Went down to city hall this afternoon and applied for our building permit for the kitchen project. Since it involves adding onto the house, it has to go through zoning approval, so feedback should be received in 5-10 business days.
The process was relatively smooth and quick, though some of my prep was overdone. The city supposedly has "paperless" process — just hand them a CD with all the files and then files can be updated through DropBox — but the person at the building office said that the head building inspector prefers to have paper plans, and would need them anyway for the field inspection. Sooooo … I did give them a copy of the CD, but also my wet-stamped copies of the architect and structural engineer drawings that I had brought along.
And, a substantial chunk of change later, those wheels are now turning. Huzzah!
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