EXCITING NEWS ABOUT THE NEW PROPERTY

If you have been keeping up with the goings on for the new property lately you'll notice that not much has been published about what is going on, that doesn't mean that things are not happening, and we are working on ways to improve the communications to you. Look forward to great things happening very soon.
Now for a update on what is going on. Last time I mentioned the California Watering Ordinance was causing some delays in our moving forward, well we have had a numerous meetings with our landscape architect and have now have a landscape plan that will meet the requirements of the ordinance and not make our campus look like a desert.
One of the issues with the ordinance is the amount of water we will be allowed to irrigate all the landscaping and where will that water come from? We have been working with a pump company to determine if we can use the existing ag well that is on the property for all our landscape irrigation needs. It turns out that our well is usable and that it will produce a conservative 250 gallons per minute but that volume is insufficient to meet our total needs. The amount of water that we will have available also effect the overall design of the irrigation system and subsequent cost. With the help of our landscape architect and Dennis Whistler, our architect, we brainstormed ideas and came up with a plan for watering that we can use the existing well volume, at least for several years but it involves getting the city to allow us to water 6 days a week instead of 3 days per the cities watering ordinance. Many of you are probably aware of the odd address, even address watering schedule in the city.
We have had a letter drafted and submitted to the city for several weeks asking for a variance to their watering schedule or allow us to establish a second address for the site. We have yet to hear back from them. The letter indicates that the original use of the property was for about 150 single family homes to be built which would have both even and odd address that would allow for 6 watering days of all the properties. As a single entity, the church would not use as much water as 150 homes but only has one address and that would limit us to 3 days to irrigate all the landscaping. Our current well would not be able to meet that watering schedule to keep everything alive and growing, thus we would have to drill a new well at an expense of around $75,000.00. This would a "hardship" for our church.
I am asking you to pray that the city will allow us a variance or that we can have a second address for the property to help save our resources. We have seen God working in this move all ready with the planning committee and the city council, we know God will listen to our prayers.
Thank you for your prayers and I will have more in the near future.
Jim Wood