turnout completed!

That's right! The turnout/driveway apron construction is finished. It's just one little step closer to having our own lot and approved building plans. The top photo is looking at the new curb and driveway apron. The driveway to the house will go between those two redwoods. Teh second picture is looking over the driveway apron toward Art & Ann's house. (Thanks, Art, for putting the fence back up!) The third photo shows the turnout, the lovely fence and the neighbor's house. Our driveway is between the neihbor's house and the end of the fence.

The short version of the latest news is this: The county survey department and the title company are having trouble talking to each other in order to reconcile the original deed for the property purchased around 1975. Apparently, there is no deed for Art & Ann's property, only a deed for the larger original parcel minus their parcel. Ugh. How can things be so convoluted?

That was the latest for the lot split. The latest for the building plans is that they were waiting on an erosion control plan, but now they have it. Had our project been submitted and approved in a timely manner based on when we started this whole fiasco, we wouldn't have had to have an erosion control plan nor a soils report. The county has since passed codes requiring just about everyone to have these expensive tests and reports done. We have to have erosion control (even though we are building on a flat lot) because we're next to a creek. The soils report had to be done because Humboldt County is so seimically active. I hate to think of all the extras for those located in a coastal zone--thank goodness we're inland.