"Insanity"

The next steps....

1. Wait for the Bureau of Street-Use and Mapping to process our endorsement letters.
2. Bureau of Street-Use and Mapping will send required paperwork to the Department of Public Works @ City Hall
3. Department of Public Works will then put paperwork inline to get a hearing date.
4. Hearing Date gets assigned.
5. Notification is sent out 10 days prior to hearing to all neighbors within 120 feet of our lot.
6. Our case is brought before the Supervisors of the Department of Public Works.
7. Supervisors review case and listen to any public comments.
8. Hell freezes over

9. We get our Permits.

As of right now, we are on step 1.

And as my bother put it so simply, "Insanity"

Freaking City

1/9/09 - Submit First Set of Plans to the city

1/13/09 - Plans Sent to the correct department

2/2/09 - Plans put on hold pending "Historical Review"

2/14/09 - Information submitted for "Historical Review"

10/7/09 - Plans for changing the facade approved

10/9/09 - Building Plans sent to "Building Plan Review Service"

10/14/09 - Building Plan Review Service start looking at plans

10/15/09 - Structural and Architectural Plans Approved

10-19-09 - Plans sent to "Street use and Mapping"

10-20-09 - Put on hold Pending sidewalk encroachment drawings

10-25-09 - Submitted encroachment drawings

2/1/10 - Encroachment drawing "approved as noted"

2/11/10 - Encroachment drawing resubmitted

2/15/10 - City Changes its mind on encroachment. - Plans put on hold Pending 51% sign off from all neighbors within 120 feet of each corner of our lot.

3/9/10 - We get our 12th sign off (54%) from neighbors and submit to City

3/15/10 - Waiting for City to set Court Date to allow for neighbors to Protest

1 Year, 2 Months, and 6 Days Later - Still waiting for final approval.

What else can they throw at us?

So we start again...

Although we have yet to get our permits, we have started the work on the lower unit...

It is strangely reminiscent of the upper unit...

Pictures courtesy of Jessica Sweeney

http://quotidian-photography.blogspot.com/

637 Central

These are a set of pictures we took for a baseline comparison shots for the end of the renovation of the lower unit.

A Brief Comparison

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We have Approval!!!!!

Its Official!

The Plans for the garage and new living room have been approved.

It only took 10 Months and cost us about 3 times what we hoped for... but the city is going to let us put the garage in.

Next step is getting our structural and MEP drawings created and submitted.

My guess... by the end of the year we are under construction!

Furnace Update

If you look back.... way back... to my 2nd post on January 18th I promised a "Central Heating Update coming soon." Well Soon is here... finally.

Obviously this project got pushed to the back burner. We had to get some other stuff done before we could continue with our heating... then summer came and we didn't need it so we kept ignoring it...

Now... the mornings are getting colder and its time to finish.

To start with, we cut in the grilles in all the rooms.

Look above above Alec's head in this photo

We have cut in a grille in every room.... but I don't have pictures.

So, next up is getting the furnace ready.

We cut in our taps and mounted our plenum's.

I have basically finished running the gas so all we have to left to do is run the electrical and run the flex duct to the grilles.

Some Trim Work

Next up, its time to get the living room painted.

The bulk of the work here was in repairing the massive amount of trim in the room.

Enjoy

Before:

During:

After: