RecRoom overview
This web page, RecRoom.html, just created to provide more clarity and easy reading for this project, points to files relevant to this project, starting with RecRoomExpansion_May13.pdf. This is an overview, designed to show our residents, contractor, and architect alike the essential features of this project.

RecRoomExpansion_May13.pdf

Exploring ADA bathrooms
At the outset of this project, Dag developed a bathroom layout as shown in Gym_BR.pdf. I inserted the resulting image in RecRoomExpansion_May13.pdf. My intent with this was merely to show that existing space should be sufficient. Our architect is free to suggest a better solution. Note that this is a public bathroom, used by visiting vendors and craftsmen. A shower is required in support of our pool, which is considered commercial. In our experience, extremely few people use the shower, so please, keep it simple.
With the old setup, one person could use the toilet in the booth, and another shower. No longer. The entire space is one person only.

RecRoom_BR.pdf

Building blueprint details
RecRoomExpansion_more.pdf, focuses on building construction features. Some pages of this file are there to establish that walls in the present RecRoom complex are NOT bearing walls. The file features closeups from the collection of some 110 Menlo Commons construction drawings, which were scanned from blueprints about five years ago. Blueprints shown here relate to Phase II, i.e. Buildings C, D, and E. See the folder Blueprints.

RecRoomExpansion_more.pdf features the file "MC Phase II 06_BldgEplans.pdf" (06) on page 2 of 9. (I added descriptive text such as BldgEplans to the file names.) The detail points to dwg A12, which is MC Phase II 14... (14). This is the blueprint I worked with at first. It is featured on page 5 of 9 in RecRoomExpansion_more.pdf, and repeatedly in the updated file RecRoomExpansion_May13.pdf.

I have discovered that there are two more, very similar, blueprints that may shed more light on electrical, plumbing...? I am not familiar with the symbols. See (40), (45) (duplicates, different exposure), and (55).
Steam room detail on page 6 of 9 came from (19).
File (23) is featured on page 3 of 9, and (26) on page 4 of 9.
Note pic on page 8 of 9. The mini-split compressor I now show in the updated RecRoomExpansion_May13.pdf, page 5 of 6, goes next to the door where the blue recycling bins are -- far from cars. The original idea was to place the compressor close to the corner, next to parked cars.

I was asked for a site plan for the purpose of reviewing access with the city. . MC_landscape_overview.pdf is a file I put together a year ago for landscape planning. Now I see that there are site plans for various purposes. See (01), (47), (56), (63), (64), and (65). Here is hoping one will serve this purpose. (64) seems least cluttered. That is now page 3 in MC_landscape_overview.pdf. Also featured, slightly enlarged for water discussion, MC_DroughtNotes.pdf

Pedro asked about the foundation slab for the purpose of planting posts that will protect the mini-split compressor from cars. I would hope no longer relevant in a more protected location, but see (21) [more detail than 22], (22) and, again, (23).

RecRoomExpansion_more.pdf

Blueprints folder

MC_landscape_overview.pdf

MC_DroughtNotes.pdf

Notes about other features to consider for the RecRoom expansion
Here is a text file of things to review in person; simple things not easy to show in the drawings. DetailsToConsider.txt.

DetailsToConsider.txt

Designer Parisa Aoladi, attached a progress floor plan for our review on Aug 08.
"Based on our plumbing calculations, since the occupancy count is under 50, we can have only one unisex restroom. The new layout has one toilet and a Roll-In type shower, with a little storage for RecRoom. Looking forward for your feedback."
This was good news, though this initial plan featured lots of wasted space. I responded with RecRoom_Parisa.pdf, and Parisa provided a delightful explanation, ParisaExplanation.pdf, which I discussed with her by phone, arriving at a layout close to what I had envisioned. Ann Mueller took over from there.

RecRoom_Parisa.pdf

ParisaExplanation.pdf

Following months of work by our architect/engineer team,
here is the almost final floor plan, that the city almost has approved.
Courtesy of Ann Mueller, who is in charge of the project.
Buildding permit pending, to be followed by proposals by contractors.