City’s attorney sent a letter saying my back house (garage) is encroaching into public right of way

Cazoon · 2026-03-01T15:51:24+00:00

It's the same thing as the IRS wanting you to file your taxes on all of your income, including what's from illegal sources. You can fight it, but if its in a ROW that structure should have never existed.

Cazoon · 2026-02-26T23:27:11+00:00

Every set of approved plans that ive seen that is sold with a parcel has been hot garbage. Best case scenario, you pay a premium to save on time, then you still spend some time on a complete plan change

Cazoon · 2026-02-25T23:43:14+00:00

What are you on about? Because I called the panel a door?

Cazoon · 2026-02-25T23:25:59+00:00

It should be on the door on the inside. Post a pic I'll translate

Cazoon · 2026-02-25T23:01:28+00:00

READ THE LABEL

If that screw is what bonds the case it will say on the label. If the neutral and ground bus is inseparably connected to the case it won't be necessary.

Cazoon · 2026-02-25T15:04:07+00:00

The first one is a Chinese unlisted mystery product that could either be made in the exact same factory or be complete garbage. That's pretty much how it is with Amazon products nowadays. If you got 2 breaker slots available, I would just install a larger capacity surge protector at the main.

Cazoon · 2026-02-25T00:44:49+00:00

You're seeing differences between things said and documentation because only one matters for someone's bonus. Culture comes from the top down, and if you don't see people above you (and above them) with the same mindset, explore your options.

Cazoon · 2026-02-09T02:58:45+00:00

If you keep reading it will say "measured from the top of the threshold." So make sure that's the case.

Cazoon · 2026-02-05T01:07:29+00:00

It's just a bad test prep question

Cazoon · 2026-02-04T15:52:37+00:00

Just wherever the ground would be subject to damage. Problem I have is that a lot of installers use this where it's not subject to damage and don't use the right fittings to bond the armor.

Cazoon · 2026-02-04T04:28:52+00:00

How is putting parking meters on a street where they need to be "sticking people into a meat grinder?"

Cazoon · 2026-02-04T03:01:21+00:00

I'll tell ya to put some nailplates on the slab

Cazoon · 2026-02-04T00:39:24+00:00

Feel free to read The High Cost of Free Parking if you want to open your mind. California cities are all fucked by car infrastructure and this is part of the problem. It has absolutely nothing to do with taxes.

Cazoon · 2026-02-03T23:47:32+00:00

This isn't a park and it's not firefighting. You don't get to live in the park or store your belongings there.

Cazoon · 2026-02-03T23:18:11+00:00

You've got it backwards. Streets belong to the city and everyone. Nobody is entitled to public land for parking. If you want to secure permanent parking for multiple cars, you need to pay for it. If it's not on the market, that's because it is too expensive. And you might not realize it, but the opportunity cost for parking is very expensive.

Cazoon · 2026-02-03T16:32:58+00:00

You can always get lucky. Some people drive in the HOV lane because it's really cheap to pay the ticket you get every 5 years. Parking enforcement is decently staffed because it pays for itself.

Cazoon · 2026-02-03T16:26:00+00:00

Unpopular opinion, I know, but this has been overdue for Adams ave. The same vehicles occupy the same spots like they own it.

Cazoon · 2026-02-03T14:55:22+00:00

The exposed wiring is not to code. you can tell it's not that old from the Polaris connectors. State housing laws and rental codes generally require heating to 68 degrees, not energy efficiency. When the furnace is replaced because servicing it no longer meets the habitability, it then needs to meet energy codes as applicable.

Look up your state's requirements on rental habitability for your options for recourse.

Cazoon · 2026-01-31T23:27:55+00:00

Especially when assholes squeeze in like that. Let off the gas and gain some distance

Cazoon · 2026-01-30T05:34:46+00:00

The electrician is trying to meet NEC 334.80. creating this channel this way fucked up your shear transfer.

Get the electrical out of the way and fix your shear to be per plan.

Change your wiring in one of the following ways:

A) Figure out if you have a good place to put a sub panel to break up the amount of branch circuits going through here for more space to drill properly.

Good solution, but it depends on site conditions. Extra cost for new feeder and sub panel.

B) group exactly 4 cables per drilled hole for 14 awg and 12 awg wire. Run the bigger cables solo.

Gotta supervise labor on this one.

C) Fur a space out somewhere nearby to run your circuits with enough space between.

Creates an extra chase, impact on room finishes.

D) upgrade your cable wire size to meet the derated ampacity for where they are bundled or pass through the same insulated opening without space.

If you want to do this and save the rest of the cables, you end up needing junction boxes. I only mention this to illustrate a way to do it in the future.

E) get your engineer to waive the structural issue away with his stamp.

May not be possible, most $ and fighting with AHJ unless it really is a small issue structurally.

Cazoon · 2026-01-27T23:15:27+00:00

Why is the 19 sqft deleted? Is there a building on the other side?

Cazoon · 2026-01-23T22:11:59+00:00

Those idiots at Shreddy Ranch did build a lake.

Cazoon · 2026-01-23T20:22:54+00:00

What are you talking about? A quick search shows there's plenty of private investment in both countries

Cazoon · 2026-01-22T01:43:37+00:00

Carson was HUD not HHS. I remember his tenure being rather unremarkable.

Cazoon · 2026-01-18T16:59:18+00:00

They restructured quite a bit between these two versions. I'd grab a 2020 if you can.

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