This is why we built our deck (c. 1995) as complete free standing, not attached to the house but butted right up against it. Way easier engineering, therefore permitting. Our town even held a 'Deck Seminar' for people wanting to do it themselves, and the question was answered before it was asked: Why all these regulations, for a simple deck? A: Before these rules, "... anybody with a nail gun could build a deck. And a lot of those failed, sometimes badly."