That does not sound like a very fun project.

My dad is in the middle of having a garage built. He has 4 acres of property of wooded land. He had two of the 1 acre lots combined and built there house on it. He left the other 2 acres as vacant land. He was interested in putting a garage on the vacant land. The village said that he had to construct a house on the vacant land to go with the garage within two years. Basically, they do not want a garage sitting on an empty lot. So, he had to get all of his lots combined so that he has a house on the lot and is able to build another garage. Now he has to ppay taxes on 4 acres of residential land with a house on it. I would not like to pay that tax bill. Anyways, not a big deal. He was going to put up a metal type garage, 2 cars wide 2 cars deep. The village inspector comes out and tells him that because the garage is going on the same lot as the house it has to be the same type of construction, same color siding and the same set back as the house. So now he has a 24' X 50' stick built garage with siding going up. It has a full attic with a dropdown staircase to store all of the christmas decorations. His $20,000 project has just hit $65,000.