Wednesday, July 6, 2011

A Missing Map and More about Blasting
 I call a friend of mine to come for coffee.  He’s a civil engineer and would understand and explain the details of the Ledge Removal Plan. 
          Joe picks up an 11” x 17” copy of the plan, actually a map.  He waves it at me.
          “So where’s the big one, the 2’ x 3’ sheet that’s in the Site Development Plan? I asked you to get Planning to make you a copy.”
         “But, they don’t have one,” I reply.  “I went to Planning.  I checked through the entire set of Site Plans.  I wrote down a list of the pages: Title/Cover Sheet, Legend and Notes, Existing Conditions Plan, Overall Site Plan, Grading and Drainage Plan, Utility Plan, Erosion and Sedimentation Control Plan, Enhancement Plan, Details.”
        Joe shakes his head.
        “When I didn’t find it, I asked where it was.  They said that Cherenzia has never submitted a full-sized Ledge Removal Plan. They even suggested that they could enlarge one of those 11” x 17” copies for me... if that would be helpful”
         Joe uses a magnifier to try to pick up details from the smaller version of the map.
        “That would get us absolutely no where,” he says. “Take fuzzy detail and blow it up?  You just have big fuzzy detail.”