More good news...Since we turned in all of our plans together, it was less expensive to do all of the plan reviews and approval process. However, we had a class of contractors that we were trying to prepare the foundation for. Maple Brook was waiting for us to confirm that we'd be able to get everything done in time. Brandon, our engineer, was able to talk the city into letting us break the foundation permit from the rest of the permits so that we could at least pour the foundation and get that going so it wouldn't hold the class back.
When Andrea went down to the city offices to get the foundation permit, she was informed that since the permit was being drawn out previous to the rest of the permits, there would be an additional cost....the entire permit cost. Basically, we had to pay the cost for the foundation permit (multiple hundreds of dollars) twice: they would not remove the cost from the other permits when we took them out.
Finally it was time to pour the foundation. We had them come out and put the forms up (interesting process...kind of fun to watch.) We also had the city come out and take a look at the forms before any cement was poured (highly recommended) since our foundation was right on the setbacks for two of the four sides. After that approval, they brought in a truck and poured the cement, and within two days, those forms were off and the foundation was ready for further work.
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