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Aerial photography and tax assessors reminds me of a story my friend Carne told me about growing up in rural San Luis Obispo.
His family put a travel trailer on the property. Eventually the tax assessor ‘saw’ it from the air and they got a tax bill. They fought with the assessor, made them come out and see it wasn’t a ‘permanent‘ structure. Got the assessment back down. Let a few years go by, then sold the trailer and built their new building on the shadow footprint of where the trailer was.
His family put a travel trailer on the property. Eventually the tax assessor ‘saw’ it from the air and they got a tax bill. They fought with the assessor, made them come out and see it wasn’t a ‘permanent‘ structure. Got the assessment back down. Let a few years go by, then sold the trailer and built their new building on the shadow footprint of where the trailer was.