{"id":992,"date":"2013-02-20T06:54:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/?p=992"},"modified":"2013-02-20T06:54:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:54:37","slug":"ode-to-paperwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/ode-to-paperwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Paperwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know if you&#8217;ve been following along, we&#8217;re in the process of renovating a derelict cabin into the new home of Peace Crops. This last week, though, there really hasn&#8217;t been much swinging of hammers or scooping of shovels. Instead, it&#8217;s been more like pushing of pencils.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have forseen this, since in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\" target=\"_blank\">my other life<\/a> I&#8217;m an architect. But the reality is, I don&#8217;t actually do the physical building on many projects, and I&#8217;ve never before owned a home. Wow, there&#8217;s a lot of paperwork! Our property is especially &#8220;blessed&#8221; in this regards, as it was subject to an Administrative Review by the county zoning board for being a nonconforming parcel. In English: when we bought the place, we got a 118-page legal document of extra &#8220;stuff&#8221; we have to do if we want to live there. It includes things like<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>put in a well<\/li>\n<li>put in electricity<\/li>\n<li>get a septic approval letter from the county<\/li>\n<li>get a road access permit from the state highway department<\/li>\n<li>sign some covenants that we won&#8217;t sue the neighbors for stinking<\/li>\n<li>get a letter from the fire chief stating that he can get to our house<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and a zillion other things&#8230; some easy, some complicated. My favorite right now is the deal with the septic system. The property actually came with one (a surprise, since there isn&#8217;t a water source on the property), but we have to have it pumped, even though it&#8217;s empty, and a &#8220;pump report&#8221; provided by the certified septic system pumper guy. THEN, we have to take that to the county septic board, along with some other forms I have to fill out, and a site plan, and so forth, and they then send an official Pooper Inspector (my title, not theirs) to look one more time and say &#8220;yep, they have a septic system&#8221;. Oh, and it costs $575 for him to come take a look.<\/p>\n<p>While all of this is going on, I&#8217;m also working up the energy to draw my house&#8230; the county building department actually wants to see a plans of what I plan on remodeling. \u00a0I wasn&#8217;t intending to do that, I was just going to fake it, but they are insistent that I provide them with something. 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