A few years ago the local enforcers started enforcing a code about easements and roof lines and even gutters "hanging" over easements. So a utility easement along a property line will control the location of the building even more than setback lines. It caused a bunch of redesign and adjustments for a number of clients, particularly townhome type development which the city is promoting to help with affordability.
So while preparing a plat today there comes an exception. As long as there is a note on the plat saying that code doesn't apply, then the code goes away, you have to be specific, but the code is negated by the note. My poor younger partner told me about it this afternoon and I went off. We are in the middle of fighting over this very thing on two subdivisions, and now they tell us all we needed to do is put a few words on the plat and it goes away. How is that even fair. Of course, every plat will get that language now. For F!!$k sakes.