The City Council meeting was the next month. Ty and I both committed to being there. At the meeting the City Planner stood in front of the council and recited the decision of Planning Commission. 'Bob' made another appearance to state his sewer plea and Judy decided to come. The City Council agreed with Planning Commission and approved our request with the same conditions.
Another obstacle completed!!!! We now need to meet the last requirement and receive the 'Certificate of Appropriateness' from the Historic Review Board (in Staunton, this group has another name, but for simplicity, we will leave it as such) At the end of the meeting a few council members approached us to wish us 'good luck' and to have them over to see the final product (we have decided that having an open house when the project is completed would be a great idea!).
One council member indicated that it may be beneficial for us to hire an architect before going to see the Historic Review Board---we didn't listen. We didn't listen, not because we didn't agree with their opinion, but because we knew that it would be expensive and that at this point we didn't 'own' the property and there was a chance that we wouldn't get the 'mixed-use' permit. We didn't want to put more money into this before we knew for sure that it was ours!
We proceeded to submit the application for the 'certificate of appropriateness'---mind you, Judy keeps calling to ask when we are going to 'close'....we tell her that based on the conditions of our offer, we need to wait until we meet with the Historic Review Board to get the 'Certificate of Appropriateness.' She indicates that the seller is getting antsy, but we asked of her to please explain to him that we are very anxious to close, but that we need to finish the process before we can do so. We 'assume' she will pass this on to Neil. We assume!!!
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