Discovery of 25-Year-Old Error Reveals Family's Home is Illegal

Updated 1/12:
The county has approved a variance for the LoGrande home. The details are here.

Originally posted 12/22:
The LoGrande family home in the Mount Vernon district is the subject of this week's Fairfax Extra cover story. A recent discovery of a 25-year old mistake has revealed that the house is seven inches below what the county requires for a building in the flood plain of the Potomac River and that the house as it stands is an illegal structure.

By  |  January 12, 2006; 3:48 PM ET  | Category:  Government , Neighborhoods , People
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