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Thank you--I hadn't thought of the stormwater issues. Our yard and our neighbor's yard began flooding regularly when a neighboring house was torn down and a new larger house was built in its place reducing the grass and tree cover to the bare minimum allowed.    The builder didn't care.  We appealed to MoCo but they said since we were infinitesimally downhill from our neighbor that it wasn't their problem, even though our yard never flooded in 10 years prior.  We each had to pay thousands of dollars to regrade our property and install additional drainage. [/quote]

So your neighbor had to pay thousands of dollars to regrade their property so it wouldn't flood your yard?

That sounds like a good incentive for the homeowner to make sure that, if they build a free-standing ADU, it doesn't flood their neighbor's yard.[/quote]

I read it that the PP had to pay so that her own property did not get flooded.[/quote]

PP you're responding to. I read it that they both had to pay - the PP, and the neighbor who bought from the builder.

Actually, if I'd been the neighbor who bought from the builder, I might have consulted a lawyer about the builder's legal obligations to deal with the stormwater runoff.[/quote]

Nope, that was my post.  I had to pay for additional drainage and re-grading.  So did my neighbor.  The new build owners/builder paid nothing.  MoCo stormwater management did nothing.  We did consult a lawyer, but since MoCo approved the stormwater management plan as appropriate, we had no recourse and opted not to bring action and suffer legal fees for an uncertain outcome, when MoCo planning tends to be on the side of the new builder (witness what they did when Ourisman Honda built on public land, they just gifted the property to them,  because they had made a mistake in approving the plans.)[/quote]

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