Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Interesting info from Awesome Neighbor

So our neighbor (on the corner) is in the process of getting a permit for a mixed use facility from the city (good luck- didn't it take us a year to get ours for just a residence? We slacked a bit, but still!) and found out some very interesting things about our lot. First it's zoned GR-NP-NCCD. GR= General Retail, which means higher resale value, other things can be built on our lot (Ebay business? Daycare?), etc. The NCCD part (Neighborhood Conservation Combining Districts) provides incentives for building and growth along busier, usually commercial, corridors of neighborhoods, and as such, our City of Austin development fees are waived. Wow! If this is true, we may get some money back from the city. Every penny helps and this is some good news if it's true ($500 can buy a lot of things for a new house!!). Finally, Awesome Neighbor talked to the director of the daycare center that backs up to our back yard (and that has 900+ sq ft of our yard) to let her know that their property is illegally taking over ours (wow- is this Awesome Neighbor really going to be ours???? Alright!!) and she found out that they really don't want to lose their playground (which is on our lot) and that they may really just want some condolences and sympathy regarding it. So, my idea is to clean up the fence a little bit (maybe put a gate on it with a lock) and then just make an agreement with the center that whenever my boys want to play on the playscape, they can (with my supervision of course). Also, if I have to run to the grocery store sans boys, I can drop them in at the daycare center (haha! Wouldn't this be great? They'd be indebted to us for life!!).

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