oh man... we went out and bought a shed and playhouse made of cedar so our kids could have a GREAT fort to play in. you know, keep them off the streets and out of the parks at night... give them a place to hang out. (our kids are 7 and 12) - so the little one gets to play in it during the day and the teenagers hang out in it at night.

we've been working like crazy on it. the shed is 8' x 6' and we have it beside the house and we put the playhouse 6' x 6' on top of it, cut a hole in the floor and made a trap door and a ladder inside the shed so the kids can go up and down... and we can lock the shed from the inside so the older ones can camp out in it in the summer. we stained it to match the house, put a red border on it to make it just like our house... looks great by the way (not quite finished but almost there)

so today the district rep. comes to our door and says we have to stop work on it and get rid of it.

it has to be 1.5 metres from the property line (that's 5') and there isn't that much room available there (and no where else to put it) we've place it at the top of our driveway beside the garage and there's only 9' between the garage and the fence...

and it can't be over 12' and it'll be about 14' with the roof.

AND even though it's stacked and really a two story playhouse (as they'll use the bottom for a playhouse and then in years to come, we'll use it as a shed when they are done with it) they consider it two buildings and since we have a shed in the backyard... we can only have one more building in the yard!

this sucks! we paid so much $$ for the wood and stain and all the labour we've put into it and now it has to go.

my hubby is going to talk to the district rep next week...

i'm so disappointed for my kids. people across the street have a playhouse with a shed below it that's waaaaaaaay higher than ours... this isn't fair