TL;DR: Lot next to mine sold, and it has the same physical address as me. There isn't room (in the numbers) to add another address, so the town's solution is to renumber all the houses on my block.
Longer Version:
We bought our house 2ish years ago - from a person that owned our house and owned/lived in the house next door. She recut all the land to make a full lot in the middle - basically, there were two biggish lots, and now there are three small lots (.33, .33, .4). She sold her home about a year ago, and has been trying to sell the center lot. We wanted to buy it, but just couldn't make it work. It did sell.
When it was sold the real estate listing was 105A, the land record is 103. We're 103 - and the next house down, on the other side lot, where the seller lived, is 105.
I spoke to the person in the zoning/planning office about petitioning to get the number changed. She was very familiar with the lot - and when it was cut into a separate lot, she made a proposal to the town manager to change all the numbers on the block -- reasoning being for 911 and emergencies, most emergency systems have trouble recognizing a letter in an address. The solution was to renumber the entire block. Also, because the post office doesn't like to re-assign existing addresses. The town manager said no - because he didn't want to upset all the people on the block that would have their numbers changed.
If I continue to press to get that number changed (so it isn't mine), the solution is to petition the town manager and all councils that will listen that the entire block needs to be re-numbered -- am I the asshole for doing this? There are about 12 to 14 houses on this block, and they were built as far back as the 50s.
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