Permit for RV Barn

cbr46 wrote:
Some very creative ideas! One we're liking is to add on to the house. Need to check the codes on that, but is a viable option.

One solution would have the RV share the longside garage wall, turn the garage into a workshop, then extend 3 garage bays onto current garage. Make a little U-pad around the new garage and voila!

Best,
- bob

If you rely on creative solutions from the internet you are most likely going to be in for a whole lot of heartache. Planning, zoning, building inspectors and code enforcement officers take their jobs seriously. They are not going to just go away because you build some third world addition onto your house and then say you are using that square footage to justify your barn. They aren't going to just nod in agreement if you claim your building isn't what it truly is. They aren't automatically going to approve it as a "garage" just because it share a couple of square feet of wall with your home. Those departments likely have budgets in the millions of dollars. They also have unlimited access to an in house civil attorney paid for by your tax dollars. They can fight you for decades if they so desire and tie up your property with liens, judgments and assorted other legal items.
The correct way to handle this is to take your plans to the proper authorities and get it approved BEFORE you buy the property. If the present owner won't help or won't delay until it is approved, run, don't walk, away. The odds are that owner knows what can and cannot happen and he won't want to tie up his property waiting while you tilt at windmills. So if he balks, there is probably a message you should be receiving.
Once you sign on the dotted line, you are an owner. All the free advice from the internet won't help you get your building approved. That takes a real live bureaucrat, not an online "expert" who slept at the Holiday Inn last night.