Thursday, June 30, 2016

Tree clearing is almost completely done

We've removed 50+ trees from the lot to make room for the house and to satisfy the fire mitigation rules of Jefferson County. The fire mitigation rules call for the removal of all trees within 15' of the house (with one possible exception) and drastic thinning of trees within 75' feet of the home. This thinning has changed the character of the lot. Below is a picture of the lot and a link to a video. Compare the video to the one in an earlier blog posted prior to thinning. I'm sure everything will look better once the house is in place. For now, it looks like--well--a construction zone.



Video of lot after tree clearing

3 comments:

  1. Looks like lot is fairly elevated from the road. Good water run off.😁 Are you required to show the neighbors the house plans? Is this a HOA neighborhood? Showed the blog to Tom yesterday. Jannie

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  2. Looks like lot is fairly elevated from the road. Good water run off.😁 Are you required to show the neighbors the house plans? Is this a HOA neighborhood? Showed the blog to Tom yesterday. Jannie

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  3. The lot has good drainage and slopes to the south. Southern exposures are great in this climate. We needed to get approval from the HOA on the design and location of the house. We were not required to show plans to the neighbors. Most of them now know the design of what we are building.

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