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[quote=Anonymous]First of all you should never build up to property line as you have no cushion. Even a one inch mistake puts you over property line.

My old house I did almost do an addition. I had strict set back from street, set backs on both sides, set back in rear, plus only a certain percentage of property could be built on.

In the end I got plans to go out over my existing flat roof garage, existing small inheated porch and my 10-12 one story existing kitchen pop out. It would give me 500 foot more sf without impacting foot print. and way less making neighbors upset and no chance of footprint issues. And I was not making a third floor. I was just building on parts of my first floor that did not have a floor on top.

What he is doing is creating a monster home that makes no sense. Plus creating multi family in a single family zone without proper parking.

And it is a stupid financial move. My greek friends my old town did this nonsense. The blow out for their parents already in their 70s took way way longer than expected. Annoyed the parents already retired, raised their property taxes, raised their home insurance, went over budget. When done the parents said it would have just made more sense they  bought a two bedroom coop in the building a 1/4 mile their home they could live in. Made no sense to do it. That was 2010.

Now that family this year is an empty nestor, last kid at college and parents dead and they have a house too big with high property taxes.

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