Reminds me of my neighbor who was Iraqi and his building projects. I came home from work one day and he had ripped the peaked roof off of his garage. A few days later I saw that a truck had delivered a large bundle of redwood lumber. So I asked him his plan and he told me he was going to build a deck on top of his garage. I immediately had visions of a large mass casualty event of Iraqis and Armenians due to a collapse.
I knew that no way would the 2x4 walls of the garage support that structure and told him if the city approved his plan it was all good even though the deck would look right down on our bathroom window and other rooms. A few days later the bundle of redwood was gone and he put a flat roof on the garage that leaked like a sieve.
