After an inspection, town officials said the deck did not violate any building codes, although it was nailed, rather than bolted, to the house.
"Call the town for an inspection when you are really ready, when the insulation is up and you reveal what's on top of that header and you have a site plan and a survey for that illegal wall".
Demolitions in New Canaan rose to 81 a year in 2004, from 29 in 2001, and according to the town's building inspection department, the only homes built in 2004 were those built on the 81 teardown lots.
Before you were accepted into Stuyvesant Town, a thorough inspection of your previous living quarters was required, which included looking into your bedroom drawers and closets and under your bathroom and kitchen sinks.
Standing there, I call the town to arrange another inspection for the following day.
Imagine that your town introduces new building inspection rules that make your house look unsafe.
He drove to her town for an unnecessary inspection of the church steeple, knowing that she had to be back from the Pyramids but not knowing whether she would be at home or off on some other jaunt.
The buildings in this part of town that most warrant inspection, though, are the Sinclair Building, an authentic Art Deco landmark from 1930, and the pink-granite Beaux Arts-style Tarrant County Courthouse, erected in 1895 and lovingly restored in 1983.
"To further complicate things," said Wayne Kasacek, assistant director of the Connecticut Agriculture Department's Bureau of Regulation and Inspection, "the towns and the health districts can interpret these rules the way they see fit, though they generally follow the State Department of Public Health".
A casual inspection of the town park near City Hall seemed to support his claim.
