What about the contractors?
I suppose this means he can’t sneak in any minarets or onion domes then...
He’s building Dr. Evil’s secret lair!
City can demolish and send owner the bill. Cities do this often even for inadvertent illegal building. In this story, the city issued multiple stop orders over a long course of time. So owner can’t even claim his conduct was inadvertent
He was here in the Washington DC area back in the 1980’s. Bad actor then, did a lot of financial damage. Ran away to the west coast. Hasn’t changed a bit.
“In the meantime, the neighbors say that they live in constant fear of the hillside collapsing.”
“I have many concerns, still, about Guam’s airbase expansion,” Rep. Hank Johnson said.
“It’s just a fact.. uhhhh, da more houses we have on de hillsides, the more likely dem houses are, uhhhh, gonna be sliding’ down,” Rep. Johnson continued.
“I’m with these troubled neighbors,” Rep. Johnson concluded.
But it looks like the swimming pool will be ADA compliant.
I remember back in the 70s, some arab poobah bought a huge mansion on Sunset Boulevard, just west of the 405.
Didn’t take long for him to begin transforming the place into a monstrous eyesore.
The neighbors complained, the city cited him over and over, and even the local media picked up on it. Nothing detered the guy. It went on for years.
One day I drove by there, and the place was a burned out shell. I quietly cheered the brave soul who lit the match.
Not the public hair on the statues again.