First Mothballing COA applied for! & its us :)

[Gloria]

Ms. Scott-
This email is to inform you as the Chief of the Municipal Code Compliance that the Historic Preservation Section of the Planning and Development Department has received a COA for mothballing the property located at 423 Walnut Street. We have tentatively scheduled this application for the Tuesday, November 15, 2011 meeting of the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission. Please consider this notification of the upcoming public hearing for this application as required under Chapter 307.303(b), Jacksonville Ordinance Code.

Sincerely,

Lisa Sheppard, AICP, LEED® AP
Senior Historic Preservation Planner
City of Jacksonville
Planning and Development Department
Ed Ball Building
214 North Hogan Street, Suite 300
Jacksonville, FL 32202
Phone: 904-255-7843
Fax: 904-255-7885
Email: sheppard@coj.net

(it is court and not street, but minor details)

[iloveionia]

12 butts in 12 chairs would be great.
This is a night to slay the dragon again.
Bring your butt and your fire.

Nov. 15th HPC, 3 p.m.

[Gloria]

If you can't make it to the meeting, email your support to Lisa Sheppard

sheppard@coj.net

PSOS needs your support on this. We need the city to realize that the neighborhood backs us on this project and has faith in our ability to do what we say.

[jbm32206]

I'll send a letter, since it's not possible to attend

[Gloria]

Interesting things happening today.

First this:



And then my journey to the building inspection department.

I talked to a great guy, Chuck, assistant supervisor -- talked to him about the temporary bracing.

He would like mothballing to have to go to building department for an alteration and repair permit, in this case to do temporary bracing of the columns. Once a building permit is issued, the property's jurisdiction is the building department (who is in a much better place to determine the structural integrity of building components). They are not going to care about the color of the plywood, so the non-structural issues will still be determined by HPC, along with blight-reducing components, landscaping, painting and etc.

Even though there will be a cost associated with pulling a permit (the permit cost is probably going to be $154), I think it is well worth it to have the building department determine whether or not a building can stand without posing a threat to the neighbors and direct contractors and homeowners how to make it stable.

My next step is to draw up our temporary bracing ideas, write up a permit -- it is easy for us with my being a building contractor and all, (all mothballees will have to use a licensed contractor to pull the alterations and repair permit for the structural mothballing issues) -- and go back to the building inspection department and pull our alteration and repair permit.

After the temporary bracing is complete, the building department will come to the job and inspect. Once it has passed, it will be finalized.

HPC's inspector, Martin Kennelly, will be responsible to inspect all non-structural elements of the mothballing COA.

Perfect!

[iloveionia]

HPC friends.
Building and Planning (permits) friends.
Maybe code will catch on. LOL

Good stuff!

[uberpaly]

Congrats guys! I know how happy and proud you all must be.

[Gloria]

Pulled the building permit today.

It is for temporary bracing.

There will be one inspection required.

Hopefully, this will satisfy Code Enforcement that the home is stable and we will move forward.

[Gloria]

We are here at the hpc meeting hoping to get our mothball c o a

[bananas]

woohoo!!!!!