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Originally Posted by Nickshu
.......Add $13,000 for land planning/design for the grounds
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I don't see where there is any Civil Engineering (
land survey, grade topology both existing and proposed, utilities plan, water retention, parking layout, site lighting etc....) included unless they are calling it "land planning".
Is this site in some sparsely located area with little regulatory regulations regarding water retention, or possibly on an urban site which allows you to dump rain/storm water directly into the storm water system?
Around here Civil Engineering is a big cost to developing land, a stack of two dozen sheets at a minimum, which makes smaller scale development cost prohibitive.
The approval process is also highly politicized around here, not only planning department approval, but city council approval prior to that and with public hearings, neighborhood group presentations and all sorts of nonsense. Only after all that will the building department review a set of architectural plans.
These plans (in my state) at the same time need to be sent to the state for approval of some medical procedures/facilities and or if in food service/restaurant services under the guise of "
public health".
They gave you the "Doctor's Price" unless they are some renowned design firm providing you with real architecture and not just some benign builder's building.
They gave you the doctor's price, unless they are including all the Civil Engineering I previously listed.
Again, I'm assuming no re-zoning involved, exemptions or variances being sought and so forth.