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    Default Re: Building Permit a Neighbor Put Up a Steel Garage Snow Dumps on My Property

    Quote Quoting Jean5720
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    This is in Michigan.

    My neighbor put up what he calls a "Temporary Garage" which is about 25 x 35 feet long 10 feet in height at the sidewalls, without a permit. The building is on a gravel pad and is about 18 inches (sidewall) from our property line which has a boundry fence on it which we erected on our side of the property. We put up the fence due to encroachment and tresspassing issues. The overhange of the roof is about 8 inches from the property line and fence. The roof slopes so that the snow will fall on and over the east-west property line onto our property and on top of our fence. We had our property surveyed before we put up the fence and the survey markers are in place. There is one survey marker next to the building which the neighbor put up which I base my measurements for the building's distance from the property line. This building is within 500 feet of a body of water.

    We complained to the local building/zoning office about the building and the zoning department issued the neighbor a building permit retrospectively. I am baffled that the zoning office would issue a permit that would allow the roof to dump what will be tons of snow on my property and driveway and will crush our fence and any vehicle parked there. We have a steel building on our property and last winter the snow piles were at least 5 feet high and 8 feet across (compacted) where the snow basically slides off the roof with a great deal of force I have contacted the zoning office to ask them how they could retrospectively issue a permit for this building that will literally dump tons of snow on my property. Crickets. We contacted the neighbor and told them of our concern about the snow. They now run and hide whenever they see us. Advice please.
    There is a very inexpensive solution to the problem that folks in snow regions know about when they have metal roofs. They are roof snow guards that are installed on the roof and prevent the snow from sliding. They come in metal or plastic and are just screwed to the roof in a designated pattern. Google snow guards for metal roofs and you will find hundreds of hits. Ask your neighbor to install them on your side of the building or offer to buy them for the neighbor. That will cost you a whole lot less than an attorney and all your time perusing it.


    Quote Quoting Harold99
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    . There are strict codes requiring all water drainage to be carried out to the street. Water drainage cannot run across a neighbor's property, whether its your side or back neighbor. That is code in at least CA.
    Once again you are making stuff up. It is always interesting that you never link to the ordinance or code that you say exists. And what you posted here is not correct.

    This is the CA code (and it is the plumbing code):
    1101.2 Where Required

    Roofs, paved areas, yards, courts, courtyards, vent shafts, light wells, or similar areas having rainwater, shall be drained into a separate storm sewer system, or into a combined sewer system where a separate storm sewer system is not available, or to some other place of disposal satisfactory to the Authority Having Jurisdiction. In the case of one- and two-family dwellings, storm water shall be permitted to be discharged on flat areas, such as streets or lawns, so long as the storm water shall flow away from the building and away from adjoining property, and shall not create a nuisance[.
    https://up.codes/viewer/california/c...rm-drainage#11

    And under common law, you can't change the natural flow of storm water from one property to another. In other words, the water on an uphill property will flow to a downhill property.

    This thread is not about storm water runoff. It is about snow sliding off a roof. How do you equate that a snow melt is storm water runoff?

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