04-10-2013, 09:53 AM
Quote: "We have a neighbor that built an unpermitted house next to one of our properties.
What (if anything) happens to you if get caught?"
When the slumlord on the street behind us was reported because he had pulled a permit for a less than 600 ft studio and a carport which then morphed into 4 separate households on a lot zoned for single family residence, the building department gave him step by step instructions on how to comply with the letter of the law while evading the intent. He pulled the 3 extra kitchens until after the inspection, claimed they were all "bedrooms" and then after inspection he replaced the kitchens and has continued business as before. I know this because he bragged about it to me when I ran into him in a local restaurant. I don't know what, if anything, was done about the cesspool that was built for a 1 bathroom studio, and now has 4 houses on it, but the county did not have any interest in actually saving our neighborhood from what is a tropical version of a low rent trailer park built right on 3 of the property lines.
The kind of tenants he gets for these jungle shacks are not anyone he would want living next to him in his neighborhood in Kona. But as he said "nobody gives a sh*t, it is only Puna."
From this fiasco I would say that personal experiences will vary when it comes to enforcement of the zoning and building codes, If the inspectors don't care nothing real will happen, if they do care you may get some satisfaction.
Carol
What (if anything) happens to you if get caught?"
When the slumlord on the street behind us was reported because he had pulled a permit for a less than 600 ft studio and a carport which then morphed into 4 separate households on a lot zoned for single family residence, the building department gave him step by step instructions on how to comply with the letter of the law while evading the intent. He pulled the 3 extra kitchens until after the inspection, claimed they were all "bedrooms" and then after inspection he replaced the kitchens and has continued business as before. I know this because he bragged about it to me when I ran into him in a local restaurant. I don't know what, if anything, was done about the cesspool that was built for a 1 bathroom studio, and now has 4 houses on it, but the county did not have any interest in actually saving our neighborhood from what is a tropical version of a low rent trailer park built right on 3 of the property lines.
The kind of tenants he gets for these jungle shacks are not anyone he would want living next to him in his neighborhood in Kona. But as he said "nobody gives a sh*t, it is only Puna."
From this fiasco I would say that personal experiences will vary when it comes to enforcement of the zoning and building codes, If the inspectors don't care nothing real will happen, if they do care you may get some satisfaction.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb