Speaking of plans
, I wanted to pass on something that our county inspector told us the other day (since similar may be true in other places). He came out to inspect our new roof, and as we were talking we mentioned that we wanted to turn our garage into an office later on. He told us that in our zoning area, we would have to build either another garage or a carport in order to do that, since county requires that we have a covered parking area for 2 cars (all of which we already knew). BUT he also said that Sonoma County will give us, free, a complete set of plans for a carport, already rubber-stamped and approved. He also said the carport is easy to build, a weekend project. So ... I don't know what other plans may be given away free in other counties or municipalities, but it might be worth checking if you have something like that in mind. Ann