The Township calls this a “recurring issue”: people – it seems they mean primarily Amish people – building structures such as horse barns without following the rules.
The current matter involves a man in East Earl Township (Lancaster County, PA), reported a few days ago at Lancaster Online.
A zoning officer reported at a recent Township Board of Supervisors meeting “about a horse barn that ran afoul of the township zoning ordinance.” An Amish man had built “an unpermitted horse barn” on a residential property in the Township.
Two problems
It looks like there are a couple of issues in this case. The first is obvious, and I assume easy to check: the barn was built without a permit:…