Not Your Normal Everyday Permitting Process

Though it doesn’t look like much yet, the basic footprint of the new 180 boat slip Campground Marina project has been laid out for inspection. The Trinity River Authority requires the footprint of the coverage of the marina, and its 500 feet long timber wavebreak – must all be staked and painted with special dayglow markers.

The agencies that must approve this project include the TRA, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and finally, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department of the US Fisheries & Game Bureau, which are all US governmental authorities.

As with all governmental permitting processes, this takes a while – especially if anyone doesn’t follow the process perfectly. Reams of paperwork and design drawings, written evaluations, studies, historical and architectural guidelines and public notice processes must be followed to a degree not normally encountered by normal everyday residential project permitting.

This process has been quite seamless and enjoyable throughout, and the normally expected, and encountered “bumps in the road” have seemed like tiny cracks in the pavement while we travelled at full speed down the permitting interstate.

When professionals do their jobs, the process goes according to plan. This one certainly has. Learning along the way will add to our experience for the future projects that are piling up. Thanks everyone for a great experience on this one!

Ray and Adam Wilner, my old RED friend Ron and the rest of the “Ray’s Marine Construction” team has been a highly professional, elemental part of the perfectly chosen team – Working with experienced and highly talented people like you has made the survey portion of the project so easy.

Surveying a 78,000 sq. ft. project in a single day by GPS location was made into a simple task – because it certainly could have been different had everyone not known what they were doing.

Thanks to you and your experienced crew, the process was quick, with GREAT results~!!! Now we are ready to drive the first 260 of the thousands of pilings that will make up the bulk of this new multi-million-dollar commercial marine project.

I am glad we are working together on this one Ray~! Again… as usual, it was even, dare I say…. fun.