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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Depends on your definition of fun. In Cologne, for example, you cannot turn over a stone without finding something archeological, aged 1000 or 2000 years. Nice for historians, but HELL for anyone who wants to build something.

Because if you dig your foundations and you find something, you have to stop immediately, report it to the authorities, wait for archeologists to take care of it until they give you a GO again (which can hold construction for a long time), and on top of that, you'll have to pay the archeologist team, too. And if you "forget" to report it and they find out (not finiding anything is actually suspicious in that town!) they'll hit you with fines that make the idea of month-long delays and archeologists bills look quite cheap in comparison.

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

And if everyone knows this, and everyone does it this way, its not really an issue. It is just real estate developers complaining they can make mare and faster profits if these rules did not exist. Because fuck put culture and history amirite?

Its good that not following these rules is so heavily fined that the fines actually do something. This is how fines should work. If its cheaper to eat the fine, companies would just do so and ignore the rule.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I know this is right and important, but I think the bill for the archeological survery should be footed by the government. I've read of a case in the papers some time ago where a young couple wanted to build their home and suddenly they had a >50k bill for preserving a Celtic something where their basement should have been.

[-] Baahb@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

The bill, and the hotel for the family that can no longer use their home?

[-] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 6 points 6 months ago

Still beats digging your foundations and finding a WW2 bomb.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

That is much better than anything historical. The job is usually finished within a few hours, and it's free.

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