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My family (my wife, me and three grown sons) bought our cabin, two hours north of the Twin Cities off Hwy. 169, in 2000. The lake cabin was a combination of a new three-car garage with a spacious unfinished loft above and a tumbling down 1950s, two-bedroom/one bath example of a rustic Americana lakeshore retreat.
We turned the garage loft into a very comfortable getaway for us, with the boys and their friends sharing the old cabin.
Years went by, and our family expanded with three wonderful daughters-in-law and a bunch of beautiful, bright grandchildren. The dwellings were bursting at the seams. Something had to be done. We looked for a year for a suitable existing cabin on our beloved hard-bottom, clear lake. With four families now involved, we could not all agree that any of the properties we looked at were better than what we already had.
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Cabin project has taken considerable work, but jack hammer days are forgotten - Minneapolis Star Tribune
North Dakota's multimillionaire Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has tapped a personal friend and professional fundraiser from Chicago to help get donations for the state's new governor's mansion, even though a committee says it needs no help.
North Dakota's multimillionaire Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has tapped a personal friend and professional fundraiser from Chicago to help get donations for the state's new governor's mansion, even though a committee says it needs no help.
But while Burgum might be instrumental in helping the project reach its financial goal, some worry his involvement also creates the potential for donors who might think they'll get something in return.
Burgum spokesman Mike Nowatzki said the governor asked Pam Kinsey of PKL Consulting to volunteer to help raise the money, fearing private donations necessary to finish the project may not be met.
"The governor essentially is trying to save taxpayers from footing the bill for the balance," Nowatzki said.
Kinsey worked on Burgum's successful campaign and the governor's inauguration, where $215,000 was raised mostly from oil-related and energy companies, and where two oil company officials got to sit next to the new governor at a dinner for $25,000 each.
Kinsey called Burgum a close personal friend.
"I support anything he wants to do for the state," she said. "There is nothing in it personally for me."
Kinsey said she wants to work with the committee, not apart from it. She said she had not made any calls seeking donations yet.
"I'm just trying to be value-added to what they are doing," she said.
The Legislature two years ago approved construction of a new $5 million governor's home, stipulating that $1 million be private donations. Construction on the 13,500-square-foot home began last September, with completion scheduled by this Thanksgiving. The Legislature did not set a deadline on when the balance must be achieved, Capitol Facilities Manager John Boyle said. Jim Poolman, a former GOP legislator and state insurance commissioner and Bismarck businessman, and Rep. Pamela Anderson, a retired banker from Fargo, have headed a group to raise private money. Poolman said the group has raised more than $650,000, and he's confident the balance would be raised by the time the new mansion is complete without Kinsey's help.
"I'm proud of our committee's work and I'm proud of the non-political way we are going about our business," Poolman said. The group raised $10,000 in the past week from one corporate donor, Poolman said. Donations include $10,000 each from former governors John Hoeven and Jack Dalrymple, and from Burgum. He is the ninth chief executive to reside in the current 57-year-old dwelling that officials say has security issues, is not accessible for people with disabilities and likely contains lead paint, mold and asbestos.
GOP Sen. Rich Wardner, the Senate majority leader, called it bad optics for the governor to ask someone from outside North Dakota to help raise money for what is often referred to as "the people's house."
"With an outfit outside of the state, you just wonder if there are strings attached?" Wardner said.
Lawmakers defeated measures to build a new mansion in two successive legislative sessions before finally agreeing. The requirement that part of the money come from private sources was seen as a way to gauge public interest.
Rep. Tracy Boe, a Democrat from Mylo, was among the most outspoken critics of using private donations to build the home. He said it takes dollars from other charities and "gives the illusion the governor's mansion is for sale."
Anderson, the Democratic lawmaker who serves on the fundraising committee, said she doesn't mind Kinsey's help.
"If she's willing to do some help, I don't think that's a bad thing," Anderson said. "I'm proud of what we've accomplished so far." Burgum, who was elected in November, earlier tried to pay himself for additions such as a heated garage floor. Lawmakers criticized the move, saying the new governor doesn't get to change anything just because he's willing to pay for it.
House Majority Leader Al Carlson said he doesn't feel strongly about Kinsey's involvement. He said she would likely provide some fundraising horsepower because big donors associate her with the governor.
"It's really hard for people to say no when governor asks for something," Carlson said. "That's the way politics works. If he hits the goal, I'm OK with that."
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Given all the attention the MoPac Boulevard toll lanes are getting, perhaps some of you think its the only transportation game in town right now.
Not true. Not at all.
Construction is actually moving along on schedule (at least for now) on a number of huge and meaningful projects. With that in mind, heres a midsummer look at the status of those projects. And, what the heck, MoPac, too.
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183 South. Thats what the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority calls this $743 million addition of six toll lanes and at least four frontage lanes, although it really involves what most of us would think of as the eastern leg of U.S. 183. Anyway, construction is about 20 percent complete, the mobility authority says, with overpass construction, creek bridges, miscellaneous earth-moving and new Colorado River bridge columns evident throughout the eight miles of the project from Springdale Road to Texas 71 near the airport.
The mobility authority, which seemingly learned from its unfortunate MoPac express lane experience and chose not to take the lowest bid on this project, says that the first phase (from Springdale to south of Technicenter Drive) is on track to finish by fall 2019. The south section, from Technicenter to Texas 71, should be open by fall 2020. Both dates are far away, and thus subject to change, of course.
Texas 45 Southwest. After decades of environmental resistance and court fights, including a last-minute flurry of pleas to U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel and an appellate court last fall, clearing for the $76 million construction project began in November near FM 1626. Work has moved quickly since then on what will be a 3.6-mile, four-lane tollway connecting FM 1626 near Bliss Spillar Road to South MoPacs south end.
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Go to either of those spots and the work is obvious. But based on reports and photos from the mobility authority, the most progress has occurred in the middle of the construction at Bear Creek. Both vertical columns and horizontal bridge supports are already in place there. The mobility authority says the project is 24 percent done, and should be complete by late 2019.
The lawsuit to prevent the construction or, now, operation of the completed toll road remains pending after a March 22 trial. Yeakel has not yet issued a ruling.
Expanding MetroRail. The capacity of the 32-mile commuter line from downtown Austin to Leander has been limited since its March 2010 opening by a paucity of rail cars, insufficient passing sidings on what is primarily a single-track rail line and a temporary, cramped downtown station. Although many of the north and south runs of the trains have few passengers, the morning and afternoon rush hour runs limited to 30-minute frequency by equipment and track design are usually standing-room-only.
THE BACK STORY: MetroRail poised for a makeover
Capital Metro, using state and federal grants and some of its own tax dollars, is working on essentially doubling the rush-hour capacity to have trains leave every 15 minutes. The agency had four more cars built by its Swiss manufacturer and those cars have been undergoing testing for several months. Capital Metro expects to have them carrying passengers by early next year.
The addition of siding track near the Crestview, Howard Lane and Lakeline stations should begin this fall, the agency says, and take a year to complete.
As for the station expansion downtown, thats murkier. Capital Metro and the city of Austin, after an attenuated negotiation, signed an agreement in June for that project, which will cause the city to make some street changes near the station at East Fourth and Trinity streets. And the station design is not yet at the 60 percent level, the agency says. So, no forecast yet about when the station will be done, and thus when the fully expanded service would be in place.
More and more ABIA. With passenger traffic at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport breaking records year after year, airport officials have been in expansion mode more or less full-time for years. Just in the past year or so, the East Infill project to add security gates and other improvements, a renovated South Terminal for smaller airlines, a second hotel on the airport grounds, an added parking garage/rental car facility and a new privately operated surface lot near Texas 71 (with a dog kennel, no less) have opened.
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But the $350 million expansion of the main terminals east end and the apron area for airplanes is the centerpiece of all this activity. That addition of nine gates bringing the 18-year-old airport to 33 and the expanded apron should be done by summer 2019, airport officials say.
Meanwhile, yet another parking garage is under construction just north of the original garages west end and should be done by winter 2018. And a retail center, with a convenience store, gasoline pumps and other stores, should open by December.
The added gates would bring the airports capacity to about 15 million passengers arriving or departing a day, and just in time. Passenger traffic through the first five months of the year was up 8.5 percent over the record 12.4 million for 2016. At that pace, the airport would be seeing 15 million boardings and deboardings by 2019.
South I-35. A project to replace the Slaughter Creek overpass on Interstate 35 should be done in a few weeks, TxDOT says. Major expansion projects, including bridge replacements, lane additions and ramp changes, are also underway at two other spots: the William Cannon Drive and Stassney Lane stretch, and near Oltorf Street. The $79 million Cannon/Stassney project is 34 percent complete and the $42.6 million Oltorf job is 14 percent done, TxDOT says.
Neither will be done before the end of 2019 or early 2020, the department says.
And, oh yes, MoPac. You may have noticed final paving occurring in sections between Far West Lane and RM 2222, and that the underpasses south of Enfield Road increasingly look more or less done. The agency still says the rest of northbound toll lane (the northern section came on line last October) should be open for business by mid-September, with the southbound lane following a couple of weeks later. So, real hope.
Someday, these four years of MoPac construction will be a funny story you tell your grand kids. Probably.
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Josh Kmak's new(ish) Creepseed project lands on San Diego's best rock/pop releases of 2017...so far.
Since we're halfway through the year, what better time than now to take a look back at the great rock/pop releases San Diego's music community has pumped out in 2017 thus far? While there seems to be a scarcity of actual full-length albums coming out 'round these parts these days, here are some good additions to your playlists.
Creepseed, "The Loneliest Man You'll Ever See" EP (released May 16): The solo project of former Shady Francos frontman Josh Kmak offers up more of the glam-fueled garage-rock he delivered on last year's "The Undertone" album -- oh, and enlisting the Schizophonics as his rhythm section for live shows is just what the creepy doctor ordered. See 'em in action at the Belly Up on Aug. 9. [Listen/download it for free]
Hideout, "So Many Hoops/So Little Time" (released via Small Plates Records on Feb. 3): Not gonna lie, Hideout's 2014 "Rookie" was my favorite San Diego album of that year. With their second record, the group's mastermind, Gabe Rodriguez, has yet again crafted a dense, mesmerizing record of folk, psychedelia, art-pop and good ol' fashioned rock & roll that has remained in constant rotation on my turntable. [Watch the video for "I Got Your Message" andlisten/buy the LP]
Low Points, "Feels" EP (released via Bleeding Gold Records on March 3): Helmed by frontman/songwriter Kevin Vega, Low Points' debut EP might be San Diego's go-to summer tunes of 2017 -- based on the springy, sloppy, garage-surf/rock gem "Life Goes On" [watch the video] alone. Luckily for us, the other three tracks on "Feels" are equally unstoppable, mightily infectious, and next-level fun. [Listen/buy it]
The Schizophonics, "Ooga Booga" EP (released via Pig Baby Records on March 28): OK, so we all know these kids got some serious onstage theatrics -- but their studio recordings are criminally underloved (albeit too few and far between if we're keeping it real). But that's where "Ooga Booga" comes in: Now you can enjoy the band's somersault/splits energy without getting pelted in the head by a wayward instrument. Word on the street is they're releasing a new 45 at the Casbah on July 14. Be there. [Listen/buy the EP]
Sights and Sages, "doubleplus" (released June 30): To be honest, I'm still digging into this one. These seven tracks are a rather dense collection of experimental indie-rock in the vein of Alt-J, Radiohead and, dare I say, Pinback. It's no surprise they were tapped to open Switchfoot's latest Bro-Am festival, and with one listen to the smoldering leadoff single "Aghori" [watch the video], you'll understand why. See 'em at the Casbah on July 29. [Listen to the record]
Elise Trouw, "Unraveling" (released May 7): Trouw, who just turned 18 the day this album (her first) dropped, already sounds like a seasoned industry veteran. On "Unraveling" [watch the video for the title track], she wrote, played and recorded the entire thing herself -- and the resulting 10 songs already display a mastery of precision rhythms and complex melodies that'd be impressive by musicians even 10 years her senior. San Diego's next big thing? Hey, she's got the numbers to back it up. [Buy the LP]
The Thens, "Lessons in Being Late" (released via Postmark Records on April 14): When Max Greenhalgh's not busy workin' the Inspired and the Sleep machine, he moonlights in this indie-pop/rock bass/drum duo with his buddy Ryan Mack. Turns out the dude can't write a bad tune, no matter who he's playing with. See them at SOMA on July 8. [Listen/buy the LP]
Trouble in the Wind, "Pineapple Moon" EP (released July 4): Squeezed in right before I finished writing this up, these North County lads dropped this surprise five-song EP of Americana/pop/rock ear candy on Fourth of July -- right in time for it to hit my BBQ playlist. Let's just say it made more than a fine addition. See them at 91x's BeerX festival on Aug. 12 at Waterfront Park. [Listen/download the EP for free]
Dustin Lothspeichbooks The Merrow,plays in Diamond Lakes,and runs the music equipment-worshipping blog Gear and Loathing in San Diego. Follow his updates on Twitter or contact him directly.
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8 of SD's Best Pop/Rock Albums of 2017 (So Far) - NBC 7 San Diego (blog)
The Asheville Museum of Science (AMOS) has camps and exhibits for children of all ages, including adults. One of the newest additions, a STEM lab, encourages kids to get hands-on with some exciting experiments. (Photo credit: WLOS Staff)
Summer fun for the kids just got a little more out of this world.
The Asheville Museum of Science (AMOS) has new camps and exhibits for children of all ages to enjoy -- including adults.
One of the newest additions, a STEM lab, encourages kids to get hands-on with some exciting experiments.
"My favorite exhibit is the Southern Appalachian Forest exhibit. That's what I'm really excited for," Cory Van Auken said.
AMOS has settled into its new location that first opened in 2016. Admission is $6 for adults and $5.25 for kids.
The museum will also host a festival celebrating the solar eclipse on August 21.
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New Asheville Museum of Science camps, exhibits offer something for everyone - WLOS
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North Jersey Pro Builders - ADDITION - general contractor ...
Imagine you spend about $10,000 for a 3-kW solar photovoltaic (PV) system the size needed for an average family and your neighbor to the east adds a second story to his garage.
The addition is designed for offspring who will perhaps never leave home, but it shades your new solar panels. Its not too bad in summer, but in winter it blocks all but an hour of late morning sun. You would have been better off taking that two-week vacation in Jamaica or Cabo San Lucas.
Dont people need building permits anymore? you complain to your spouse. In fact, in many places across the United States, they dont. But that situation is changing rapidly, as more and more homeowners capitalize on the fact that solar energy, per watt, now costs as little as $3.26.
Costs aside, your 3kW solar PV array, in its first year of operation, provided you with almost enough electricity to run your household (except for your offsprings 4K gaming and HD computer, which runs 24/7). On sunny days in midsummer, it produced enough excess electricity that you sold some back to your utility, in a contract called net metering.
All that went away when the garage addition went up, and now its up to you to find a way to recoup some of your stranded costs. You have a lawyer, of course, but he seems as stymied as you are. His best advice for you so far i.e., $500 in is that you should have checked with your local or statewide building department In fact, these two sources are your only legal recourse, since no federal common-law legal right to unobstructed light from adjoining land exists.
There are several avenues potential solar energy buyers can investigate. In California, where the sun shines almost all the time, there are zoning rules that require new buildings, building additions even newly planted tall trees, to be situated and oriented in very specific ways so as to protect solar access for adjacent properties.
These solar easements can only be used to benefit solar electricity or hot water installations. Other provisions of the California law require a written description of the size of the easement, the type of solar array, restrictions placed upon structures or vegetation which might block sunlight, and the terms under which the easement may be revised or terminated, if any.
California drafted its first solar easement law in 1978, and is still ahead of the pack in almost every other environmental respect. More recently, the state has found itself generating so much excess solar energy that it has to pay other states to take it! Proof, if you need it, that one can have too much of a good thing.
These solar easements (as distinct from solar rights, which govern solar panels per homeowner association covenants, for example, or per local government rules and building codes) are exemplified by the City of Gainesville (Florida), Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ashland (Oregon), the Virgin Islands, and the state of Wisconsin.
Other states with solar easements include:
States with both solar easements and solar rights provisions include:
For further information about solar easements, visit the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, commonly known as DSIRE. Or visit the Solar Energy Industries Association, SEIA.
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Do You Have a Right to Sunlight? - Clean Energy Authority
Roofing accounts for building surge
This year a rash of spring hailstorms brought on a torrent of insurance claims and resulting surge in roofing activity. It also cause a sharp jump in the value of construction permits issued by the City of Plainview.
Since the first of the year, the city has required construction permits for both commercial and residential roofing projects. Through the end of June, the city has issued 267 roofing permits for a combined value of $3,783,751.08. In June alone, the city issued 121 roofing permits for a combined value of $1,656,610.55.
With the strong support of the roofing industry, Plainviews overall building permit total for June is $3,090,710.55 for 145 projects. The year-to-date total is $5,686,599.99, for 346 projects.
During the same period in 2016, the City of Plainview issued 125 building permits for projects valued at $3,310,749, which does not include any roofing activity. Nonetheless, the 2016 total-to-date falls almost half a million short of what has been permitted in 2017 roofing projects alone.
