The following morning, Rachel requested copies of the pool application, the original fence permit, and the approved site plan from the county.
She also contacted the surveying company to confirm that Carl’s measurements matched the recorded property description.
By lunchtime, we had everything.
The pool application showed a proposed location dangerously close to the actual property boundary. The fence permit, however, showed a different arrangement. It clearly illustrated the fence being placed along the approved line, not eight feet inside my property.
That meant the fence had not simply been installed incorrectly according to the submitted plan.
Something had changed after the permit was approved.
Rachel placed both documents side by side.
“Look at these measurements,” she said.
I leaned forward.
The approved drawing showed the property line exactly where Carl had marked it. Tyler’s actual fence was nowhere near that location.
“Can he really do this?” I asked.
“He can build whatever he wants on property he owns, subject to the rules. But a permit doesn’t give him ownership of someone else’s land.”
For the first time in weeks, I felt like someone was finally looking at the situation clearly.
