Permission Granted
It took twenty two days longer than we anticipated, but the City of Toronto has finally issued us our building and demolition permits. The house has been sitting vacant for more than a month now, but she’s finally coming down on Monday.
Altius handled the submission of the various applications, which included the construction, engineering, electrical, and geotechnical drawings. However, ten days after our initial application we received word that our permits were temporarily refused until we satisfied the following 3 conditions:
- A report from a Geotechnical Engineer outlining the methods we’d need to utilize to prevent the collapse of soil and ensure the neighboring foundations would be free of damage during the excavation. Or a signed letter from each of adjacent neighbor stating we had permission to excavate into their property. We opted for the neighbors letter.
- Certified specifications for the proposed ICF systems.
- On-site general review by a professional engineer for the constructions / installations of the prefabricated and/or any proprietary products proposed, the possible special foundation/footing design in the case of the angle of repose of the neighboring footing(s) is encroached, and any shoring design deemed necessary.
- Owner’s Letter of Undertaking & General Review Commitment Certificates.
I won’t go into detail for each, but these conditions were relatively straightforward to satisfy and we faxed back the requested documents in less than 48 hours. However it took another twenty days to receive final approval, which I personally think is entirely unacceptable. I’m sure the City is busy and all, but it shouldn’t take that long for someone to review 4 faxed documents. I suppose I should be happy that we didn’t get denied again… That clearly would have tacked another month of waiting onto the process. Regardless, we finally have our permits and we’re all ready to go. I suspect things are going to get a little crazy from this point on.
This project has been nothing but fantasy up until this point, so it’s a little hard to believe that come Monday, there’ll be nothing but a big hole at 360 Winnett.
Game on… there’s no turning back now.
Post Tags: building, building permits, demolition, Toronto
Leave a comment