Hah!! Great minds think alike Hank. I already tried this route. I would have to have a new survey done for a lot re-configuration. Then my tax's would go up, due to having a seperate lot. I would pay tax's on the individual lot, them pay them on the rest of the property as a seperate lot. I checked into getting the 20 acres, minus the lot, classified and taxed at Ag-Exempt. They will do that if I put at least two cows on the place. I really don't want to be a cowboy. One of the guys on TC has dealt with these idiots too. He suggested that I contact the EPA down there directly, instead of going through the County. I may try that, but then again, I'm alsost skeered to get any more gov officials involved. I already have had a run-in with the DEQ down there. The idiot woman that came out tried to tell Doug and I that the tire tracks made by a back-hoe were "where two streams ran side by side" and made a "creek". I was dumbfounded anyone could be that stupid and have her position.

Sorry to hear about this Tony,you have a lot more patience than I do. It looks like Flordia and the US Govt does not want anymore people in Florida.

I hate to see you spend all your hard earned money on such bull#$%.

Can you get a couple of fake cows like the fake deer you use for target practice. Just keep the EPA people at a distance. Tell them the cows have pretty bad tempers and they shouldn't get too close. Carry a shotgun when they're there, tell them it's in case the cows charge you.

Are you sure that cows are the right thing to keep the EPA people away ? Cows are not really scary, are they ??? lol

Haha... Maybe some goats, and tell them "Careful, they like to hump!"

No they're not real scary but he needs 2 cows to get the lot zoned agricultural which drops the taxes to almost nothing. When you drive through Fl you'll see small strips of land everywhere with some cows on them. People buy the land hoping to sell in the future for a big profit. In the meantime they stick a couple of cows on the land so the taxes are low.

After a week of dealing with some of the most incompetent people I have ever dealt with, I have an Engineered drawing for the County. 1500 bucks for the Engineer to do some calculating and draw a picture. What a rip. I have to put up a 2' high berm, about 600' in length and dig a small pond the total length, about20' wide. There has to be silt filter material all along the banks, 3' in height. After e-mailing and talking on the phone to the the goons at the EPA, i am now 100% sure that they hire the most ignorant people they can find.

Our government at work, makes you proud to be an American doesn't it. You can always tear down the silt fence later if you want.

Heck, then I would have a couple cows and maybe a couple goats to eat the grass. lol

In all this dealing with different agencies, I found out that if I lease the cleared land for baling hay, I can get the Ag-Exempt. I'll be talking to some of the ranchers about that. Also, if I plant blueberries and sell tham at a stand at the road, same thing. I like blueberries.