Plan comments

Dave and architect went to the city's building department today at 4:15pm, ready to pick up comments on our plans. Comments were ready!

One department had signed off, but that hadn't been entered into their records. The comments from Building were extensive, and involve a fair amount of work to meet their requests. They insist on five new sets of complete full-size plans (at $50 a pop!) for re-submittal.

One piece of good news: USAA's upgraded property valuation put our house value higher than it's ever been (? huh? In this market?), so we can increase our credit line without any trouble. (Turned out USAA couldn't understand why we'd want to increase it when we hadn't used it yet and it had a zero balance....umm, because, doesn't it make more sense to line up all the financing before you start the project?)