The Earth is moving!

So, can you tell the difference? There is something missing here. Dirt is moving as planned to get the site ready for building. Progress!

Friday, 22 July

Bump of dirt behind the frontend loader, straight ahead, is where the building will sit. Lots of dirt to be moved to level the lot as the county desires, but now you can see where the church will be! Just behind, to the right, where the trees end (now) you can see folks walking in Pratt Park. Walk by and check it out.

Visualizing

It can be tough to 'see' what is going on at our site when you're not sure where things are supposed to be. I did a quick simple sketch (to scale) of our site plan here. So when you see photos from the front entrance, you know about where the building will sit - a good ways back from the entrance and in the left corner of the lot from there. There will NOT be access from the gravel road on the right (YMCA) to our parking lot, though. We did not get permission from VDOT to do this, as it would have added a year to our site permitting (conceivably) and many more funds to do an impact study and perhaps add another road through to Butler at our expense. Not in the cards for us.

So, here is this week's entrance photo, and the site layout. Feel free to comment with any questions.

This last one is from the YMCA side. The orange fencing is around a filtration pit - four feet deep, and there is another a short ways away. Behind this pit is where our parking lot will be.

Now we're cooking!

This guy was the first thing I saw on the land tonight. I take it as a sign of good luck. I think he scurried to a puddle before I left.

Finally, I go on vacation, and low and behold - progress! Thought I'd share a few pics from my check on the things tonight. The road is cut through the property and they will be hard at work this week to continue the progress on the site to get the pad site for the building ready as soon as possible.

Stay tuned!