SEQUIM — For more than a month, Jim Connell and his fiance Michelle Karns believed they couldn’t live in their dream home at the end of River Road.
A tag posted on the outside of their home Jan. 11 by a county building official said the building couldn’t be inhabited until it had been inspected.
A warning notice said non-compliance could result in a 90-day jail sentence.
It also advised residents to call the county building department for an inspection.
Connell didn’t believe that option was available to him, so he’s been waiting for something else to happen.
The interior of the house wasn’t damaged when the rain-swollen Kinkade Creek ran underneath it, but he says county building official Jerry Hight told him he couldn’t live there because of future danger of flooding.
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