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Home My WebLink AboutCorrespondenceDave Argo From: Dave Argo Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 10:04 AM To: 'LisaOLocke@gmail.com' Cc: Ikrol@garfield-county.com Subject: Sun Meadow Estates - Lot 10 Lisa & Ryan: I am currently reviewing plans for a new single-family residence located at Sun Meadow Estates, Lot 10. However, before we can issue a building permit for this project there are a couple of items that require a response from your Architect: 1. Snow Load Requirements — Garfield County's minimum snow load requirements are 40 PSF as measured at the roof (not at ground level) and all of the Architect's drawings have a notation indicating a 25 PSF snow load. This note is located on all sheets in the lower right-hand corner of the page in the title block. In addition, the Architect's Roof Design Notes on Sheet 6 specifically call out a roof snow load of 25 PSF. Although the and Engineered foundation plan from CIVCO Engineering and the roof truss shop drawings indicate 40 PSF snow loads, the Architect's incorrect notations/drawings require clarification as to meeting our minimum requirements of 40 PSF. We'd like for him to submit a correction letter via email directly to our office so that we can be assured that proper snow loading is accounted for in the Architectural design plans. 2. Wall Bracing & Lateral Loading — The Architect includes a boxed note on several drawings that states: "If lateral Engineering is required, refer to Engineering sheets for lateral specifications." The I.R.C. does require wall bracing to be addressed, but nothing appears to be provided on either the Architect's drawings or the structural foundation drawings from CIVCO. Please have either the Architect or Engineer address wall bracing requirements for this structure. Specific areas to be addressed include: a. At overhead garage doors/walls b. At the great room window wall c. Any other general requirements for the building's perimeter walls Please have your Architect and/or Engineer follow-up with this requested information described above at their earliest convenience so that we can finalize our review and issue a building permit for your project. FYI: Another item will need to be addressed as per requirements contained in the Soils Report: the foundation is required to include over -excavation of approximately 3 to 4 feet in depth of the natural soils and replacement with compacted structural fill prior to placement of the foundation. This is necessary to avoid "risk of movement and distress" with the building according to Kumar's description. The Soils Engineer will be required to provide an open hole soils report to verify that this has been addressed. In other words, the Architect/Engineer doesn't need to do anything at present to satisfy this requirement. However, out Building Inspector will need to see the open hole soils report prior to reviewing the steel reinforcing at footings before initial concrete pour at the job site. Dave Argo Plans Examiner C. Garfield County Community Development Department 108 8th Street, Suite 401 Glenwood Springs, CO 81601 Tel: 970-945-8212 Ext. 1610 Email: dargo@garfield-county.com Web: garfield-county.com 1 Dave Argo From: Dave Argo Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 10:25 AM To: Andy Schwaller (aschwaller@garfield-county.com) Subject: FW: 200324 Itr - lisa.pdf Attachments: 200324 Itr - lisa.pdf Andy: Can you please take a look at this information sent to me from Doug Anderson ... he's the contractor who is married to Mary Lynn in the County Attorney's office. If you recall, I discussed this project with you, Matt & Jim a couple of weeks ago when we got together in the conference room. I don't have the drawings here at my home office, but you can find them in the amended plans box just inside my office door — they are the tallest roll of drawings and the project file folder is next to my computer station under Ryan & Lisa Locke (BLRE-02-20-6128). I've explained to Doug a couple of times that we need for the Architect of these canned plans to send us an email with a correction to the 20 PSF snow load that appears on every sheet of his $2,500 set of drawings, but Doug is fighting that all the way. He says that this most recent information from the Structural Engineer (CIVCO) + Engineered Roof Trusses with 40 PSF snow load + Foundation Plans from CIVCO with 40 PSF snow load is all we should need. What is your opinion? If you are OK with this new information, then I'm fine with releasing it for permit, because he's wearing me out ... Let me know what you think. Thanks, Dave Argo Plans Examiner AZGarfield County Community Development Department 108 8th Street, Suite 401 Glenwood Springs, CO 81601 Tel: 970-945-8212 Ext. 1610 Email: dargo@garfield-county.com Web: garfield-county.com From: Doug Anderson <dougklranch@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 9:54 AM To: Dave Argo <dargo@garfield-county.com> Subject: [External] 200324 Itr - lisa.pdf Sent from my iPhone Dave Argo From: Andy Schwaller Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:12 AM To: Dave Argo Subject: RE: 200324 Itr - lisa.pdf I think the letter covers the areas between the trusses and the foundations. It is not great, but I would attach the engineers letter to the plans with a redline for all headers as per code. From memory, there is a header schedule or table in the code. From: Dave Argo <dargo@garfield-county.