Almost a year later we have visible progress. Tomorrow we move into temporary housing and demolition starts on Monday. Where did the year go? Well, we had no idea how much paperwork was required to move the house and how many hoops we would have to jump through. The new lot required surveys and then plans with the house on the lot. Then CAMA approval, then Board of Adjustment (even though we weren't asking for a variance), then the National Flood Maps changed, then the Town changed the building height rules adding two more feet of freeboard. In the mean time we enjoyed living at the beach, had some great vacations and tried really hard to just be "zen" about all the hoops we had jump thru. The Town has been great to work with, the contractor is great, it just takes longer than we thought.
The first visible sign that things are finally happening is the palm tree. My baby! We want to salvage it and plant it at the new lot. I hired a landscaping contractor to dig it and hold it for us while the house comes off the lot and gets moved to the new lot. It will then be replanted and babied. They dug it yesterday, but the piece of equipment wasn't big enough to lift it. They were planning to come back today to take it to a palm storage yard with water and special holes for palms, but with the weather was expected to dip below freezing and they didn't want the roots exposed. They came back last night around 9:00 and loaded it up, so hopefully the palm missed the frost and will be fine until we can get it planted again.
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| Starting to dig out the palm. |
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| Tipping it over |
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| Laying it down. Taller than we expected! |
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| The roots are not like a regular tree. And since this is a Sabal palm, according to my research, most of these roots will die. |
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