When we put a new porch on our house about, oh, ten years ago, the building inspector kindly informed us that our concrete stairs had to be brought forward so that the mandatory three foot landing could be built/paid for by us. While that alone would be annoying enough, to make matters worse, there is a basement window near the ground less than three feet from the current base of the stairs, so we can't bring it forward three feet because then we'd be illegally blocking the window. We also can't move it to the one side, because there's a gate fence within three feet of the side of the stairs, and bocking that would be illegal as well. We can't leave it there, and we can't move it. The building inspector admitted that he had no idea how we were supposed to do it, but "kindly informed" us that it must be done anyways, regardless of whether it's actually possible or not.
We haven't touched the stupid thing since. I have
NO respect for building inspectors.