Building permit -- good news / bad news

Good new/bad news letter from the county building department on April 28th.

Good news

They’ve reviewed the plans I submitted last week (that’s really good and fast!)

Bad news

They issued a “Letter of Insufficiency” for (a) the septic permit, (b) the approach permit, and (c) water availability. And I have 60 days to resolve these items or risk losing my application.

Also left a couple vmails at the county building department to talk with them about the insufficiency items. Brad called back pretty quickly, and it turns out that I’m in better shape than the email indicated.

(a) Although the septic permit has already been issued, the building department needs the health department to go in to their system and "sign off".  Apparently it's easier to get the DOH to do that if I "nudge" them by email/phone. <sigh> 

(b) The approach permit still needs to be issued. I called and talked to Joby's supervisor to explain the situation. He is going to see if they can do something to expedite the approach application. 

(c) The water availability document was just stuck to another page in the packet I submitted. He found it, so we resolved that immediately.

Net-Net

Brad confirmed that the rest of the plans and engineering look good, so after the septic sign-off and approach permit are settled, I'll have a building permit.