Call your permit department for your city or county. Here in Virginia the magic words are "I'm building a POLE BARN..." A pole barn, if I understand correctly, uses poles set in the ground so it is more stable. Here in Suffolk in the agriculture zones we don't need a permit for pole barns. I just had to be aware where my septic tank and drain field were. I've called the utility company (Miss Utility?) to mark all the lines on my farmette. My back triangle is utility free, so I can sink fence poles and barn poles ALL over the place, lol.
Look inside your phone book and find the company that marks your lines. Tell them they need to mark your entire property because you don't know exactly where you want that barn YET. It depends upon the buried lines, duh! I also said I was planning to plant a bunch of trees, but I couldn't give any exact locations because I had no clue what utilities run in my front yard (phone and power, opposite sides I've learned).
See, you're lucky! You found BYC and people that have already done this stuff can help you. I muddled around for about a year before my brother started sending me BYC links.
Good luck!
Look inside your phone book and find the company that marks your lines. Tell them they need to mark your entire property because you don't know exactly where you want that barn YET. It depends upon the buried lines, duh! I also said I was planning to plant a bunch of trees, but I couldn't give any exact locations because I had no clue what utilities run in my front yard (phone and power, opposite sides I've learned).
See, you're lucky! You found BYC and people that have already done this stuff can help you. I muddled around for about a year before my brother started sending me BYC links.
Good luck!
. Hopefully you can find him or the person/people that did this. It's odd that the small ones are stolen. None of my big birds were taken, and I haven't read of anything else being stolen just silkies. Once again sorry for your loss. 
