Sit, Listen, Ugh!

We have gotten through a few more steps of the building process. One of those steps being finding a surveyor. I made phone call after phone call getting prices and then Chris made the decision on who we would be using. After I made the phone call to Joe Burgett to go ahead and survey the land he was out within the week to draw the property lines. To me it was a bunch of lines on the paper when we saw the plans and all looked good but how quickly I learned it was so much more. It actually took me back to high school when Mr. Lyter was teaching us topo maps and what they meant and how to read them. Still to me it was lines on the paper because I knew what the land looks like. Anyhow...to save us $500 I made the choice to go to the township meetings ourselves. So here goes the story...

Just to rewind a little when you are going through the subdivision process you have to go to a planning commission meeting and then a supervisor meeting and they will approve or deny the subdivision of the land. How hard can it be to go and sit through a meeting....right? 

So the third Monday of the month (November 21) myself, Chris, and my dad loaded up and drove the mile that it is to the township planning commission meeting. We had sent 7 plans out to the members already so they all had our plans and were supposed to review them. We were 3rd to arrive and from what I understood they go in the order that you arrive, not the case. First, they had to wait on 2 more people to get there in order to vote on anything so while they waited for those people to arrive they started doing building permits. Boring. 

I quickly realized Chris and I didn't bring any money and I started to panic thinking we would have to write a check. So I drove home while they were continuing with building permits. Made it back just as the other members of the planning commission were meeting. So I sat. And sat. And sat. Yup the surveyor that was there representing his peeps took FOREVER! The committee was just going on and on about everything he needed to change and what was wrong. I felt one word...Panic. Yup, so I wanted to save $500 and what if everything on ours was wrong and we can't answer the questions. Panic. 

It was our turn...Everyone was familiar with the plans and there were 3 things that they pointed out that needed changed. Nothing big, no hard questions, except for one thing. Yup it's still haunting us...the driveway. The road isn't posted at 35mph so we need 500 ft of site distance for our driveway and where we have it doesn't work. Ummm....not our problem? I'll be happy to post the road myself but it doesn't work like that. So the committee said we need to make a decision-move the driveway or go to the supervisor meeting and tell them to post the road. Even though the driveway was the issue we got an address and were approved to move on the supervisor meeting. PHEW! 

So the first Monday of December we will load back up and drive the 1 mile and go to the supervisor meeting where we will fight to get the road posted at 35MPH so we can put our driveway where we want it. Everything has gone as planned except for one thing....the driveway. So here it to hoping that after the 5th of December the driveway issue will be resolved and we can keep on keep on.