Work Resumes

Well... now that the city has finally given us the ok, we just have a little longer until we actually have our permits.
In the meantime, we started to do the rest of the demolition for the lower unit.
Next weekend we take everything to the dumps... any volunteers?

It's a Cold Day In Hell

Hell has officially frozen over.
We had our hearing with the city today about the sidewalk encroachment.
And... Wait for it.... wait for it.... they APPROVED it!
That should be the last last hoop we need to jump through.
Now it should be a simple process of submitting the paperwork and getting our permits in hand.
So, that means blog updates will be coming more regularly.

Public Hearing Date Set

Well there has finally been some movement on the permits....
Now we have a hearing date set for the 4th week in April.

Wish us luck

"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.