Beyond Livid - closing question

In short bought my house a few years ago. Hurricane destroyed my fence. We have a date and deposit down for a new one - received call that permit did not go through.
Original owner did not get permit for fence so it is illegal. I live in an inc. village - so my options are to leave the fence (looks like WT and no we are not allowed to take it down since it is there now) or pull the fence 10ft away from the sidewalk - which cuts way down on my backyard and also like 2 feet from the exisiting fence I have a huge contrete slab patio - sooooooooo that would look so dumb (as 8ft of the patio would be on the outside of the fence)
Should our lawyer have found this out?? Should the town have told me this when I went for all of the original permits?
Should the seller have told this at closing?
I am FUMING and need someone to take it out on
TIA

Re: Beyond Livid - closing question

so, they needed a CO for the fence and did not have one? YES, your lawyer and REA should have found this information out before you closed.

Re: Beyond Livid - closing question

Your attorney would probably not have know this. The title company may have.

I would just file a varience with the town to replace the fence in the location it is in.