Permit pickup? Not yet!

We arrived at the city planning office 15 minutes before our scheduled time in hopes of cutting down our wait time by signing in early. However, our contractor got to the city planning office 45 minutes before our scheduled time and had already signed in. Overall, we waited about 30+ minutes before sitting down with a city worker...the same one that accepted our project for city review!

The building permit is ready but we have to do a few things before we can pick up.
1) Contractor had to submit his information, including license number.
2) Provide an additional copy of our plans for the county tax assessors office. (Thankfully our contractor had brought his plans so we just submitted those while he got a newly stamped copy of the approved plans.)
3) Complete a special inspection form (done on the spot).
4) Protect the street trees and fax over a Tree Protection form to the city. Once they receive the form, somebody will do a drive-by inspection the day after.
Note: tree protection could've been done before this first meeting with the city to save an extra day of waiting - work can't start until the city verifies our trees are protected.
5) Pay fees (brought our checkbook and did it on the spot).
6) Take a form for School Impact Fees to the local school district office, pay the fees, and bring back a copy back to the city.

After these are all done, then our contractor can go pick up the building permit to start work.

So now, we're only waiting on #4 (contractor's job) and #6 (submitting form to the city).