Soils and Geology Submitted!

Yes, you are seeing it correctly. By 10:31 AM the L.A. Building Department has already seen 600 people before me. By the time I actually got to the counter, six more people had signed up behind me...and that's just for the Grading Division.

Today marks a milestone in the project. This morning I dropped the Soils and Geology report off with the L.A. Grading Department. The current estimated time for reviewing the report is estimated to be...8 weeks. However, the employee at the counter told me that it would probably be much shorter due to a drop off in submittals. We are on schedule to submit the project for plan check on August 1st and should be getting our corrections back in September. We're keeping our fingers crossed that there are no big surprises, but with the Building Department, anything is possible. The Grading Department engineers will review the report and issue "Recommendations". These are actually more like requirements for construction and, despite the title, anything but optional. When we submit our plans for plan check, we will have to submit a set of grading drawings for review that must comply with the recommendations. The whole process is expected to take 8- 10 weeks once we submit all of our drawings for plan check. In the meantime we are finalizing the design development drawings and engineering in preparation for our August 1st deadline.