How to get around building permit restrictions

How to get around building permit restrictions

My favorite thing to do in NC is lay out on the porch of the beach cottage with a gentle breeze rocking me back and forth. Life changingly peaceful. The closest to a moment of "zen" i can possibly achieve.

Enter Hurricane.

So Hurricane took out my porch. Sometime in between when they built the home and the Hurricane they enacted a law preventing the building of porches/decks/additions within a certain amount of feet from the beach. Anyone with a structure within range after the placing of the law was grandfathered into being able to keep it. After Sandy came and wiped out some peoples porches, they were told they couldn't rebuild them if they weren't far enough away.

So, that's when we started researching the area. After a bunch of internet searches, and looking up Kure Beach's history (It's in NC), we found out that our house was the very first house ever built on the beach. And this guy Mr. Kure actually owned the whole beach at one point.

We filled a bunch of papers and BAM. House was declared a historical landmark. Which apparently allowed for the prevision of maintaining the property as it was original constructed.

We got our deck back bitches.

TL;DR - The Man tried to take away my hammock, got it back.