We had Ian Scattergood over to the house this morning. He was very knowledgeable and I’m sure he can help if we decide to go the route of bringing the house up to code, but it will cost us about $4k to have him draw up all the plans, plus $2k for permits, plus god knows how much for all the actual work. We just don’t have the money right now so I’m really hoping our councilman can help us. I sent them the inspector findings and they are supposedly going to help us work with the development office. I really don’t know what happens on Feb 18th (that’s the 30 day deadline that the inspector said we have to submit plans, which will certainly not happen)…I suppose it goes to code enforcement, and then who knows how that’ll go. We have about 5.5 months left on our current permit, which they wont sign off because of the addition issue. I dont know where the 30 days comes from. It all just seems so arbitrary. I suppose we could just not do anything until our permit is about to run out then ask for an extension or do the minimum to show that we’re trying, but it’s just so dumb…we shouldnt have to use silly loopholes or delay tactics. We should just be able to get a reasonable person to give us time and understanding…neither of which it seems the city has or is willing to give.
