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		<title>Permits Ready To Pull!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The glorious day has arrived&#8230;our permits are ready to pull!! Now we just need choose our contractor and we will be off and running.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majorearth.com/blog/2008/09/29/permits-ready-to-pull/</link>
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		<title>Moving Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post to say that we are at the home stretch of approval process. I haven&#8217;t posted an update in over two years due to the slow pace but I&#8217;m happy to say that we got our Coastal Permit approval in early 2008 and now we are just finishing up with LA County. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majorearth.com/blog/2008/08/28/moving-forward/</link>
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		<title>To and Fro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before we can get a hearing scheduled with California Coastal Commission to approve our project we must first satisfy all of their submittal requirements for them to deem our package complete. Over the last few months we’ve been going back and forth with them adding additional items to the package and I believe at this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majorearth.com/blog/2006/07/05/to-and-fro/</link>
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		<title>Striving for completeness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got our first correspondence back from the coastal commission a few weeks ago and we’ve been officially assigned one of their planners, Lillian Ford. The letter that the Commission sent was in response to reviewing our coastal application and to let us know that we needed to include a bit more information before they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majorearth.com/blog/2006/05/02/striving-for-completeness/</link>
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		<title>California Coastal Commission Submittal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week Steve Yett and I took a trip out to Ventura and submitted our Coastal Development Application to the California Coastal Commission. The package we submitted contains all the permissions and approvals we’ve obtained thus far in our journey to build the Burns residence. I anticipate this to be a very smooth process due [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majorearth.com/blog/2006/03/20/california-coastal-commission-submittal/</link>
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		<title>Health Department Approval</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally got our Los Angeles County Health Department approval for the design of our septic system! This was a huge step for us, as this approval was the last major piece we needed to be able to submit our package into the California Coastal Commission. For those that don’t know about septic systems here’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majorearth.com/blog/2006/03/14/health_department_approval/</link>
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		<title>Landscaping, ESHA and Fuel Mod fun!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday my wife, Steve and I met with our Landscape Designer/Coastal Resource Specialist to talk about the kind of plant life we would like around our house. Because The Kim and I already love the look of the indigenous vegetation in the area and we are also keen on the idea of not having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majorearth.com/blog/2006/02/16/landscaping-esha-and-fuel-mod-fun/</link>
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		<title>Little by little&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we hired a Civil Engineer and a Landscape Designer/Coastal Resource Specialist! I don’t know if you guys have been reading in the news paper about construction slowing down and such…well I can’t say I see that here in Southern California. We are at the point where we need to hire a Civil Engineer to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majorearth.com/blog/2006/01/19/little_by_little/</link>
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		<title>Blog helps County Reviewer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems Steve is finding some innovative uses for this site. Instead of having to mail or drive a bunch of documents around to people or agencies involved with our project, he’s starting to just direct them to majorearth.com…a huge time saver!! Here is what Steve just emailed me: I called the County Geologic Reviewer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majorearth.com/blog/2006/01/12/blog-helps-county-reviewer/</link>
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		<title>Fire Dept. Coastal Approval</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit more progress to report. Steve took our plans down to the Fire Department yesterday and was able to get our Fire Dept. Coastal Commission approval. This basically states that our plans show we have room for a fire truck to get into our driveway and also have the proper turnaround to get it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majorearth.com/blog/2006/01/11/fire-dept-coastal-approval/</link>
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