Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly

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‘An atrocious wrongdoing’: Florida neighborhood floods regularly after homeowner plugs its only drainpipe (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 3 months ago by SeattleRain@lemmy.world to c/housing_bubble_2@lemmy.world

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[–] Fosheze@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I kinda want to know the details on this one before I make any judgement because my dad was in a similar situation a while back. A new subdivision went up around his property and they installed stormdrains. The subdivision owner asked if they could run the drains through my dads property which he had no issue with. Instead they decided to have the drains empty in the ditch surrounding his property meaning he now has a mosquito breeding moat around most of his property year round.

Now my dad didn't go plug the storm drains, he just copes, complains, made life as dificult as possible for that subdivision owner from then on, and eventually threw a party when they went bankrupt. But I wouldn't be surprised if this news story is just another subdivision owner deciding to fuck somebody except that somebody decided to do something about it.

[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah he fucked up. There should be a drainage plan for the build.

If a drainage plan isn't required for the build in your area, he should have asked for it before agreeing.

In my area, any new structure with a foundation has a drainage plan page or grading marked on the drawings submitted for permit.