Reno, I respectfully disagree with you. What I believe happened was this. There are no laws that guard against building where this house was built. If there were, then the town would have never issued the permit to build there.

Now, some have pointed out that there are POCO rules that forbid this kind of building within the easement. That may or may not be true. If there are rules like this than the township that issued the permit should have known this and apparently they didn't.

IMO, this is an issue between the township and the national grid and the victim here is the HO.