[WSBARP] side yard setback issue

[Kary Krismer]

My first question would be how certain is the client of the actual lot 
boundary?  Are they working off stakes in the ground from an actual 
survey?  One foot is a relatively tight margin.

Kary L. Krismer
206 723-2148

On 8/31/2020 4:10 PM, Rod Harmon wrote:
>
> Client built a garage within four feet of the side yard boundary with 
> his neighbor.  The side yard setback for his zone is 5 feet.  The 
> garage was built 18 years ago with a permit and inspection by 
> Snohomish County.  The inspector did not catch the setback issue.  The 
> client didn’t catch it until recently when he measured.  The neighbor 
> is friendly but old and ill and client is worrying about what his 
> neighbor’s successor might think.  And client may want to change the 
> use of the garage so he is worrying about what the county might do or 
> not let him do with that structure.
>
> So, how to solve the problem as inexpensively as possible now that he 
> has a cooperative neighbor?  A lot line adjustment?  An easement of 
> some kind?  Anything else?
>
> Rod Harmon
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