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A near miss at the city permit office taught me to triple check my site plans
I was at the Denver permit office last Tuesday, waiting to get my commercial project stamped. I had my full set of drawings, everything looked good on my screen. The reviewer, this older guy named Carl, was flipping through the pages and stopped cold at the civil sheet. He pointed at the property line and said, 'Your setback is off by six inches.' My heart just dropped. I had copied a base file from a past job and didn't fully check the lot survey against the new parcel. That tiny mistake would have sent the whole set back, costing my client at least two weeks. I had to go back to the office, fix the line, re-plot, and drive back. Now I never trust an old file. I open a new drawing and manually place every boundary line from the fresh survey PDF. Has anyone else had a close call like that from reusing old base files?
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murray.cole3d agoMost Upvoted
Six inches? That's way too close for comfort.
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