Other than roofing, the city issued 24 permits for construction in June. Those projects, and corresponding values, include: two residential additions, $3,500; two residential remodels, $2,600; one residential demolition, $10,000; 10 garage/carports, $18,000; one storage building, $20,000; one commercial addition, $640,000; three commercial remodels, $710,000; and four signs, $30,000.
For the year-to-date, building permits have been issued for 14 residential additions, $50,750; 11 residential remodels, $2,600; one residential demolition, $10,000; 20 garage/carports, $31,350; three storage buildings, $25,500; one new commercial, $21,000; three commercial additions, $809,988; eight commercial remodels, $754,600; one commercial demolition, $20,000; three commercial accessory buildings, $23,000; and 14 signs, $128,877.40.
Two certificates of occupancy were issued during June, to Nearly New, 713-715 N. Broadway; and Western Equipment, 910 N. Date.
Non-roofing construction projects in June include:
--Wellborn Sign Co., 1220 S. I-27, sign
--Covenant Hospital MRI expansion, 2601 Dimmitt Rd., commercial addition
--Covenant Hospital MRI expansion, 2601 Dimmitt Rd., commercial remodel
--Bernardo Martinez Jr., 304 SW Alpine, garage/carport
--Guadalupe E. Ybarra, 1107 Quincy, garage/carport
--Jose A. Leon, 1411 Travis, garage/carport
--Jose and Armida Botello, 226 SE 10th, garage/carport
--Randy Ortegon, 1603 Galveston, garage/carport
--Josefina Hernandez, 2609 Denver, residential remodel-porch
--Antonia Ramirez, 1004 Joliet, residential remodel-windows
--Mark James, 219 Bryan, garage/carport
--Precision Metal Works, 600 S. Broadway, storage building
--Fred Constancio, 106 St. Louis, garage/carport
--Dora Pardo, 2505 Lexington, residential addition-laundry
--Bill Wells Chevrolet, 501 S. I-27, three sign permits
--Legacy Farms Corporate Offices, 108 Kirchwood Rd., commercial remodel
--Francisco Herrera, 608 W. 27tyh, garage/carport
--Paul Kammerdiener, 204 Thomas Blvd., residential addition-patio
--Jose G. Salayandia, 1505 Dallas, garage/carport
--College Heights Baptist Church, 813 Portland, residential demolition
--Dos Jefes Restaurant, 4009 Olton Rd., commercial remodel
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By MEGHAN McCOY
The Planning Commission unanimously approved remodeling and an addition to the existing accessory storage and garage building, known as the Packing House, at the Historical Museum & Village, last week.
The improvements include an addition of 405 square feet, as well as a new shed roof at the loading dock of 816 square feet and an extended roof overhang. The additions will include a new metal roof to match the existing, as well as new cypress siding to match the existing structure.
Senior Planner Roy Gibson said an application was filed for a development permit, a certificate of appropriateness because the building is not historic, but is in relation and has an association with buildings on the historic register. He said the certificate of appropriateness must meet the standards for historic preservation, which means the first step in the process must have the plans reviewed and recommended by the city's Historic Preservation Committee.
"They were reviewed by the Historic Preservation Committee on June 1 and the committee found that the proposed plan for the addition and remodeling of the Packing House met the visual compatibility standards, and the criteria for a certificate of appropriateness. They recommend that the Planning Commission also find that the proposed plans meet those standards as well," Gibson said, adding that staff found the same findings as the committee.
The Packing House is a replica building, which was built on site, and not located on the city's register historic structures, or landmarks. He said the Land Development Code requires accessory structures, buildings, or site improvements that are relational to those buildings, or sites that are on the register be subject to the criteria for certificate of appropriateness.
The two options presented to the commission included roll down shutters, or barn doors for the loading docks.
Architect Amy Nowacki said the barn doors may be less expensive than the shutters, but it's also a question for the museum in terms of their display. She said with the barn doors they will have to enclose the walls somewhat because it cannot all be sliding doors.
Nowacki said you may have a wall at either end of the loading dock where the doors would open up against that wall. The doors would roll on a track over the face of the wall.
"The intent in any of this was that we could get that wagon and the hitch fully underneath the roof and they could close it down with bad weather, or when the museum was closed during hours. There has never been any vandalism, or theft problems, but it would be better if they could secure it if they needed to," she said.
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