buildig with permit vs no permit

[BlackAkita]

County enforcement is arbitrary, "complaint driven", and proportional to the perceived land value (roughly "distance from paved road"). If you have a gate, they need a court order to enter the premises. This is just far too much effort.

I was probably "discovered" because someone said something. The only "enforcement" was an adjustment of the assessed value. My taxes went up.

I told County I was not going to get permits. They noted this in their files. I still qualified for the homeowner property tax rate.

There was no way County didn't know my house was unpermitted. They simply declined to enforce.

Kalakoa, did it all end with the Tax Assessor adjusting your property tax for the extra, unpermitted addition? Were you ever bothered by the Department of Planning and Permits? I have found that the government is never a homogeneous entity, but if there is someone in government who wants to give you a hard time (or make an example of you), they will go out of their way to squash John Q. Citizen like a bug.