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by Gibbon1 on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:46PM (#23946228)

Welcome to home ownership. Location everywhere.

Most places like not places like Oakland, Berkeley and Santa Cruz County, this sort of thing depends on the neighbors. It's inane what neighbors will go running to the city for. Or not. Friend of mine in the east bay completely gutted and remodeled his house no problem. In San Jose neighbors complained to the city about a disused dishwasher in my garage.

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