AboutPeter M. Elliott Expertise First response to queries regarding extensions of time, variations orders, site instructions and payment using FIDIC and other forms of Conditions of Contract, based on English Law, and derivatives only.
Experience Value . . .
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do.
The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. It can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it's well to add something for the risk you run.
And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.
. . . John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
"We are too poor to buy something cheap"
.Romanian Proverb 2002
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George Herbert (English poet 1593-1633)
I said it in Hebrew, I said it in Dutch,
I said it in German and Greek:
But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
That English is what you speak!" Hunting of the Snark - Lewis Caroll
Match your presentation to the reader!
The joy of food lasts but an hour, of sleep but a day, of a woman, but a month, but the joy of a building lasts a lifetime. Syrian proverb.
Comments and observations leading to improvements in the translation of FIDIC Red & Yellow books into Romanian prior to approval by FIDIC (reference 'Preface to the Romanian edition')
Question My name is Lee Cichon and I live in the Chatfield Heights subdivision by
Chatfield and Wadsworth in southwest Denver. Richmond homes built the subdivision over the past
3 years. There are 2 very large billboards in our neighborhood that Richmond
homes said would be taken down after construction was complete. It has been
complete for six months now and they are still there. One of the billboards
is 4 feet away from my neighbors roof and they destroy our views--not to
mention the fluorescent lights that are on until midnight every night. The
HOA that controls our neighborhood knows nothing so I called the company
that manages the billboards, Mile High Outdoors, and they said they would be
coming down-in 2015! I would like to know if there is anything I can do to
get them removed? Petitions, etc? I don't know where to go with this
question so any push in the right direction
would be greatly appreciated.
Answer HI Lee,
this question relates to planning control laws, or zoning, rather than construction law, and your remedies would be through the planning control authorities. the first thing to clarify is whether or not the billboard has planning approval, the terms and the duration of that planning approval. if the owner does not have or has exceeded their planning approval, then get the appropriate authorities to apply the law.
If the billboard is legal, then you only have public pressure and media comment to get the board removed. You could try a case for light pollution, if the lights are on late at night or public nuisance, I am not good on the relevant laws for your area. search the web for similar cases and see what success they had.
