Daily Archives: May 11, 2013

Neighbor and Pictures

Posted in Finding the Perfect Property by

Today marked the beginning of a beautiful sunny Mother’s Day weekend in Sammamish. In the late afternoon we took a drive to check out the property and show it to Joel’s parents. They loved the great neighborhood and how calm and relaxing the property was. The quiet park-like setting was gorgeous yesterday as the sun was just setting behind the trees to the west. While there, we met the next-door neighbor who was out walking her dog. She was very friendly and nice to talk to, only having nice things to say about the property and the area. She said that she was the first home built on the street and that she’s been watching all of the homes being built for the past few years. She studied as an Architect so I’m sure she loved watching all the different types of homes in the neighborhood be built. I know I would!

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She also mentioned that her home was originally built and owned by Dwight K. Martin, who has since moved to build and live on Lake Sammamish. She was raving about the quality of construction and attention to detail of her home and that he was a phenomenal builder. I checked out his website (www.dkmartincustomhomes.com), and he definitely looks like a very quality builder. I’m sure he’ll be someone that we’ll check out once we’re at that stage.

Wetland Delineation

Posted in King County Research, Wetlands by

The next step in our feasibility study was to determine if the wetland has changed since the original wetland delineation in 2007. What that consists of is mapping out the wetland using coordinates to really know the limits of where the wetland lies. In my job, we routinely have bioligists at delineate wetlands. On some projects we’ve worked on wetlands that once were recorded are now obsolete and on other project we’ve had wetlands increase in size from what they were in the past. In particular, at this site, if the wetland encroached any more to the west on the property then we really wouldn’t have a large amount of room to build on. This would limit both the size of house and the size of yard that we would be able to have.

Well, Lance is absolutely amazing! He emailed one of his well known acquantainces, John Altmann from Altmann Oliver Associates inquiring about the lead time to do a wetland delineation for us. John Altmann replied to Lance and said did the study back in 2007 and just a few weeks ago was paid by a different interested buyer to check out the wetland. Score one for us, since we won’t have to pay for him to go back out there…and even better is the news that the wetland delineation done in 2007 still is valid. The wetland hasn’t increased in size! He also confirmed that the wetland buffer is 225′. All of this is very fantastic news for us as our assumptions haven’t changed on the property, and it was free! I guess it pays off to really know the right people!