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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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