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Originally Posted by HomrQT
Is there some formal information that you have on that? When I had my house built here in the city of Chicago, the developer working with me said the sky was the limit as long as it meets safety standards. He even joked saying I could be the first one with a castle in my neighborhood.
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Either your developer was lying or it was a different time period, when codes and zoning were unenforced or more relaxed. Take this building, for example, the Broken Angel house in Brooklyn NY. When it was built in the 70s, the neighborhood was a shithole and the city didn't look twice to stop it from being built, even though it violated about every code in the book. It had a minor fire a few years ago, which caught the DoB's attention, who requisitioned the house and had it demolished.
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Which brings me to my next point. Why does folk architecture everywhere always tend to look the same?