We have the official word by the Mayor and Council Members of North Dumfries Township to remove the existing house on our lot from the "Heritage" list. Now we wait till Wednesday to find out if we can keep the existing house up on the lot while we start construction of our new home. Once we get our drawings, we need to get a "heat loss" assessment done based on the house plans - more money out the window. When all of that is done we can then submit our drawings in for permit to build. Hopefully this won't take too long. The ball is slowly rolling....

Not sure how many of you have ever attended a Council Meeting. We attended one in Cambridge a while back and today in North Dumfries. No comparison. The Mayor of North Dumfries and its Council members were so easy going, friendly and very welcoming. It was like sitting in someones living room drinking coffee and chatting about things coming up in the community. It was long though. Our "motion" was number 9 on the agenda and by 9:15pm we were on agenda item 6! When the Mayor noticed us still sitting in the back of the room he asked us if we were waiting to hear about anything in particular and when we told him, he said no problem, he'd bump it up to the next item after the break. One of the Council members came to chat with us too, welcoming us to North Dumfries. Very nice people.

Anyway, over one hurdle, a few more to jump before we break ground.