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 10:25 AM To: Andy Schwaller <aschwaller@garfield-county.com> Subject: FW: 200324 Itr - lisa.pdf Andy: Can you please take a look at this information sent to me from Doug Anderson ... he's the contractor who is married to Mary Lynn in the County Attorney's office. If you recall, I discussed this project with you, Matt & Jim a couple of weeks ago when we got together in the conference room. I don't have the drawings here at my home office, but you can find them in the amended plans box just inside my office door — they are the tallest roll of drawings and the project file folder is next to my computer station under Ryan & Lisa Locke (BLRE-02-20-6128). I've explained to Doug a couple of times that we need for the Architect of these canned plans to send us an email with a correction to the 20 PSF snow load that appears on every sheet of his $2,500 set of drawings, but Doug is fighting that all the way. He says that this most recent information from the Structural Engineer (CIVCO) + Engineered Roof Trusses with 40 PSF snow load + Foundation Plans from CIVCO with 40 PSF snow load is all we should need. What is your opinion? If you are OK with this new information, then I'm fine with releasing it for permit, because he's wearing me out ... Let me know what you think. Thanks, Dave Argo Plans Examiner Garfield Countj, Community Development Department 108 8th Street, Suite 401 Glenwood Springs, CO 81601 Tel: 970-945-8212 Ext. 1610 Email: dargo@garfield-county.com Web: garfield-county.com From: Doug Anderson <dougklranch@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 9:54 AM To: Dave Argo <dargo@garfield-county.corn> Subject: [External] 200324 Itr - lisa.pdf Sent from my iPhone 1 Dave Argo From: Dave Argo Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2020 12:12 PM To: Doug Anderson Cc: Ikrol@garfield-county.com Subject: Locke Residence - Sun Meadow Estates, Lot 10 Doug: We received your updates for the Locke Residence, but unfortunately there isn't enough information provided and before we can approve these changes we need to have the following items submitted to our office: • Updated Foundation Plan — Including the proposed openings to accommodate windows & doors as shown on your basement level floor plan. CIVCO Engineering needs to verify that these proposed changes work with their original foundation calculations and they need to provide us with an updated foundation plan including detailing at dropped foundation walls and header beam sizes above these openings. • Roof Layout Plan — We also need to receive an Engineered roof layout plan which was not provided with the original application plans — even if the entirety of the roof structure is pre -fab roof trusses, so that we can verify that CIVCO Engineering has properly accounted for intended roof structure above the foundation and main level floor framing. Unfortunately, we did not realize that a roof plan had not been submitted in your original application, but we now require that this information be provided to our office. If pre -fab roof trusses are going to be used they will need to be designed to accommodate a 40 P.S.F. snow Toad and 115 mph Ultimate wind speed as per 2015 I.R.C. requirements and a copy of the roof truss shop drawings will need to be provided at the job site for our Building Inspector to review. • Septic System Changes -- As you know, septic systems are now approved by Public Health Dept. so we will forward the submitted revisions to their office for review/comment. However, before we can do that you need to submit (2) copies to our office of the updated Sheet C1 (you only provided us with a single copy of this updated OWTS design. Please provide (2) copies of these requested items described above to our office at your earliest convenience so that we can finalize our review of these proposed amended plans. Dave Argo Plans Examiner Garfield Count Community Development Department 108 8th Street, Suite 401 Glenwood Springs, CO 81601 Tel: 970-945-8212 Ext. 1610 Email: dargo@garfield-county.com Web: garfield-county.com