{"id":40,"date":"2016-03-08T20:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2016-05-11T01:07:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T01:07:57","slug":"the-backstory-planning-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/08\/the-backstory-planning-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Backstory: Planning & Permits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Once the historical report<\/a> was complete, we had to go before the Historic Landmarks Commission and get the HSSR approved.\u00a0 Getting it approved meant that the HLC agreed that there was no significant historical value to the house (other than the wall out front) and we were clear to tear it down.<\/p>\n

Now, here is where it gets messy.\u00a0 The HLC initially approved the report but couldn’t give final approval because the historians needed to do a slight update to the report.\u00a0 In the meantime, we submitted our proposed plans to the Single Family Design Board (the planning board tasked with insuring neighborhood compatibility).<\/p>\n

We ran into resistance from one member in particular of this board who seemed to work behind the scenes with members of the other board to undermine our project.\u00a0 What followed was another 18 months and 6 or 7 more meetings before one or the other board.\u00a0 Ultimately, the good sense of others board members prevailed and we got approval from both boards.<\/p>\n

Permitting, while not particularly inefficient or problematic, took another 12 months.<\/p>\n

The entire process, from the start of the historians work to having the permit in hand, took almost three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once the historical report was complete, we had to go before the Historic Landmarks Commission and get the HSSR approved.\u00a0 Getting it approved meant that the HLC agreed that there was no significant historical value to the house (other than the wall out front) and we were clear to tear it down. Now, here isRead more about The Backstory: Planning & Permits<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}