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Jennings County resident seeks permit and rezoning to legalize pole‑barn dwelling
Summary
A Jennings County resident told staff the family converted a pole barn into two rental units without realizing a permit was required and said the property must be rezoned to multifamily for a mortgage to close; the resident said safety fixes and a $3,900 window bid are already in progress.
Speaker 1, a Jennings County resident, asked county staff for help legalizing living space they said was built inside an existing pole barn so their parents could live there in 2014 and later so the resident could rent parts of the structure.
“We, we did not know that we had to have a permit to build inside of an existing structure, until I come and talked to Miss Marie, about trying to get 2 addresses there,” Speaker 1 said, describing separate downstairs and upstairs leases.
Speaker 1 said the downstairs is rented under one lease with three…
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