Quote Originally Posted by slgrieb View Post
I'd call that a sound decision. Back when I lived in Austin about 30 years ago, I bought an 18x32 ft portable building and dropped it on my lot without needing a building permit. Now, here I am up in Bullwind Texas. When I bought my current 8 1/2x 16 portabuilding, I went to planning and zoning to see if I needed a building permit. I did. I got one. But, reading the fine print, it turned out that the city expected me to pour a full slab for the building! f me. Thanks to small town cronyism and cheap bribes, I got a variance to install concrete footings, and secure the building to them, without the expense of a slab.
I don't think they stress over it too much here, I think they're mostly enforcing codes on places that are falling apart, etc. The reason I say that is because when I was in the process of putting this pool up (had the sand mound piled up, pool and track was laying beside it, etc.) I came home for lunch one day and the codes inspector was in my neighbor's back yard talking to him about a run down shed in the next lot over they called complaining about (skunks were living in it). Anyhow, he looked over at me and said hello. I figured I was getting a fine for sure but never heard a word about it and that was 3 years ago now.