I've needed to get to these sites for a while, and finally today, after work, I took a bus to the stop nearest these 3. Ramgoat Hill is a relatively steep haul; I had two sites on that roadway, one a minor set of additions, the other rather site-overwhelming new development. Spoke a while with the neighbors for that one - 3 generations gathered around the plan set, the babies immediately picking out the proposed pool, the adults the very full site - the only way the building fits is b skewed diagonally on the site-, the grandmother noting there was at least 10 feet of fill on the site, and cracks in the rock cut and retaining wall were worrying her before any work started.
For some reason soil compaction testing is a novel idea. Granted, most building sites are rock (altho there is sandy dissolving nonload bearing rock and good solid stuff), but filled sites I wouldn't want to put 3 stories of housing on without knowing a lot more about what I've got.
They've got a lovely site to live on, tho.
Since pictures from the sites themselves are unlikely to be of much general interest, I'm posting a few of sights along the way, including the rather lovely, tiny John Smith's Bay, a few hundred feet from my house - 3 bus stops, perhaps half a mile or maybe a bit more. IF the walking was easier - you are in the road nearly all the time, and traffic can be a bear - I'd spend time there. As it is, I've walked past it but not spent any time actually at the beach there.
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