Child Labor

The new gate is painted

Make way

for a driveway.

Before...

During...

After...

Building a gate to keep the creatures in the pasture is next.

Then tree removal. That should really get the gossip flying in the neighborhood.

Construction documents by the end of next week.

July

View of the property looking towards Mount Olympus.

Congratulations It's a...

Subdivision. June 24th 2010, 1570 days after we decided to start this process we finally have the Pearce Subdivision recorded with Salt Lake County. It was a huge battle but finally it is finished. Patience is virtue, I guess. We are now in the process of setting up the waterline excavation and getting ready for construction documents from the Imbue team. With any luck will be building a house this August. The latest rendering, dog and chicken included.

Steak-Out

well it was really a BBQ with the staking-out of the floor-plan. Beautiful evening in Holladay. The house was set and we got to see where the front door was, the master bedroom view and the driveway. The length of the of the house was amazing to see. We were also surprised to see the size of our front yard. Paradise.

Floorplan

Sweet. Adult area, public area, kids area.

Schematic signed off

We finally signed off on schematic design. Interior walls might move around but the basic floor plan is set. The waterline engineering is almost complete with a few more tweaks. The final plat was presented today to the City of Holladay. We are hoping everything is in order and we can move ahead on getting all the paperwork finished. It has seemed along time coming.

Walk The Line

Spent the morning walking the proposed waterline with the engineer from Bush and Gudgell. Close to 830 feet of waterline must be installed to bring in fire protection to the new lot. On the design front things are getting closer to being done with schematic design. Our best guess for construction plans is July 15th. With any luck we will be breaking ground in August of this summer.

Preliminary Plat Approval

Finally a meeting the angry neighborhood didn't show up to. Although long the meeting was quit pleasant. Unanimous approval of our subdivision! Hip-Hip Hooray. Pressing forward towards Final Plat now. Wish us luck.

Uprising- We and Dem

= rebellion, and also refers to a killer roots reggae album by Bob Marley.
Just our luck that our soon-to-be neighbors know this concept too and our idealistic desire to nest has turned into a neighborhood upprising. Still not convinced that we have the legal right to access our lot from a public road the fight goes on and has turned into another two weeks of delay. The facts and records are there, a survey was presented with all the legal descriptions. The city engineer was there with similar facts but we are now guilty until proven innocent.

From the Uprising album in the song We and Dem it says

"we no know how we and dem a-go work this out,oy!
we no know how we and dem a-go work it out."