After a fair amount of back and forth with the city the plans are finally approved. The building is the largest possible to design as an unlicensed architect: 4 units and 2 stories. The two story rule was really tricky since the building steps up the hill. At first the plan checker said it was 4 stories! After perusing the definition of a basement and tapping an obscure code rule known as the "split building rule" which was recommended by Jay Vanos, the building is officially two stories. On to construction...

tags: plans, bureaucracy

Approved by the City so we can start renting this sucker and actually make some money.

tags: bureaucracy

So I was finally assigned the addresses for the project. They are 4774 - 4799 Rock Row Drive. They start in the 4700s based on the city grid, but why 25 addresses for a 15 home project? Because the guy that assigns addresses at the city is obsessed with numerology (what better job for an obsessive numerologist than assigning addresses). He sums each address and if the number is not in accord with his beliefs he wouldn't let us use it. So the project numbers skip in several places. For example we have 4774, 4776, 4778, 4780 and then it skips to 4786. Apparently 21 (the sum of 4 + 7 + 8+ 2) is cursed.

tags: bureaucracy