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him. “When the road was relocated onto Ms. Nash’s property, it brought into question whether the house was too close to the property line.” No survey had been done on the property, and the exact boundary line was apparently not clear in all places.
“I feel really stupid,” Mr. Clifton told the planners. I never ran into 100-fpot setbacks. It was my error . . . I took bearings from a peg. I was not aware of an additional piece of property wlflch impinged onto the Nash propejjy.”
Mr. McCarthy said he saw several difficulties with Mr. Clifton’s suggestion that the county’s building inspector verify the setback compliance when he inspects the footers, normally during the first phase of construction.
Quite often, he said, when the inspector arrives to look at the footers there is no one on the site. Contractors usually leave to do other wrork while aw’aiting footer inspections, since no additional work can be done at that point.
And, he added, often the peg used to take bearings for the site cannot be easily found, and without that, the exact distance from the lot line to the house is impossible to ascertain accurately. Property plats, even if they were on display with the building permit, would be useless without some reference to land
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