I recently had my home re roofed which consisted of lot of dry rot work. I had a company do the work and a permit was pulled. The inspectors where there several times during the process, and they did sign off the final inspection. That same day a inspector went to my neighbors house to do a inspection of his electrical box and noticed my carport was sagging a little and was encroaching the property setbacks. I then received a notice to comply less than a week later. It seems that the carport had been built with no permits and was in violation of contra costa county ordiance sec. 72-6.202. I believe they should have said something then so I could have at least had the contractors correct or do the tear down of the carport if there was a problem.
They (the county)want me to tear the carport down now. I bought the house in 1991 and it had been there when I purchased the house. I did ask about it, and was told it was grandfathered in. I also corrected any saftey issues, and will correct any other issues that may exist.
I did talk to my neighbor and he did not have a problem with it. I would like to correct this issue without having to take down the carport. Would this fall into the grandfather clause?