“The Board wants to make it absolutely clear that it is not the BTA…preventing Paul & Mary from completing and opening a restaurant They could have opened the restaurant right after purchasing the Sage.”
= Baca Townhome Association 7/19/2024
We start the rumor mill with a sentence from a multi-paged letter sent from the homeowner’s association adjoining what residents lovingly knew as the Sage. We’ll make this short and sweet. There’ll be more to come and eventually you’ll know the whole story.
Just one of the ways the BTA prevented us from completing and opening is by blocking our new kitchen entrance.
Background: the existing structure’s door was so low Paul hit his head on it and itself was falling apart. After we tore the original kitchen entrance down the BTA blocked us from building it back presumably because they were worried about an overall net 192 square foot footprint expansion.
This footprint expansion would enable replacing the plumbing much easier, faster and far less expensive. To be precise, the plumbing of the Sage had to be replaced in it’s entirety. Firstly the health inspectors immediately informed us we’d have to add several handwashing sinks and we soon found there were only two working drains in the kitchen: all others were completely blocked by rusted-out pipe. Replacing an entire building’s plumbing is no easy task and if you check out our blog https://sageshearth.com/the-sages-blog/ starting in March 2023 you’ll see just how involved the process has been. We want to keep this light and positive, so all we can say is we’re having as much fun as we possibly can all things considered.
Just curious; does the BTA and the county actually have qualified inspectors? Or at least inspectors with low egotism.
Hello. The BTA itself doesn’t perform inspections. The county requires plumbing and electrical inspections and is going to add structural soon.