Walnut Creek

Home Improvement to Create Jobs

By admin • Dec 25th, 2009 • Category: Pacific heights, Surety Bonds, Walnut Creek

Reporting from Washington – Looking for new ways to help plug the leaky job market, President Obama pressed Congress to provide money to homeowners to improve energy efficiency — and the economy — by replacing doors, caulking windows and padding their attics with more insulation.
Obama admitted that the “idea may not be very glamorous” but [...]



Housing Starts Update

By admin • Sep 22nd, 2009 • Category: Pacific heights, San Francisco Bay Area, Walnut Creek

Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) — Builders in the U.S. broke ground on fewer single-family homes last month as the expiration of the government’s tax credit for first-time buyers approached.
Single-family projects dropped 3 percent, the first decrease since January, while work began on 25 percent more multifamily units such as apartments, figures from the Commerce Department showed [...]



Everyone Needs a Permit…

By admin • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, Walnut Creek

SUBJECT: DEQ File No.97-59-0023; T11N; R10W, Sec. 20; Lycoming County
Dear Mr. DeVries:
It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above referenced parcel of property. You have been certified as the legal landowner and/or contractor who did the following unauthorized activity:
Construction [...]