I hate over zealous code as much as the next person. I hate illegal garage apartments even more.
Why are they any of your God damned business, as long as they’re not making excessive noise or parking in your driveway? Live and let live.[/quote]
Live and let live is great.
If you’re building an illegal apartment garage to maximize rents after turning the property into a rental, you’re kind of giving a big middle finger to the neighbors quality of life, IMHO. Particularly in neighborhood that are zone R1 and nothing but SFRs.
People bought those neighborhoods to have lower density.
Airbnb is a good example. Cool service and a potential pain in the *ass for the neighbors. Near Disneyland, the SFR tract home neighbors have been basically turned into semi-hotels. Multiple families will pour into a single house. The neighbors have all the standard complaints, noise, trash, parking etc.
Live and let live is great, it starts with respecting why you neighbors are in the neighborhood you’re in. If you rank $$$ above your neighbors quality of life.
And many neighbors are just PITAs. The easement issue that’s been bandied around here with the EPA. The other piss ass fights neighbors want.
