Non-Water Bill Issue; Look What This Blogger's Neighbor Built Next Door

This year is finding me fighting the City of Cleveland's Division Of Water and my own suburb, University Heights. I launched this website to help fight the Water Department because of an erroneous bill that I, along with 2,000 other Cuyahoga County residents received.

I sure didn't wake up one morning and say to myself, "I want to become a community activist of sorts!"

But, now my other fight has been revealed.

My next door neighbor asked me {In November} if he could build a "storage shed." I said sure-go ahead.

Here is what he built;

{Our lovely new view from our family room}

Nice, huh?

University Heights is not exactly known for it's spacious back yards.

So, I just had to post this from Cleveland.com;

"University Heights City Council has overturned a variance granted by the city's Board of Zoning Appeals that permitted an East Carroll Boulevard man to have a larger shed in his back yard than city's code allows."

Continue reading this short piece here

Oh yeah. I think I should share with you what my visual of a storage shed is;

Right?

Comments

[lisa]

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[Joel Libava]

Hi Gloria!
How the heck are you feeling.

See, I trusted this guy. He never told me what it was going to look like, nor exactly where he was going to put it in his backyard.

In the hearing that we attended after it was already up, and where we were asking for it to be removed, he himself referred to it as a "barn."

I wonder if my reaction would have been different if he said, "Joel I want to build a barn, is that ok with you?"

Answer. I would have never let it go up..I would have gone right to the Mayor.

JL

JL

[Gloria Ferris]

Another example of one man's storage shed is another man's castle?? It appears your neighbor's shed would have needed one of them variance things. I can just hear your neighbor now when asked did you ask your neighbor? "Oh, sure, yep, I asked him, in fact, he told me, sure, go ahead.". Another example of needing to ask more questions than you thought you needed, Joel to get to the "real" story.