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As a believer in civilization, including the rule of law, I submit that Port Townsend Municipal Code Section 12.04.075 addresses this case quite well.

When I moved here eight years ago, the outgoing and incoming Public Works Inspectors told me that I had to leave my right-of-way (ROW) exactly as it was. (We were doing a house lift of our Uptown historic Victorian). I thought that order odd, so I familiarized myself with the above section of code.

I believe it is very well written, and, if I recall correctly, was developed in the 1990s with significant public input. Yet, this code is utterly ignored here. Except for those two PW gents who told me I had to leave mine EXACTLY as it was, which, of course, was incorrect. And cost me many thousands of dollars and a month of my life wasted. The money I don't mind, but the time lost really bugged me, as I have Stage 4 cancer. Those fine gents hammered me like my drill instructors did the first six weeks of AOCS, when they are trying to get one to quit.

Since then, I've seen all manner of subject code violations: electric and water in the City ROW illegally and without permit. Fences, excavations, walls, walkways- you name it! I joked with my wife that I should bundle them all up and install a fenced lap pool in our ROW. That would look pretty funny across from the Rothschild house, wouldn't it?

It'll either be a lap pool or a (lawful) 'for sale' sign, I guess. I don't do anarchy well.

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