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re: Drainage issue - pissed off neighbors
Posted on 5/27/20 at 9:37 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 5/27/20 at 9:37 am to SlowFlowPro
typical LC logic. Just build it. Think about it later. I grew up in LC 60s/70s right on 12th st. and south LC was the big boom. Every damn bean and rice field became a development and all that shite past the old "dump" off Country Club was primo acreage. All sitting on a landfill. The area by the casinos will continue to sink. But houses will continue to be built and the neuvo riche will claim them.
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Posted on 5/27/20 at 9:37 am to statman34
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Not sure any have ever been successful in proving it but it would depend on how many lawyers were involved.
You find the right lawyer thr city or whoever approved the designs will be in some how water.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 9:44 am to lsu777
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mother in law and a big reason for this move is she is moving in with us
I think you are going to have much bigger problems in the future than drainage and irate neighbors.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 9:48 am to stout
Yea I'm half of 67 and all of 66.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 9:49 am to stout
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My neighbors (who already live off of Lakeshore) bought a lot in Walnut Grove and his wife won't shut up about it like people should be jealous. I am just thinking about how I wouldn't build on that swampland and pay that much to be next door to the port but to each their own.
WG is kind of a major fail. no clue how they see it that way
i guess Lakeshore doesn't have the same aura around it anymore
Posted on 5/27/20 at 9:53 am to canyon
Good history recollection. When I was eleven years old I got expelled from Mid-City Little League. "Daddy, why is our address flawed because we live north of Broad."
Posted on 5/27/20 at 9:55 am to CharleyLake
I played Mid City. You must have had to play for the short lived North Lake Charles?
I had many friends playing for South Lake Charles and we always competed hard through league and high school.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 9:58 am to lsu777
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I told him he is responsible for draining the water in his lot and so long as I wasn't draining on to his, it wasn't my issue.
This is false
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Told him I would do the best I could when we grade out to help it drain, but his yard is lower than mine and always had been except for a small swell running through the middle of my property.
That swale was part of the existing condition. When you removed that, you are supposed to provide a comparable condition. Basically, you have to provide a replacement for the swale.
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Am I going to have an issue here? Wife is worried sick and driving me fricking nuts about it.
Yes, you are going to fix the problem.
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Tldr: neighbor is pissed because I built a house pad and he can no longer drain on to my property. I do not drain onto his property.
He is right. You impeded the natural drainage of his land. That's basically the same as sending your water his way.
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Oh this bitch is the same neighbor behind me who wrote 8 letters to the city council when my side neighbor built saying they brought in too much dirt.
Well, given your current predicament, maybe the "bitch" was right all along and wasn't the actual bitch in the situation.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 10:01 am to lsu777
I have had to deal with this....as the person on the lower side....get a lawyer to work it out. There are specific surface water laws in place but are tricky and depend on the state. Easier to just get a lawyer to deal with it.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 10:03 am to White Bear
Was it a formal notice on intent and went to a trial court? Would you say that one claiming to be a precarious possessor could not prescribe if the landowner said that he was aware of the servitude and allowed (tacit) permission prior to the thirty year Rx?
Posted on 5/27/20 at 10:04 am to lsu777
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Yea I'm half of 67 and all of 66.
Way too much info for this place. They gonna have your HS grad photo, blood type, your momma's hairdresser's name etc!
Posted on 5/27/20 at 10:05 am to lsu777
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It wasnt high ground, they had dug a swell through the middle of my property. I have reasonable use of the middle of my property.
It's a fricking swale, man. Stop saying swell. You're about to make his bank account swell by being a stubborn arse about the problem you created.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 10:09 am to lsu777
If he wanted his own spillway, he should have beat you to it and bought it himself.
Don't be bullied by this guy.
Don't be bullied by this guy.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 10:10 am to stout
My area wasn't swampland. It was the high ground between the Walnut Grove and Barbe court area.
And to those talking about pricing, greywood is as expensive or more and so is the geddings is just as much and see, nothing in oaks of Hyde so unless you want to pay out the arse for being way out in greywood, not much to choose from of you want to be in a neighborhood.
Walnut Grove is nice but I preferred Terra saint.
And to those talking about pricing, greywood is as expensive or more and so is the geddings is just as much and see, nothing in oaks of Hyde so unless you want to pay out the arse for being way out in greywood, not much to choose from of you want to be in a neighborhood.
Walnut Grove is nice but I preferred Terra saint.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 10:12 am to lsu777
You need to go pull the historical topographical maps or original subdivision outlays and confirm who is the real servient estate. Many times development of lots around an empty one will alter the natural drainage and may conceal the true historical relationship of the lots. In other words, it may actually be the neighbors who are in the wrong here and they just don't know it because they were used to having a vacant lot next door.
All of this should be on file with the Parish and your builder should have consulted these documents when doing the fill plan. Do this NOW because you can bet the neighbors and their attorney are. Be prepared when you get that demand letter telling you to bulldoze your house or else.
All of this should be on file with the Parish and your builder should have consulted these documents when doing the fill plan. Do this NOW because you can bet the neighbors and their attorney are. Be prepared when you get that demand letter telling you to bulldoze your house or else.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 10:14 am to lsu777
Who put that swale through the middle of your property?
Posted on 5/27/20 at 10:14 am to Jester
Well city says your wrong and the city engineers and planning is willing to put it in writing. But I'm gonna talk to him about it and try and come up to a solution.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 10:15 am to fatboydave
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Way too much info for this place. They gonna have your HS grad photo, blood type, your momma's hairdresser's name etc!
As an SHHS grad I was getting ready to ask the LC guys their graduation year and high school to see if our paths might have crossed in the past. But with OT detectives lurking I have thought better of it.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 10:18 am to DevilDagNS
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All of this should be on file with the Parish and your builder should have consulted these documents when doing the fill plan. Do this NOW because you can bet the neighbors and their attorney are. Be prepared when you get that demand letter telling you to bulldoze your house or else.
Dude, calm down if anything I would just put drainage in, nobody is bulldozing a house. The topographical maps were consulted by the city engineers and planning division when I had to submit the storm water run off plan. They approved my plan and are saying he has no claim that I impeded the natural drainage as the Swale was not part of any approved or drainage system and that the drainage for his neighborhood is supposed to flow towards the front.
My lawyer neighbor dealt with this also when he built and city ruled in his favor. He did add a couple drains to help the guy, which I would be more than happy to do except I have the main fiber optic cable running on our adjoining property line.
Posted on 5/27/20 at 10:20 am to fatboydave
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Way too much info for this place. They gonna have your HS grad photo, blood type, your momma's hairdresser's name etc!
Bro Im not worried about that shite. I been on here from the beginning, like sfp, my name and picture have been posted plenty back in the old days. You youngsters always worrying about the OT.
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