Say theoretically you own an indestructable plot of land and you build a building, how high can you go until that building becomes no longer your property?

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Depends on what you mean by “own”

    You can build a building as tall as you want, up to the limit of local codes. So you can’t build a 3 mile tall building, no matter how well engineered, because it won’t pass local zoning laws. Nobody can build a building that overhangs your property, because they’d interfere with your personal property, and it wouldn’t pass local zoning laws.

    You can’t interfere with airplanes flying overhead, because that’s an issue with the rights of the government to allow passage and commerce through “your” airspace.

    It gets tricky with people flying balloons, kites, or drones through your property, but typically several hundred feet over any structures are considered shared airspace.

    Of course if they’re flying a drone over your backyard to photograph you in places that would be considered private, that would be a violation of completely different statutes.