Sunday, May 18, 2008

Demo and site prep

Pictures of the demolition -- note the cut-down trees, which were diseased Eucalyptuses. Several neighbors later commented they were glad these had gone as they were always shedding and made the whole area look messy.

Also, the first photo's perspective makes the site look a lot narrower than it is.



Thursday, May 15, 2008

Obtaining planning permission

Our plans were finally submitted at the end of March -- about a month later than we had hoped -- and while Culver City states 10 business days for review, there was inevitably some "back and forth" and then a delay because of our patio cover plans.

This came about because the covered patio "structure" intrudes into the setback area on the house frontage street and we had assumed that this would not be of concern because it would be behind a fence. So we had to submit some supporting documentation related to why we need to do this because of our triangular lot.

So it was mid-May before we were finally signed off and folks who are experienced in this stuff tell us that getting it in 6 weeks was still really fast.