C) If so required, you submit a Scenic Site Assessment and your current Contrast Rating, to establish where your property stands currently with respect to the desired optimums established by TRPA.
D) Your Scenic Site Assessment is reviewed by TRPA, and accepted as is, or with corrections as outlined in the correspondence they send to you or your consultant.
E) With your Existing "scenic status" in hand, you proceed with developing your plans for your proposed changes. Your consultants and/or TRPA will advise you what your type of targets you must achieve to meet the requirements. Those may include colors more in harmony with your background, an Architectural design that breaks up or minimizes large areas of facade, or landscaping to screen parts of the structure.
F) You submit your proposed plans with your Scenic Impact Report to TRPA. Obviously, you've taken great care to ensure that that you meet the minimum requirements, making the job of reviewing your submission that much easier. It also helps that one of your consultants is me, who has done a wonderful job of preparing your reports, thus making it easier for TRPA and your designers and other consultants to easily and accurately discuss issues should any questions arise. If so directed, you'll also submit a photo simulation from a vantage point selected by your TRPA Planner.
G) You receive approval from TRPA, and any other agencies (please note that TRPA approvals do not constitute compliance with any other applicable code requirement such as county, state, and federal building codes), and proceed to build, paint, trim, etc.
H) Sit back, breath a sigh of relief, and know that you've done the right thing and protected the value of your lakefront home by ensuring that it's in compliance with one of the more complex regional ordinances.
I) There is not step I, simply because "I" looks too much like the number one, so we don't use it. We don't use "O", "L", "Q", or "Z" either, but we won't get that far today.
J) Enjoy the view, all I see are trees from my house. Don't get me wrong, I love trees! The point is that not all of us are fortunate enough to have a lake front, so the rest of us really hope you're taking full advantage of it and enjoying it.