AZ ranch

[BoFuller]

Woo Hoo!! The County just called and I now have a permit!!!
15 months of torture, but they said it is ready to pick up.
Of course, they want an additional $5K in fees, but at last I can get started!!

 

[ENG18LT]

Bo, let me be the first to say congratulations and OUCH. I am astonished at what you have endured to get the permit. My hat's off to you sir, you are the king of patience and perseverance.

I look forward to seeing your progress.

 

[tnmike]

Congrats!! You are far more patient than anyone I know. Now show us some construction.

What was the total cost of the permit?

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Woo Hoo!! The County just called and I now have a permit!!!
15 months of torture, but they said it is ready to pick up.
Of course, they want an additional $5K in fees, but at last I can get started!!

5K$ for what? How much were the original fees? Thanks for warning me about moving and trying to build in Arizona.

 

[BoFuller]

5K$ for what? How much were the original fees? Thanks for warning me about moving and trying to build in Arizona.

Application fee was $400 and Septic was $265 for the county. Then their nitpicking caused me to spend $2500 on the engineer and $2000 for a soils test.
Now the rest of the building permit fee is about $1500, the Road Use fee is about $3500, and then fees for Solar permit, and other misc items. They get you coming and going.

 

[Ken]

Mr. Fuller Glad at last the permit is going to be approved. About 35 pages back typed the pickeness of the building inspectors were when we built the Compressor Sta. East of town and worked on the city airport.

Back when the trains still dumped the ashes and clinkers west of town. to refill with coal and water to get on to Flagstaff.
Sure looking forward to a picture of the first log sitting in place.

ken

 

[mjncad]

Woo Hoo!! The County just called and I now have a permit!!!
15 months of torture, but they said it is ready to pick up.
Of course, they want an additional $5K in fees, but at last I can get started!!

Congratulations on getting your permit Bo. I can sympathize with you as I'm dealing with Gummint inDUHviduals on a CRP (Conservation Resource Program) fiasco for our 35-acre boondoggle east of Denver. Another $5,000 in fees is outrageous. Are you sure you don't live in California?

 

[treetopflyer]

Bo, glad you finally can move forward. I've read every page and even subscribed so I wouldn't miss any updates. I've got 72 acres in Cochise county and am looking build a load bearing wall straw bale home. I hope they are a little more trusting of the engineering data? Keep up the great work, this is an inspirational thread.
Doug in Yuma

 

[schmism]

Application fee was $400 and Septic was $265 for the county. Then their nitpicking caused me to spend $2500 on the engineer and $2000 for a soils test.

soils test is required to determine the perk rate for the soil. depending on soil type will dictate the septic type. this is why the septic needs to be designed by (or approved by) and engineer.

your in AZ were well water is several hundred feet deep (ive read you have to go as deep as 1000' in some places now) not so in IL were "poor" septic systems cause all sorts of problems for shallow wells for livestock and the like.

so no i dont consider EPA requirements for septic systems to be "nitpicking". I like my drinking water you know... drinkable.

 

[BoFuller]

Actually I had my septic put in before the referred to soils test. I have no problem with perk testing. This soils test was strictly for foundation planning. All the local contractors said I had to go down 36 inches, but I had to pay some company to come out and tell me the same thing. Rip off.