tree house lady--love her or hate her?

musicprnt
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:38:14 +0000

What concerns me about this story is the building department ordering it torn down without even waiting to see if it could be brought up to code. When it comes to safety, things like wiring and plumbing and the like are important, if the treehouse was structurally unsafe, same thing.

The problem is building departments also are political, where for example they harass someone with a technicality because other people don’t like the way people have their house (for example, if others in the neighborhood decided this lady’s treehouse was ‘ruining property values’ and the building department was looking for some reason to tear it down (not saying that in this case, using this as a hypothetical). Hopefully they can find a way to bring this up to code and be able to preserve it, unlike many people I tend to cherish oddballs doing their own thing.