Need Help Filing Drawing With DOB
Our managing agent is requiring us to file a drawing with the DOB because we are removing a partition in a closet so that the interior of the closet is not split in two. We don’t need any permits, just need to file a drawing. Can anyone recommend someone reliable who will do this for…
Our managing agent is requiring us to file a drawing with the DOB because we are removing a partition in a closet so that the interior of the closet is not split in two. We don’t need any permits, just need to file a drawing. Can anyone recommend someone reliable who will do this for us for cheap? Seems totally ridiculous that it needs to be done at all.
The managing agent is trying to do the right thing and avoid work without permit violations and fines. However your managing agent might want to consult New York City Building Code, 2008 edition instead of a list. At a pinch perhaps an architect’s letter to the managing agent would suffice.
I usually do not turn away work, but unfortunately it is a min fee job. Give me a call if you want to discuss.
Thanks everyone for the input. Very helpful for someone who knows little about this stuff. At this point, unless the mgmt company changes its position, we’re taking that item out of the work plan. It was only for aesthetic reasons anyway. I haven’t even been able to find an architect who is willing to do something so minor.
You might also want to check the co-op’s offering plan, or the plans in the bylaws. If the partition was added after the plan was drawn, and there is no DOB recorded job in which the wall was constructed, then inform the managing agent that you are returning it to the legal original status, thereby correcting a potentially very large fine for the co-op doing work without a permit.
That being said, I could be very, very far off.
Tell them you changed your mind and then Do it yourself, piece by piece and throw the pieces in the weekly trash. Should take less time than all the drawing, permitting, etc.
the five inches you’re going to get in the closet are not worth the $, time and effort.
This might be ot, but here’s some questions:
Who put the partition in the closet and when?
Did you install it?
Was it there before you bought the place?
Is it illegal in the building code?
Is there a statute in the coop bylaws prohibiting it?
Did the coop give permission for it to be installed?
In other words – how did it get there, does it have to be removed and is it your responsibility and not the coop’s to do so?
You gotta follow denton for drawings filed with DOB. There is unfortunately no such a thing as a drawing without a permit and there is no such a thing as a drawing without a licensed design professional (with limited exceptions) and you will need asbestos certification to add a coupla’ hundred more. For such a small type job the managing agent is presumably an idiot but if there is a change in the existing layout of permanent walls by law it has to be filed. Maybe you can geta CCD-1 approved by the local boro office as minor ordinary work which will exempt you legally from a permit if approved but go figure with the idiots at dob.
Think Shawshank redemption.