What are these? there are a bunch of them to the left of the power pole....
With all the great reply's and help I thought I show you guys what is going on.
So I've done some digging around and posted several pictures. I need to explain that I am a beginner at this.
I'd like to buy this piece of land. It is flat up there. There is really no other parcels of land like this in the area
in terms of the amount of land ( 5 acres) how flat it is for the price, its on front of government forested land, and its very private.
The area is close to the city and there is really no other rural area like this so eventually, I believe, it will be sold but not anytime soon.
The only problem is getting a driveway up to the top and that I've never taken a project on like this.
The last picture shows the property lines. The right property line is just on the right side of the cut out by say 10 to 20 feet
and goes back parallel to the rock cut out u can see.
The left property line starts to the left side of the power pole and goes diagonally up and left say 70 ft before going back parallel with the right property line.
My initial driveway measurements are way off. It is not going to be 500 ft long. The driveway needs to be at a .12 gradient.
I think the driveway will need at least two switchbacks. The cliff that has been cut is about 40 ft. And I believe it needs to be at
least 20 ft wide to allow a firetruck up so that I can insure the house that would be built.
What I have found out so far.
The developer of the land was going to put in a driveway but the rock was not blasting horizontally properly. It was fragmenting vertically.
So the developer stopped and wanted to push this project onto the purchaser. The drilling and blasting company that made the initial road
up to all of these lots says that this initial driveway was cut too low and it should have more of a grade. Since this drilling company did the road work
several years ago, he remembered the site and over the phone he was think about 50, 000 Canadian would make a driveway. It could have some more costs.
I would need two geo technical reports from what I am aware of now and the minimum price from one company is 15,000. 3000 for an initial report and then 10 000
for an actual lane way survey and cutout that the blasting company would use to make a drive way.
When you look at the last two pictures I wonder why they would not have made the cut of the driveway going left behind the power pole and then make a switchback
going to the right and up.
And then there is the actual driveway formation (say drainage and gravel) that I have not gotten a quote for.
The other problem with this property is that there is no access to the top of the land.
I would need a condition that I can use the property on the right, that is for sale, to allow different companies
access to the top of the land with their heavy equipment (excavator, drilling machines, etc.).
I need to talk to the planning department of the city to find out what they want in terms of permits, geo reports, and specification.
I need to make a bidding process for drilling and blasting companies to give me an approximate quote without having a specific geo tech report for them,
I need to get more geo tech company quotes as to who is the cheapest but I am leaning towards one who specializes in rock blasting excavation.
And I think I would need to excavate and prepare that area above first before the drilling and blasting takes place. And so some of those trees
look to have value and I may need to hire a tree falling company first to clear the area and get back some money from the trees.
This is all kinda overwhelming but I usually find out info over 3 days and take a few days off of thinking about it but it is something I want to do.
It does look like it can happen but there are still many unknowns especially in prices as I don't have a geo tech laneway reort to show the blasting companies.
I really like going up there and walking about. Where as I am noticing that living in a condo box
is making me miserable, especially in my body. I am learning lots, its great.
streetffightingman
