I am one of the people you talk about in this thread, but I used the rules on my side.

Most cities (Phoenix), the pad does not matter.

Any free standing building more then 6 feet from property line and any other structure that is under 100 sq feet roof does not need a permit.  Each city is different and you would need to check codes for your city.

If they build below fence line, HOA does not have a say.

So maybe you should talk with your neighbor and ask what he is making.  It could just be a pad for patio set.
 
Richard

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 8:05 PM, JD Austin <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
I think Victor is on the right track.. 
 "Hey.. I heard through the grapevine that someone already complained to the the HOA and they're just waiting for you to FINISH what you're doing in the backyard before they come down on you along with the city code enforcement people. I wanted you to know before you wasted a ton of money doing whatever you're doing over there so you can get the right permits/etc while you can." 

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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Victor Odhner <vodhner@cox.net> wrote:
Why don’t you just play it straight? The old “don’t tell others, tell us!” policy.

Do you think your neighbor would hate you if you mentioned that you’d heard of people losing a bundle because they had to tear out a non-compliant structure? I’m presuming that your motive really is for them to be spared a major hassle. You could embellish a little, “A friend of mine really got beat up by the licensing people because he screwed up on some stupid details . . . “.

On Apr 30, 2015, at 16:00:40, Keith Smith <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

On 2015-04-30 15:19, joe@actionline.com wrote:
> Every day, I receive email messages sent to me from fake sender email
> addresses, even spam garbage supposedly sent to me from my own email
> address.  How do they do that?
> While I have never done this before, I now have a need to do send an
> email completely anonymously (preferably using our homeowner association
> email address ;) and would like to know how this can be done safely and
> not illegally.
> To briefly explain, we have a neighbor who has poured the foundation to
> build a structure in his back yard (without obtaining a building permit)
> and if he should proceed, this non-compliant structure will cause him
> even greater expense and hardship if he is not prevented from proceeding.
> The size of the foundation makes it very obvious that the structure is
> not in compliance with either city building codes or HOA requirements.
> Needless to say, we want to avoid causing hard feelings with our
> neighbor, so we would like to be able to alert the city authorities
> *anonymously* in order to protect our neighbor from continuing and ending
> up with very costly consequences.
> Regrettably, our home owner's association has taken the position that
> they will indeed take the necessary corrective actions, including
> notifying the city building code department, once the building is built
> and visible from the street; however, they say that they will not take
> any action until the building is built and a "visible" violation has
> actually been committed.  How stupid is that?


Is it against your HOA's CC&R's to pour a slab in the back yard of your house?  Probably not.  If not the HOA would not have a leg to stand on.  Once a structure is visable even if it is just the frame it probably will then fall under your HOA's jurisdiction.

I would assume city code requires a permit to lay down concrete for any use.  At this point it is probably a city issue.


> So, my question is, how can I send an email to the city building code
> enforcement department to alert them of the homeowner's failure to obtain
> a building permit so that the email will appear to be from our homeowner
> association?
> I have already spoken to them by phone, but they will not take any action
> until they receive a formal "complaint" via their online input form which
> requires submitting the name and contact information of whoever is filing
> the complaint.  They say that such reports are best and usually filed by
> HOAs and not by neighbors, to avoid needless conflicts.
> Obviously, I could just wait until my neighbor has spent all the money to
> build the structure and then have a prolonged legal action to force him
> to tear it down, but how much better to protect him from all that
> needless pain and expense?


I would never spoof an email.  Who knows where that can lead.  They will be able to track it back to you anyway, unless you really get fancy.


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