The neighborhood was built long enough ago that it has alleys, which means it’s probably not going to have a HOA setting rules and regulations. And Texas is notorious for not having much oversight from a building codes/zoning point of view.
I was thinking more what you said in your first sentence: the fact that it was built so close there suggests to me that it wasn’t done properly – a good contractor would have chosen differently – and when it cracks or otherwise breaks down, guess where that water’s going to go?
You’d have to underpin the garage’s foundation while excavating the hole in the ground. I’d do it in a way that I’d end up with basically a sunk wall that serves both as foundation for the garage and as a wall for the pool.
The Romans did stuff like that 2,000 years ago using concrete reinforced with wrought iron flat bars.
Susiraja literally “wolf border,” the boundary between the capital region and the rest of Finland; the name suggests that rest of the country is wilderness.
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Merely an automatic system. Ancient IP lawyers ranged in the long caves deep in the bowels of the planet tick away the dark millennia. I think they take the occasional pot-shot to relieve the monotony.