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Originally Posted by GregWeld
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Several of the design elements are "forced" by code.
#1 - Motor Court... this is a must and had to be enlarged because the fire department bought a new 'rig' right after the big fires here this summer! We had to re-submit plans enlarging this and the driveway so that their new truck can make a 3 point turn. Not kidding here. We don't have enough friends to fill this area up unless Charley brought every car he owns.
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I'll try to make this a quick story about a similar problem we ran into... My business partner is from NC he built rented and sold single family vacation homes on the Outer Banks for over 20 years. The last one we built was North of the paved road, one had to drive up the beach, then over a large sand dune to get back to the house. It is a 10 bedroom house, 3 stories tall. The plans were approved by the County and construction started. When it came time for the framing inspection, the County inspector wouldn't approve it because the peak of the roof was just under 35' tall, even though the plans the County approved specifically showed this. Height restriction was due to the inability to get a firetruck with a ladder tall enough to reach a roof over 30' tall to the house... Two separate codes on the books = 1 huge problem.
Spent almost a year in meetings with the County trying to decide what to do. Several heads rolled, and in the end, we ended up cutting the peak off of the roof and making it a flat top.
What a clustermess...
