20060814093548.pdfMessage
Gruwell, Meg
From: Gruwell, Meg .
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 9:22 AM
To: 'Sabina _Norton@mckinsey.com'
Subject: RE: Planning Revisions for 812 Cary Road
Page 1 of 2
The plans you turned into Steve show a kitchen, dining room, and other things one would expect in a single-family
dwelling. That is fine for showing the existing structure, but it does not show how you intend to get it to
comply with the requirements for a guest house.
I also need you to show the floor plans (including walls) as you want it to be for the guest house:
1. You cannot have more than two bedrooms in a guest house, so you will have to show how you plan to
combine those spaces, or convert them to other uses until you show only two bedrooms.
2. You cannot have a kitchen, so you will have to show a floor plan that does not have a kitchen and dining
room. If you move the sink, stove and refrigerator and the area looks like a kitchen that just needs to have
a sink, stove and refrigerator to be operational, then that will not work. If it looks like storage or display
units to serve the sitting area, it might be acceptable.
3. After discussing if with my manager, the basement uses of shop and storage would be acceptable uses in
an accessory building, so will be allowed in this accessory building.
4. Other uses that might be expected in a guest house would be a sitting area, but a living room and family
room sound more like uses found in a single-family house.
5. Storage uses are common uses in accessory buildings, so if some portions of the livable space were to be
used for storage, that would be acceptable.
From what you describe below, that all you plan to do is move out the sink, stove, and refrigerator and cap off the
gas, I cannot imagine that it would look like anything other than a single-family house waiting for someone to
move in the sink, stove and refrigerator. Walls aren't shown on the floor plans given, but it seems to me that
some walls might need to be removed to combine, say, the kitchen/dining/ and family room areas together to
make a sitting area. Perhaps the living room and bedroom on the main floor could be combined as a large
bedroom. You have such a large house, it is not what was envisioned as a guest house I am quite sure, so it may
take more effort to get it to comply that would be needed with a smaller structure.
Once you have designed the layout of the house to be an acceptable guest house, then I need a bid by a
contractor to do the work needed.
Thank you.
.Meg Gruweff
Senior Planner, City of Edmonds
(425) 771-0220, Extension 1330
-----Original Message -----
From: Sabina_Norton@mckinsey.com[mailto:Sabina_Norton@mckinsey.com]
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 6:04 PM
To: Gruwell, Meg
Subject: Re: Planning Revisions for 812 Cary Road
Meg,
Will get issues 1 and 2 taken care of.
8/14/2006
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However, on 3, 1 gave Steve Bullock the info that the house is currently only two bedrooms based on what
the definition of a bedroom is. We are using a room upstairs labeled a bedroom, however it lacks a closet
and has inappropriate egress windows so it is not a bedroom. It works now because the occupants are
less than 4ft high. So I believe we are in compliance there, but are welcome to inspect. For the
requirement to remove the kitchen, again based on what Steve said, I have to remove the sink, stove and
refrigerator and then cap off the gas. I do not need a contractor to do this, as we are fully capable of
doing it ourselves and will probably at least need the stove and refrigerator in our new house, so the cost is
zero, but am sure this is not what you will agree to. Therefore, do you want me to get may contractor to
estimate his cost to do the same and then get a bond issued in that amount or do you want some minimum
as good faith? Finally, I signed and gave Steve the original for the covenant that was recorded by my
lawyer, so I assume that meets the requirement of will use primarily as sleeping quarters.
Am I missing something?
Thanks.
Sabina
Sabina Norton
McKinsey & Company/PNW
1420 Fifth Avenue
Suite 3100
Seattle WA 98101
(206)521-7538
"Gruwell, Meg" <Gruwell@cLedmonds.wa.us> To <Sabina_norton@mckinsey.com>, <mike.norton@ssamarine. com>
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08/11/2006 05:50 PM Subject Planning Revisions for 812 Cary Road
Attached please find the review comments for the Planning Division for building permit BLD20060682.
Thank you.
<<BLD20060682x2.doc>> [attachment "BLD20060682x2.doc" deleted by Sabina
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