AZ ranch

[BoFuller]

The ears have improved greatly and just in time. January 9 to 16 is our annual ski trip to Big Bear, CA. All 17 of us are here; wife and me, 5 children, 4 spouses, and 6 grandkids! Friday was an awesome day for skiing with a fresh 5 inches of new snow on top of 36 already.

I wrote a letter and submitted it along with my permit application extension request a couple weeks ago. Basically i said that I thought I was being harassed and needed to know who/what was the next step higher. The Chief Building Officer called me a few days later and ask me to come in and have a talk with him. The 23rd of January is the next available date for me, so I'm looking forward to getting this permit process resolved soon.

 

[mjncad]

Good luck with the Gummint bureaucrat. Hopefully he'll actually listen to you and your evidence, and not just give you lip service.

 

[Ken]

Mr. Fuller Good the read your doing better and health is improving.
Think pushing the building inspection up stairs is good idea.
There has to be a good reason it has been postponed
this length of time. Went back to read your 1st. post of finished in 3 years. This after the approvial or purchaseing the property.
On vacations and after retirement used to work building churches . when went to a building location every body was given a job to do and with in a week were close to finishing.
You have a lot of posting friends maybe make a call for help.
All it requires is good food. and trailer camp site.
Has the snow and blowing wind arrived yet .
ken

 

[BoFuller]

Okay. I had a meeting today with the Chief Building Officer and I believe it went well. I expressed my frustrations at the regs and the mountains of documentation (plans are now 15 pages plus 52 pages of backup calculations from the engineer). He expressed his side of the story and I think we both feel pretty good now. I needed several details from my draftsman. And then the drawings have to go back to engineer for stamping, but I'm feeling really optimistic that I can have my permit within a month. He said that when I have everything ready, to give him a call and he'll set up a time to finish it up.

I came on up to the Ranch afterwards and barely made it. The roads are nothing but mud from melting snow. It will be a month before anyone could get back here to start on the foundation anyway, so if I get my plans in a month, I'm happy. This is the best I've felt about the whole permit process in over a year.

 

[BoFuller]

When I got to my trailer, I found that I left 3 cans of Odouls and 3 cans of Coors on a shelf. The Odouls froze, exploded, and made a total mess. The Coors are fine. Lesson learned. Don't ever get any of that non-alcoholic crap again.

 

[ENG18LT]

I am still amazed at the whole permit process, I thought NY was bad.

 

[mjncad]

52 pages of backup calculations on a residence is ridiculous.

 

[Ken]

Good Morning Mr. Fuller I well remember the mud . Used 4 wheel. drive pick-up and with in sight of Seligman it sank to window sill of the truck. Winch was used and broke. So another employee drove from Kingman tied his truck to tree and his winch cable with pulley to back of my truck and then cable tied to tree Doubling the strength of cable.
After getting truck out drove to pumping Sta. and washed with fire hose. There after driving down road would see dirt falling out of frame for a month.
Nothing like good Memories. This was all before the interstate put in.

Glad your able to get permission to build. Kind of chaps the nether lands doesn't it. Did you cover the logs to keep moisture from soaking in. Shouldn't be much bark to worry with removing.

The rouge policeman in Calif. Pictures show they tore the place apart before the fire burned it all.

Keep up the updates it is interesting.
ken

 

[tnmike]

You have far more patience than I do. There is no side to their story that requires 52 pages of calculations other than an overbearing , bloated bureaucracy making work for themselves to no ones greater good.

They need a lawsuit badly.

 

[BoFuller]

There response was that this is the first completely non-kit log cabin they have seen so they have nothing to compare it to. A friend of mine is hoping to build one like it in the near future, so he probably won't have to do the backup calculations since they now have some on file. If this meeting did not go well then it would have been attorney time, but I'd like to avoid that route.