unixfmike
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# Posted: 16 Nov 2008 12:25
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Hi Cizzi. Sure you could just build it and see how long you can keep it. The local municipality will determine if you can keep it and financially penalize you, or condemn it and require you to destroy the building. To protect your time, money, and happiness invested it would be wise for you to call your local tax assessor and your local building/planning department and find out what you can do legally.
My brother always lived in the 10x12 or 120 sq. ft. rule for small buildings. In July after calling the city planning department(Lancaster, CA, USA), he found out he could build up to 220 (roughly 12x18)sqr. feet with no permits with 110v power. 220v power would require the whole structure be permitted.
With a call to my county assessor (Hughes Co, OK, USA), I was told "If it's on your land you can build it any size, but your phone, commercial electricity, and gas lines must be inspected". Come to find out, solar systems, non-comercial wind generators known to them as "experimentals", and gasoline generators can be connected via a manual transfer switch without any inspections or permits.
Once again, it is my recomendation to you that you make a few phone calls to whoever assigns tax value to your property, the people who approve building permits, and a surveyor (to insure you build on land you own). Make sure what you build is on your property, and that no one can fine you for it or take it away.
--Mike W.
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