I Want To

Each day I deal with a good number of city and county websites in search of plans, addendums and planholder lists. It is so interesting to me how completely different each website is. Each website I go to I have to try and think what the person who designed that website might be thinking. What was going on in their mind when they set up the website. In most cases I look in their engineering department or public works department; that just seems logically to me given what I’m looking for. Sometimes it is so time-consuming because the information is so “embedded” it is ridiculous. It’s like looking for a needle in a hay stack. Take today for instance. I was looking on the City of Sausalito’s website; where to start, where to start! I checked out City Hall, I found Public Works, I went to the Engineering Division. Nothing……..I was looking for an addendum and just figured they didn’t keep that information on their website. Some cities do, some cities don’t. I rely on Builders’ Exchanges for a lot of that information; slowly but surely however cities are getting up to speed and putting this information on their own websites. Anyway, back to Sausalito an upscale town. I found out that they keep that information under “I Want To”……….who would have thought “I Want To” was the place to look! Who would have thought "I Want To" would be a heading on a city website. I want to.....hummmmm!  I want to eat ice cream, I want to take a nap, I want to own a corvette ......... that's what I want to do!