Matt Smith | I Am Applicant | I Am Applicant Book | Matt Smith book I AM APPLICANT |
Matt Smith | I Am Applicant | I Am Applicant Book | Matt Smith book I AM APPLICANT |
Matt Smith | I Am Applicant | I Am Applicant Book | Matt Smith book I AM APPLICANT |
Matt Smith | I Am Applicant | I Am Applicant Book | Matt Smith book I AM APPLICANT |
Matt Smith | I Am Applicant | I Am Applicant Book | Matt Smith book I AM APPLICANT |
I Am Applicant
In 2015, Matt and his wife moved from San Francisco to Sausalito, CA, where they purchased a fixer-upper for their growing family.
Sausalito, California.
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I AM APPLICANT - One Family's Seven-Year Odyssey Building A Home In Sausalito - California.
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It is an odd concept to those I try to explain it to, but in Sausalito, a property owner has to ask the city if they have the right to submit plans for new construction—on land that they own. Sausalito has a planning department and a building department. To get your plans to the building department, you first have to go through the Planning Commission. Both the Bible and the Quran proclaim that “a leaf does not fall without the will of God.” In Sausalito, that leaf first needs to conduct a light-and-shadow study to determine the impact of its departure on the other leaves, consult and document discussions with the sidewalk, dirt, and rocks to address any “massing” concerns that its new presence there would engender, and finally, ensure that its design and style is consistent with the other leaves strewn on the ground. “Those leaves are an existing condition, already in their places,” the Planning Commission would inform our would-be applicant seeking its deciduous destination. “We can’t make the findings for approval. We need more studies and neighborhood outreach.”
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Having lived through the experience of enacting a significant remodel in Marin County, California, Matt Smith has seen first hand the many challenges that a sponsor of a Proposed Project must overcome.
Using data-driven approaches, Matt delves into the specific aspects of the Design Review and Building Department reviews of proposed new development that are failing. Or, not working as they were intended, and adding to the significant costs of building new homes in this state.
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Matt Smith book, I AM APPLICANT features a fact we’ve all come face to face with, namely, bureaucracy. Although, when we first bought our property in Sausalito seven years prior, we would have never thought the uphill battle that would ensue to renovate and finally move into our home. Yes, the California (and US) housing crisis is real. Learn more about our family’s seven year odyssey in building our new home.
Matt Smith book, I AM APPLICANT features a fact we’ve all come face to face with, namely, bureaucracy. Although, when we first bought our property in Sausalito seven years prior, we would have never thought the uphill battle that would ensue to renovate and finally move into our home. Yes, the California (and US) housing crisis is real. Learn more about our family’s seven year odyssey in building our new home.
Matt Smith book, I AM APPLICANT features a fact we’ve all come face to face with, namely, bureaucracy. Although, when we first bought our property in Sausalito seven years prior, we would have never thought the uphill battle that would ensue to renovate and finally move into our home. Yes, the California (and US) housing crisis is real. Learn more about our family’s seven year odyssey in building our new home.
Matt Smith book, I AM APPLICANT features a fact we’ve all come face to face with, namely, bureaucracy. Although, when we first bought our property in Sausalito seven years prior, we would have never thought the uphill battle that would ensue to renovate and finally move into our home. Yes, the California (and US) housing crisis is real. Learn more about our family’s seven year odyssey in building our new home.