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simshay
 
Reply Sun 16 Mar, 2008 09:16 pm
A construction job is excavating a foundation 27 feet below ground. Their neighbor, an empty lot as of yet, will be forced to the same when they decide to build, according to the city building codes. Has their ever been a ruling in US that the first owner is obligated to pay the the second lot owner for this extra $150,000 expense that is useless to him?
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Miller
 
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Reply Thu 27 Mar, 2008 09:11 am
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according to the city building codes


What do the codes spell out?
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parados
 
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Reply Thu 27 Mar, 2008 10:08 am
I am curious as to why the are excavating 27 FEET below ground level. What the heck are they putting in that requires that depth? A three story basement?
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fishin
 
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Reply Thu 27 Mar, 2008 01:38 pm
Re: construction and neighbors
simshay wrote:
A construction job is excavating a foundation 27 feet below ground. Their neighbor, an empty lot as of yet, will be forced to the same when they decide to build, according to the city building codes. Has their ever been a ruling in US that the first owner is obligated to pay the the second lot owner for this extra $150,000 expense that is useless to him?


None that I can think of and I don't imagine there would be. Why should a builder be responsible for an adjoining lot owner being able to meet the city's building code?
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fishin
 
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Reply Thu 27 Mar, 2008 01:43 pm
parados wrote:
I am curious as to why the are excavating 27 FEET below ground level. What the heck are they putting in that requires that depth? A three story basement?


It's fairly common in cities if the area was backfilled. Places like New Orleans require piers be driven into the ground 30+ feet. There are many sections of Boston that have similar requirements. Maybe it's a coastal regions thing?

Sometimes they have to excavate down and pour and actual footing.
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