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                                  Leviathan

> Before you could get a building permit, however, you had to be approved by
> the Zoning Authority. And Zoning—citing FEMA (Federal Emergency Management
> Agency) regulations—would force you to bring the house "up to code," which
> in many cases meant elevating the house by several feet. Now, elevating
> your house is very expensive and time consuming—not because of the actual
> raising, which takes just a day or two, but because of the required
> permits.
>
> Kafka would have liked the zoning folks. There also is a limit on how high
> in the sky your house can be. That calculation seems to be a state secret,
> but it can easily happen that raising your house violates the height
> requirement. Which means that you can't raise the house that you must raise
> if you want to repair it. Got that?
>

“Roger Kimball: This Metamorphosis Will Require a Permit [1]”

Somehow, I get the feeling that we've reached peak government.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014241278873240817045782377225768897

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