Moving On Up Ideas

The plans to move Mom and Dad up are moving along.  On the advice of our neighbor, Carolanne, Amanda spoke with the town’s code enforcement officer, and in five minutes he ran through the regulations.  If the addition doesn’t have a kitchen he can approve it, or if it has a kitchen but is no larger than 420 square feet, but if it’s larger then you have to get plans for your septic upgrade along with the “second dwelling” (they don’t call them in-law apartments anymore) and he rejects them so that you go before the Zoning Board.  You let your abutters know and they can write in support or opposition (Carolanne wants to keep us so she’s going to write in support).  You keep what your building outside of the 50 foot buffer surrounding your property line, and you can also place restrictions on the second dwelling such that only family members can occupy it.  This makes the Zoning Board happy.

Mom and Dad are excited.  They’ve been looking at floor plans and juggling ideas since we told them.  This morning, Dad and I talked about building a three car garage on the site of the existing one and extending the back so that their living space would be behind and above.  Sounds like the best plan so far.

We still have to talk about Ultraviolet and Kill Bill as a stylized tale of divorce.