Rebuilding Coffey Park; The Efforts and The Down Falls

October 2017 has forever changed Sonoma County as we know it. The Tubbs fire’s damage and resonating effects have reached further than just destroying homes, businesses, and land throughout the County. Flash forward to present day- we have the community rebuilding efforts in the works, but the Community still deals with the agonizing choice of whether to rebuild after losing everything. As if deciding to rebuild isn’t hard enough, now choosing when, or waiting too long to rebuild has consequences in itself. 

​The Newest Obstacle for Coffey Park

What if your neighbor to the right chose to raise their foundation two feet higher than yours, while the neighbor to the left decided a three-foot increase was what they wanted to do. That creates a grading problem. Many new subdivisions have one civil engineer designing all the grading, drainage, and pad heights, however, Coffey Park has many civil engineers performing design on individual lots, as well as many different builders and their finished design. 

Driving through the affected areas of Coffey Park that have started foundations, and even some homes that are already up, have a repeating issue – the FFE (Finished Floor Elevation) is off, in some cases significantly more than their neighbors FFE. 

How can this be avoided moving forward? The answer is project engineers, contractors, and builders performing assessments of the surrounding parcels in the field and with the City’s permit records before completing design and moving to construction. BC Engineering Group performs these assessments to ensure their clients receive a design product that can be practically built with the surrounding conditions and with efficient value. 

Planning Your Rebuild Development Project 

The BC Engineering Group staff currently has over 300 fire-related projects in all stages of the rebuilding process. As a leading Civil Engineering design firm, feel free to reach out to us with any questions you may have regarding the first steps to beginning the new chapter in rebuilding and our efforts to help rebuild the community. Take advantage of our experience and contact us today for your rebuild development needs, we are here to help.
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