Is the government more qualified than a structural engineer?

[kingalmond]

I’m not very knowledgeable in this area and this could be incorrect so double check me. But depending on your location, can’t you get a homestead permit instead which would let you build and register the building as “built by an unlicensed builder”. Wouldn’t that let you get around having to add thing to it that you don’t want to?

[francislee]

You should make the bottom a greenhouse🤩

[NostalgicUnicorn]

Read "Everything I want to do is Illegal" by Joel Salatin.

[jacobsimanek]

Those concrete foundation footings are well within the critical root zone. The amount of compaction around the base from installing the structure is already stressful for the roots.

[ColleenMinihan]

This government is so sick and so controlling we got to fight back dude you need permission to build on your own property screw that

[SparrowHawk]

I'm a designer, have a Master's degree in Architecture, and professional architecture experience... building codes exist to protect people from unsafe building practices. Every piece of building code comes from hard lessons learned when poor design harmed people.

[WilliamHollister]

Awww! It's fun that you called it "my OWN land".
Silly rabbit! We don't get to OWN anything. You just have a license to pay tax on those acres 😁

[Im-From-the-stars]

Whoa wait a minute, so what if you put them on cinderblocks? because once it’s on cinderblocks it’s temporary and that changes the way you can build things.
I built a log house that’s 2100 ft.² on cinderblocks. There were 6 foot cinderblocks but nonetheless they were cinderblocks making my home not permanent changes the whole dynamics of building a home. My husband and I built that home in 1983 and it still stands today out in the woods of Washington state, and hand dug our well.

[cdvoices]

Ever see them amusement park set ups under the boarding track areas... do that. The sidings can be a lot way closer to what you want too to help with weathering.

[kingalmond]

I’m not very knowledgeable in this area and this could be incorrect so do your research but depending on your location cant you get a homestead permit instead which would let your build and keep that building as is and have it registered as built by a unlicensed builder?

[jiveturkey]

Wait till they start taxing you every year for land you bought and "own"... and if they say its worth more money this year than it was last year, well you have to pay more taxes....

[elizabethannedavis]

Yeahhhh. Remember when the guy from the European Union of whatever said "you will own nothing and be happy?" he also wants us to eat bugs. While he flys private and eats caviar. These people need to leave us TF alone. We are SICK of it.

[jeffmays]

Depending on how the inspection is done on the concrete you might could get away with less concrete. Would inspector know if its 2 ft deep?

[Gasher]

Might be worth it to order some concrete in a mixer truck instead of doing bags

[TheCrawfX]

Government over reach at its finest. Hope you get that settled as easily as possible. People suck. That’s why I see a lot of creators banking up lots of videos before releasing them because people do terrible things like calling the city just because they have nothing better to do.

[mattijs]

so... its not literally your own land.. if you are not allowed to do what you want with it

[redbulz]

Fake it with more beams, frames and giant windows, deff gonna be expensive but I’d say it’s better to make it a nature esk type place down there with expensive windows than to deface this beautiful house with just another house built underneath. Green house idea is really good, could make a permenant one that can make you self sustaining bro for real. I’m excited to see what you do, sorry the city fucking sucks

[michaelsweeney]

No what sucks even more is when your all done you will never own it just like me I have no mortgage but still have to pay $350 an month in taxes so u never really own it

[davidtaylor]

"Nooo dont make me make my house safer noooo"

[amirjabri]

Bro its too big to be a treehouse just get the permit and build it properly and learn your lesson and move on wirh life too much stress you are a smart guy but sometimes you have to cut your losses.