It wont get any better till you leave Kalifornina
I am going through something similar with the City of Santa Clara. Painfully slow to get a “small” commercial project permitted.
I think the architect (I assume an architect)is perhaps short changing you.
Probably low balled you and everything becomes an extra. All the plans I see list the materials along with a colored drawing of the proposal.
I fell for you. Trying to build anything in this state is hard. Architects that know only what the book show. Inspectors that nip pick the smallest stuff and don’t have the knowledge to check the big stuff. Owners that expect the world while cutting every corner possible. Just let me insulate the damn building and be done with it. Gotta Love the Bay Area.
Nothing embarrasses (and gets rid of) insane planning commissions like being outed in public.
Even if there's no direct appeal to the city council, almost every city council has public address time, use it, bring your roof and paint sample, and list the requirements that are being put on you, as well as the additional time for a very simple addition.
What’s `VOC’?
Indeed. It is why I now am a proud resident of north Georgia
2-3% state income tax
Reduced property tax
Lower gas price (up to $0.75 per gal. lower)
Lower restrictions on property modifications (such as you discuss here)
Better weather (Oct. to May is great! July/Aug not as bad as feared)
great restaurants
Golf........excellent (except my score!)
Wow how things have changed. In 1980 we restored the Italianate Victorian farm house on Bascom near Dry Creek Road and placed it on the National Record of Historic Places. All the powers at Campbell City Hall were quite helpful.
If we did it now it would probably be a pain in the ass.
We left the area for good in 98.
We’re in southern Utah now.
oh brother i feel your pain. we’re just east of you.
I had to submit [what a perfect word] plans to the planning commission in Menlo Park to build a house 13 years ago. What an ordeal that was.
My sympathies.
Come to Alaska! Freedom in huge quantities!
“A pox upon all their houses! “
Government control of private property was one of the primary tenets of Hitler’s fascist Germany. People were allowed to own private property provided its use advanced the goals of government. Those goals could change from day to day because the laws governing private property were vague and could be interpreted differently by various bureaucrats.
You are living in a fascist state.