I hate some clients. Side note, the site I'm working on was an old small time grocer when I was a kid. I'd ride my bike there and by nickel candy. Anyway, this old little building is now a private K-12 Christian school, though most of the kids are primarily elementary students with a total of 30 kids max. I'm doing a concept plan for them and what they want. New parking, a full size basketball court (the site will be fenced, so they're building a full basketball court for a handful of young kids). This also means a driveway that loops around their site, an update to their stormwater = a large pond, and they lose part of their working site since a large chunk of the property they currently use is actually CSX (railroad) property. All shit comes up to code once you fuck with old property.
So here's what is going to happen: I'm going to do it, get their buy off, and we'll proceed with the plans, permitting, etc. And they'll see the reality of what they're being warned about but won't accept, which is they can't fucking afford this. Either the entire thing gets scrapped or they reduce it down to almost nothing and all their dreams get smashed by the reality that people won't do shit for free just because you're a church or in this case, a Christian school. And they'll have wasted a decent amount of money in the process.