New development 12" from existing home

Maybe they'll finish it off with some nice T1-11 siding and paint it a lovely shade of purple. Something to really jazz up the neighborhood.

> I guess people really need to pay attention to the zoning when purchasing a home... [...]

And maybe actually have a survey made, too. The house looks like an ordinary frame house that probably has windows on the side facing the CMU wall. Who would buy a house like that knowing it was only a foot from the boundary to the windows?

Kent

I've seen and heard many complaints in this area in the past 30 years that are similar to this. As the Atlanta area population increased the suburbs extended into formerly rural areas. People would complain about the farms located adjacent to their subdivisions. "How dare they have chickens (hogs, cows, etc.) next to residential subdivisions?" It didn't matter that the farms had been there for decades before the subdivisions were developed. Some people just don't do "due diligence" before plopping down the money for a home.

Andy

Kent

same thing at Airports.

Kent

and shooting ranges

Looks like construction in Chicago, New York or anyother large city.

> Who would buy a house like that knowing it was only a foot from the boundary to the windows?

Well, we don't know what was there before. Could be that it was another house (maybe a mirror image twin) only one foot away on the other side of the property line.

There are houses and lots like that all over NYC, i.e., if you remember the row upon row of closely situated houses that rolled over the opening credits of "All In the Family", those were in Glendale, the next neighborhood west of Forest Hills.

I've done numerous surveys where one side offset was eight feet and the other side offset was one or two feet. I believe today's zoning would not allow that.

I'd sell the house to a Biker gang.

If it's okay for the old house to be 1' from the PL then if guess it's okay for the new house to be 1' from the PL.