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A friend of mine in Spain bought a masia, but was not allowed to tear down the old building to build a new house (protected heritage or something, even though i
by pelorat 4y ago
A friend of mine in Spain bought a masia, but was not allowed to tear down the old building to build a new house (protected heritage or something, even though it was junk). So the way around it was to do it in steps. Replace it whole building part by part. So now he has a new house (but it looks like the old one in shape), but there's nothing left of the original.
- jefftk 4y agoNot limited to Spain: here in Somerville MA I see people doing this pretty often. They leave just enough of the building standing (two walls?) that it counts as a remodel and they can keep all the zoning exemptions from the old structure. If they tore it down entirely they wouldn't be able to build anything nearly as large. Completely legal, but a good illustration of how even our new (and honestly much improved) zoning is too restrictive.
- ROTMetro 4y agoThis is the main way people under the California Coastal Commission's authority did projects up until I moved as well.
- Mizza 4y agoSeen this a lot in Philadelphia lately. Part of one outer wall remains standing, everything else is totally destroyed and built new around it. Creates some interesting looking collage-buildings.
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