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Does anyone remember the story of the illegal luxury floating home disguised as a ship maintenance facility?

Late 90’s or early 00’s. Some rich guy commissioned a large floating shed, big enough to fit his yacht inside, and then built a luxury dwelling inside the upper portion, and permitted that as “caretaker’s quarters.” He moored it somewhere that wasn’t zoned to allow such a dwelling, and he might have gotten away with it if he and his wife hadn’t invited Architectural Digest in to do a photo essay of the home. AD was coy, referring to the couple anonymously as “the husband” and “the wife,” but the neighbors twigged pretty quickly, someone snitched to the city, and they had to move the structure to a patch of water that was zoned appropriately. IIRC, that was near the Ballard bridge.

I can’t seem to find the story with the searches I’ve tried.

Anyone?

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