I would suggest you contact Walt Spak, who's likely still on this list. Are
you out there Walt?

Walt has a warehouse that we think of as a "home base" for our Pittsburgh
Vanagon Club. 3 stories tall with drive in access to the first and 3rd
floors. He's build a beautiful apartment into the 3rd floor and racks of
vanagon parts on the first floor. It's a very cool style of living I hope to
look into in my future. There's no replacement for displacement when it
comes to owning lots of things..... Buy a warehouse!

In my experience, warehouse space is awesome for working on vanagons. Heck
you can even pop the top indoors!

-Craig
'85GL turned WESTY
BOSTIG in the trunk

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:10 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> At 12:52 PM 12/13/2009, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>
>> Antonio. Any thoughts on pre-reqs that a seller may go for that will allow
>> garage/work space, living areas, and possible commercial enterprise
>> without
>>
>
> The machinist I used to know who lived in his machine shop did it
> surreptitiously.  Likewise when (long story) he had to kip in the
> foundry across the street -- he had to pretend to be the night
> watchman or some such.  Then he came to live at my house (I told you
> it was a long story -- live power lines knocked down with one of his
> trailers, an angry roof-truss mfr and an even angrier mob guy who
> took direct action), and I was ready for him to go a long time before
> he was.  ;-)  As everyone who knew him said, "A great guy but he uses
> up his friends."
>
> So you might want to check the zoning regulations...
>
> :)
> d
>