Survey!
You may not believe this. But it's done! While Rich was at WWDC, the surveyor called and said we've got your plan, and we're ready to drop it off. So on Friday, the young man took my check and delivered to me three blueprint certified copies of our survey.
The main reason we had to have it done was because we didn't know where the property line was on the side of the house where we wanted to build. If the property line was at the fence, then we only had 27 feet from the house, which would mean, with the mandatory ten-foot setback, we would only be able to build 17 feet wide. Which would be a bummer.
We have FORTY FEET. We could build as wide as thirty feet and still not have to go to the zoning board. YES! That's going to mean a bit of a change to the plan -- but now we can have a two-car garage, instead of just a really long one-car garage. Which will be awesome.
Our engineer has a copy of our survey now, and so we now need to meet with him to get a septic plan, and start on that. Maybe by my birthday, I'll be able to take a bath in my new bathtub.