#propety

How’s this for fun...l got in the mail to the estate involving this little bit of land we have near the coast, a notification about an adjacent property…

Oh, you might be wondering about this “land”. I say “land” because it’s a swamp more than my swamp. Back when my father and grandfather started planning building the big boat they thought they should by a place on one of the sounds for docking it. Stuff happened after my grandfather bought it but before they could do anything with it. Long story short, the boat never got to be ocean going anyway and the “land” wasn’t really usable, so it has just sat there.

I have visited the land exactly twice. On the second trip in which we we were working about trying to resurvey it by kayak, there was no solid land at all past the first couple steps off the road. We had to park on the side of the road and next to it was very wet wetlands. Unfortunately we never got the work done because of the wreck on the drive home (hit by TWO vehicles and the pickup was totaled), but I doubt that the land has gotten any drier in the last 15yrs!

Anyway, baffling though it is anyone is building there, the people with the next property are applying for a “CAMA Minor permit”. We are supposed to reply with whether we have objections or not based on the included copy of the application and project drawing….

Except there was no project drawing inclosed. And the application seems to have been filled out wrong. Even the paper for us to fill out was filled out wrong, with some blanks and things out in the wrong spot.

Here is the sum total of the info on their project: “Fishin House”

(That isn’t a typo BTW. )

So I dunno know how close this will be to our property or the size of it. It it a shack for a family to got fishing or is it something they hope to use commercially? Will they be filling in the swamp land or building on stilts? I mean, we probably don’t object if it’s just involving their land, but how can we know until without any info?

And now I remember a couple days after Mom died getting a call from someone about the land. I assumed it was another vulture wanting to buy things up, but it turned out to be a guy representing a client with land next to ours that wanted to talk about a right of way. I told him the land owner had just died, and he said he’d get back in touch in a few months. If this is the same thing then this might not just be a case of doing something on their land but will take no objection as permission to do things with our land we don’t know about. Legal or not, they may read it that way judging by the actual reading comprehension on display on the forms.

Now since my brother is still dealing with estate stuff, I could shunt it on to him. Except…

10 days. That’s how long after signing for these papers we have to respond. If no comments are received in 10 days after receipt it is assumed you have no comments or objections!

Well, I can’t mail it on to my brother, have him fill it out, and then mail it back to the planning department in that county and be sure to get it there in ten days.

Soooo…now I have to e-mail that planning/development department to see if they can clarify anything. Then I have to figure out how to explain it all to my brother with as little stress to both of us as possible. That should be hard! **

And you do realize that I’m probably going to all this bother over something that will probably turn out to have no impact at all on us or our property.

If only they had at least included a back of an envelope sketch…..