The city has approved our plans and handed over building permits which means it’s now safe to show the house to you!

In the posts below this one, you can read about a few of the hoops we had to jump through to get this project approved.  Wind Bracing, Environmental Impact, and Heat Loss/Heat Gain Studies are just a few examples, but there was one city issue that could’ve changed the whole look of the house. You see, they didn’t “like” the pitch of our roof – for clarification, the powers-that-be approved the completely flat roofs, they just wanted the top roof changed to a steeper pitch.

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The strike worked* – we have permits!

*This is, obviously, a false statement. The city does things in its own time. We just happened to time our ‘work stoppage’ well.

That’s it – no more tending to the property until the city releases building permits.

(Hard working in-laws photoshopped with protest signs.)