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Thanks for your support! I read your thread with interest. We are past it now, so we move forward. We are on about 27 acres but one end of our property is along a county road. Pretty easy to spot.

There is still alot to do. I want to run a slab 20 feet out the sectional door for a place to park. I need to get my radiant heat system installed. I need to make and install about 20 light fixtures - some vintage gooseneck barn lights, some industrial pipe lights, etc. I have to get the...

Next was finishing up the electrical hookup and some detail work, adding some doors, and I still has some design ideas to figure out - for the top part of one end. I didn't want both ends of the building to look alike. I decided to do the mushroom board on one end up to the top of the walls...

Then we add the insulation to the walls and put up the drywall. I wanted a wainscot of some sort to take the beating that lower garage walls can take. So I was searching reclaimed wood outlets in the area and I found a great source. These were old cedar wood fence boards that were real...

So I find a local, like down the road local, craftsman to build the trusses. We use some black iron portland bolts and lift them up. They are real heavy. They look good against the mushroom board.

Back to the motherload: My design has five truss beams in the plans. I am looking for the correct material. The design calls out for 6 X 8, but that just doesn't seem the right scale. I need something bigger and I want something that looks old. I am hunting around the place where I got the...

The exterior windows go in and the building get sided with cedar board and batten. The weather is great and we are making serious progress now. The window sizes and placement relative to the eaves are for passive solar based on this location. In the winter, a low sun will strike the concrete...

It is about this time I bring in the electricians to wire up per my plans. A new subpanel and wiring go in. Man did I over think this part. I spent hours walking around the space visualizing what I might be working on and where. I put provisions for a lift, the radiant floor heating, wall...

We decide that we will put a door between this garage and the small apartment at a location near that window on the end wall. We have an old weathered exterior door that will work perfectly. We also decide to keep the ceiling beam just above that window. We figure to hang lighting or a sign...

Now it's time to start ordering and planning for the completion of this garage. I order the windows (passive solar specs), the garage door (a http://chiohd.com model 5600 painted tan made to look like a barndoor), the Liftmaster 8500 torsion bar lift, some local solid wood man doors, some barn...

During the winter I put more visits to the county office and each time I go there the want more money and they come up with new issues (setback, electrical, header beam cert for the garage door, etc.). Each visit puts a crowbar into my wallet for some kind of fee. Sometime in late December I...

The floodplain review shows the shop is outside of the floodplain and the FEMA data is inaccurate for most of my property. The LOMA is submitted and I wait it out. In the meantime, we roof and we seal the structure for winter.

Yikes - where did the time go? So I go down to the county office and plead ignorance. They tell me I need a floodplain review done, and Permit fees paid. So far there is no talk of penalties. Off I go to see about that floodplain review. I start calling around and our river has never been...

That could certainly do it except there was quite a time lag between the two events. I am shortening up the timeline here in this thread. There was about a 2 year gap when we layed low between leaving the book and getting the violation. Bczygan, I don't think they can require demolition...

It is now fall and we have the framing pretty much done. We covered the 3" vertical of foam outside the foundation with some custom pieces of metal powdercoated dark brown. Then we tyvek the outside. That is right about the time that the county inspector makes a surprise visit. I wasn't...

After the appropriate concrete waiting period, we started framing with 2 x 6 and added scissor trusses. I wanted a 15X8 sectional door at the approach end. I calculated where the windows should be placed for passive solar using an online resource.

The pour finally finished, and I was getting pretty excited. This was a major step to be sure...we are now about 3.5 years after the initial "you can't build there" declaration from the county.

I agree. I would not advocate anyone else trying to sneak in a project. I did though. I have found some success in my life that way, so my attitude was that the most I could lose was some money and time. I decided to go ahead and try. I settled on 22 x 48. The width was set by road...

So to make the best of a situation, I think that this is the way it is and decide to go ahead and try to live with the small garage concept. I find that a four post lift will work with an inch to spare. Time to fill it up:

and while this is going on, I am making several trips to Home Depot 45 minutes each way. I keep all of my notes and ideas in a composition book of the type I used in high school growing up. It is one of those bound $0.99 things you can get at Target or Walmart or just about anywhere. In it I...