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[quote=Anonymous]I live in CCDC and am exploring a 2-story addition to our small house.  We're on a corner lot, with plenty of room to build over what -- by most definitions (our street address, general design of the house, etc.) -- would be considered our side yard.  However, due to reasons I don't really understand, the city considers that space to be our back yard, which greatly restricts how much we can build on it.

To build in that direction, we'd have to get a special exception that effectively acknowledges that the yard on the side of our house is, well, our side yard (i.e. reality).  The architects we've consulted have given wildly mixed projections of how likely we'd be to get that exception -- everything from "no way in hell" to "probably not" to "sure."

Before we proceed with one of these optimists, or even get our hopes up that the project will be possible, I'm looking for examples of people who have successfully changed the "official" orientation of their homes.  Have you done this?   If so, any tips on how to proceed?  [/quote]

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