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SCVJeff
Sep 10, 2016Explorer
This is a likely a commercial venture and permits will be required (even in Texas). No permits will be issued without all the drawings and reports: Surveyed property, proposed work, including MEP, Soils, and possibly reports from a certified surveyor that your terracing won't affect property around yours (see down), and a million other things. Oh yeah, zoning changes from likely farm land to either multi-dwelling residential, or commercial. THAT goes to the city council if it's incorporated and some of those folk don't like change.
Depending on where this place is its even possible they might need to hire archeologists to survey the land as well as contact the local Indian tribes looking for ancient burial grounds, etc., and each tribe has their own review board, each requiring separate fees to review. I got caught up in this in San Antonio with both the flood plain issue (a separate presidential decree from Carter) as well as the tribal review. The company I hired to issue the report (this isn't something that can easily be done by someone who doesn't know the drill) and it cost $6500 before it was done. I just happened across it a few minutes ago and it's over 150 double sided pages. So now you're down to $43,500 because of the report I'll bet occurred to no one. Hopefully not needed, but this is a commercial development and that's a completely different ballgame.
This will be interesting to watch. I can't imagine even getting this project on paper for less than $50k
Depending on where this place is its even possible they might need to hire archeologists to survey the land as well as contact the local Indian tribes looking for ancient burial grounds, etc., and each tribe has their own review board, each requiring separate fees to review. I got caught up in this in San Antonio with both the flood plain issue (a separate presidential decree from Carter) as well as the tribal review. The company I hired to issue the report (this isn't something that can easily be done by someone who doesn't know the drill) and it cost $6500 before it was done. I just happened across it a few minutes ago and it's over 150 double sided pages. So now you're down to $43,500 because of the report I'll bet occurred to no one. Hopefully not needed, but this is a commercial development and that's a completely different ballgame.
This will be interesting to watch. I can't imagine even getting this project on paper for less than $50k
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