After a few months of dialing in the design/architecture for the treehouse, there was still one big question: We have an exterior staircase going from the main structure to the "hang out" structure; Will this pass as a minimum of 735 sqft that is required? We were getting to a point in our design in which we were ready to send to the engineer, and I didn't want to be sending the engineer a design that may have to completely be re-done if the city didn't give the OK....
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| Jams on the road are a key component to any important meeting... |
I set up a preliminary meeting with a few city contacts - Building and Safety Land Use and the architect was going to be on the phone through the meeting. With any important meeting, I make sure all my ducks are in a row; the night before I was gathering any information that would help my case and make it easier for the city contacts to see the vision. A key component with any important meeting - Throwing jams on my car stereo at a good volume to pump myself up...After 1.5 hrs of being well pumped, I walked into that city structure ready to dominate (yet nervous the city may shoot down the plans completely.....)
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| San Bernardino Land Use Services Department |
I walked in to the meeting and more and more people started coming in; apparently there was a lot of interest in this project and I took that as a good thing ;) By the end of the meeting, there was a good 8 of us in the room discussing the project and it felt good to have all those city contacts at my fingertips with any questions. In the room we had the following city contacts:
Supervising Planner
Building and Safety Supervisor
Land Development Engineer
Structural Engineer
Building Official
Fire Prevention Officer
Architect
And may I also add, in the building department you don't see too many females, so I used that to my advantage and worked my charm ;) Needless to say, the meeting went well and we were given the "preliminary official" OK that the architectural design is a go!
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