yesterday or the day before i learned something new: the county (at least the one where i'm located) dictates the placement of a home on a given lot...

across the street from our "office" are three new homes being built. good size lots (crappy location - very much a "hillside" with a soggy area at the bottom, the top of the hill is at the road, and it is on a bend).

i walked over to ask the crews not to block our driveway.

in part of that conversation i found out that the "homeowner" was furious at the site location of the house. he, the crew, and i, conscensed that the house should have been sited further back instead of a mere 20 feet (it is very close) from the edge of the road - and a very dangerous curve at that...

turns out the county said "it goes here" on the engineering plan.

the construction foreman stated the county dictates house siting on a given plot...

so there you go.

if you really owned it, YOU'D dictate where it would be, wouldn'tcha?

jon