but tonight I surveyed the final block of the neighborhood for the Neighborhood Conservation Combining District, and entered it into the database. (On the last team, one surveyor never turned in his materials, and another block just seemed to have been overlooked. I ended up doing both myself.) We now have records on 990 properties in a sixty-block area, including tax-record cross-references, ownership information, square footage, construction dates (some of which we know to be wildly off from the truth), construction, driveways, cars, junk-in-the-yard, and any and everything else the surveyors thought to be worth writing down.
We’re still nowhere close to where we need to be; now we need to get street-side photographs of every property we surveyed, but that can come in the next few weeks. I’m going to do as much of that as I can myself, since I can use my digital camera, dump them to CD, and we’ll really have documentation worth something. I want to get as far as I can before the trees begin leafing out. (Right now is an ideal time of year to be photographing.)
The NCCD plan has already been filed with the City, and should be heard by the City Council sometime this spring. I got my official homeowner’s notification of proposed zoning change (i.e., the NCCD) in the mail about two weeks ago.
