Police in Michigan say a startling discovery was made on the roof of a Michigan grocery store: A woman was living inside the store sign for roughly a year.
There’s a lot of bullshit in zoning to begin with. Why exactly can’t we have mixed commercial and residential areas in suburbia? Slap some apartments on top of grocery stores, bakeries/restaurants, and shops; or is forbidden to have much of anything within walking distance of homes?
Sounds like long enough for her to claim squatters rights and no longer be homeless.
The threshold in Michigan is 15 years of conspicuous, uncontested, and exclusive occupancy. So, no.
The court may argue that the space behind a retail marquee is not a home.
Pure commercial zoning, legally can not be a home.
There’s a lot of bullshit in zoning to begin with. Why exactly can’t we have mixed commercial and residential areas in suburbia? Slap some apartments on top of grocery stores, bakeries/restaurants, and shops; or is forbidden to have much of anything within walking distance of homes?
Because then you wouldn’t need a car
Mixed use zoning is considered the gold standard of city planning, and it’s why housing in Tokyo is so cheap comparatively
I think we both know it is. No one knows why tho.