Morrow - 55075 Monroe St - Trailer Certification1
From:James Wiatrak
Sent:Tuesday, December 18, 2018 8:57 AM
To:Scott Morrow
Cc:Kevin Meredith; AJ Ortega; Jacob Fuson
Subject:RE: Morrow - 55075 Monroe St - Trailer Certification
Good morning Scott,
Sorry I haven’t responded sooner but I have been off since last Friday.
As I understand it, the jobsite trailers were built on site, or nearby, and placed at their current
location. In California, commercial modular structures like those you have there are typically
factory built and bear the insignia of the CA Department of Housing and Community
Development (HCD), the state agency that regulates the construction and certification of factory
built housing and commercial structures.
Your modular structures, have no such HCD insignia nor were they built with a City of La Quinta
building permit to Title 24 standards.
Before we consider moving forward with any electric service, you must first provide the proper,
recognized HCD compliant modular buildings or submit plans and obtain permits, inspections
and approvals for the structures that are currently constructed.
As it stands now, you have unpermitted structures and no use or occupancy will be
allowed. This information should have been posted on the trailers in the last week by our Code
Enforcement team.
Regards,
PLEASE NOTE: City Hall will be
closed from December 24,
2018 through January 1, 2019
in observance of the holidays.
Please plan accordingly for any
business needs that might
need to be addressed during this time frame. We thank you for your understanding and look forward to
seeing you after the New Year!
From: Scott Morrow <scott@morrowmgmt.com>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 7:44 AM
To: James Wiatrak <jwiatrak@laquintaca.gov>
Cc: Steve Lazzarini (slazz2018@gmail.com) <slazz2018@gmail.com>; Danielle Morrow <danielle@morrowmgmt.com>
Subject: Morrow ‐ 55075 Monroe St ‐ Trailer Certification
James “JW” Wiatrak, CBO, CASp
Building Official ◦ ADA Coordinator
Design & Development Department
City of La Quinta
78495 Calle Tampico ◦ La Quinta, CA 92253
Ph. 760.777.7023
jwiatrak@laquintaca.gov
2
Hi JW,
I met with Steve yesterday and we were discussing the challenges we’re having to get our relocated meter pedestal
energized. He mentioned the City is requesting a “state certification” on the trailers. We do not know what that is and
hoping you could help provide some direction. A quick internet search makes it think it’s a DMV issued Permanent
Trailer Identification certification
(https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/?1dmy&urile=wcm:path:/dmv_content_en/dmv/forms/reg/reg4017) but I’m not
sure if this is correct or if there is more to it. We’ve also reached out to Paula and Roy Ziegler who we purchased the
trailers from to see if they have this information. If we have to apply through the DMV I’m not sure how long this could
take.
Is there a possibility that we could energize the relocated meter pedestal and not connect/energize the trailers until the
City receives the requested paperwork? We’re just in a time crunch to get the new pedestal energized so we can
remove the old pedestal, complete the block wall and receive the pool final inspection.
I also want to note that the architect is nearly finished with the plans for the home and intends to submit both the home
and barn to the City early next week. I’m looking forward to checking that one off our list.
I look forward to talking with you soon.
Scott
Scott Morrow
Morrow Management
1130 Via Callejon
San Clemente, CA 92673
949/218‐8400 direct
949/533‐5050 cell
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email including any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or
have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately by return email and delete this message from your system. Any unauthorized copying,
disclosure or distribution of the material in this email is strictly prohibited.