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permit to put a mobile home on my property
permit office will not allow me to put a mobile home on my property for my mother -n-law to live in without having 100 ft of road frontage. same last name, same family..we own 200 acres. Is this correct? She does not want to live with us.
Asked on May 19, 2009 under Real Estate Law, Tennessee
Answers:
B. B., Member, New Jersey Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 14 years ago | Contributor
In most places, there are zoning regulations, that do put limits on what you can and cannot do on your land. Each town or county is divided into different zoning districts for different kinds of uses and so forth, and each district will have rules for land in that district. Road frontage requirements are very commonly included in these rules. The permit officer can tell you how to get a copy of the rules, usually for a small fee.
You might think that with 200 acres, you ought to be able to put a double wide out there, it won't bother anybody. And in the end, you might be able to do that, but you'll probably have to go before a zoning or land use board with an application to let you do that, for what's usually called a variance or exception.
There's a fair amount of work involved in those applications, and it often isn't a do-it-yourself sort of process. You also might have some other alternatives, based on how the land is laid out and the rest of the local land use rules. So you really need to talk to an attorney who does this sort of work in your town. One place to find lawyers who can help you is our website, http://attorneypages.com
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