Q. I had work done to the front steps of my house and the mason said that the columns weren’t really doing anything.
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Monte Leeper
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9/13/12
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Q. I own a one-story building with mixed uses. I have adequate parking. There are two eating places, one that serves ices and a full restaurant.
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Monte Leeper
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9/6/12
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Q. After a repaving project along the county road we live on, we’ve had nine floods in five years. We’ve appealed to Nassau County to redo the work, which raised the crown of the road.
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Monte Leeper
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8/30/12
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Q. I’ve read your column each week for several years. How did you get started writing it? And are the questions made up or are they real questions from readers?
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Monte Leeper
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8/23/12
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Q. My daughter owns a house with a large plot of land. She and her husband would like me to build a mother-daughter addition. Help.
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Monte Leeper
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8/16/12
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Q. I just can’t believe that my building department won’t let me park in my front yard. I have a one-car garage and want to enlarge my driveway to park my cars off the street.
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Monte Leeper
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8/9/12
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Q. I know I need an architect because we want to take down walls and make our rooms flow into each other better. In talks with our building department, I get the impression that they don’t require any permission to do interior work, just for the outside of the house.
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Monte Leeper
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8/2/12
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Q. We have a leaking foundation in our new house. The builder says the problem is caused by our patio, though they do admit that because the house was built in sand, it didn’t require tar waterproofing because it’s concrete, and the patio slopes to the house, so water gets in.
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Monte Leeper
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7/26/12
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Q. We’re putting in a pool this summer, and the permits are taking a lot longer than we were told they would. Now we’re being held up by a problem with fences.
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Monte Leeper
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7/19/12
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Q. You wrote recently that you haven’t done a medical office since 1990, when the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, but you did my medical office and several others I looked at before I hired you. You should correct that statement.
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Monte Leeper
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7/12/12
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