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Oh Well
Planning departments have rules. Those rules are not all that complicated and most projects involve little more than setbacks. Now since they have rules, they come first and are joined at the hip with the building dept.
Lets say a girl wants to build a patio cover. Go see planning with four sets of your plan, pay $$$.$$, expect an answer in three weeks and we're sorry if it took eight. How about a commercial site that wants to add a trash enclosure, same drill only longer and more expensive. And the list goes on.
When planning fees can cost as much as the patio cover, is there a better way? If the time spent in review by a planner is 10 minutes, why is a three week wait the norm? And please don't tell me that you pay a planner $5000.00 per day.
Ya I know there is overhead. A lot of that has to do with the prime real estate you're on. You and the rest of government aught to occupy vacant storefronts.
Be a real achiever and put a few houses on a property. What happens then? You wait a year or more. You could give the government pick of the litter and be able to afford it if they cut the fee to what it cost and did the 8 hours of review in 8 hours instead of 18 months.
The building dept. can turnaround plans in six weeks yet, a planning dept. review can take 1/36th of the average man's life.
I know of a city that requires an inspection by planning and building before any structure can be sold. The fee was $1000.00. On occasion, the hidden cost was 30 times the fee.
A fixer-upper would run $3 million and a beater could be had for a cool million. $2 million got you my house, located there. "Nice" properties were double digit millions.
There were some fabulous bootleg structures.
A few had me wondering about their effect on Earth's rotation.
One girl had a couple acres of manicured forest and three in-ground spas. Each spa was supplied by two large gas fired pool heaters. All of the equipment was located in a building made of logs. The spas were spread out on the property and hidden among the trees. It took less than ten minutes to heat all three spas. It took a lot longer than that to legalize them and for the money, she could have another spa.
Tiger :devil
If you are a planner and you think I just poked you in the eye.....why yes, yes I did.
Lets say a girl wants to build a patio cover. Go see planning with four sets of your plan, pay $$$.$$, expect an answer in three weeks and we're sorry if it took eight. How about a commercial site that wants to add a trash enclosure, same drill only longer and more expensive. And the list goes on.
When planning fees can cost as much as the patio cover, is there a better way? If the time spent in review by a planner is 10 minutes, why is a three week wait the norm? And please don't tell me that you pay a planner $5000.00 per day.
Ya I know there is overhead. A lot of that has to do with the prime real estate you're on. You and the rest of government aught to occupy vacant storefronts.
Be a real achiever and put a few houses on a property. What happens then? You wait a year or more. You could give the government pick of the litter and be able to afford it if they cut the fee to what it cost and did the 8 hours of review in 8 hours instead of 18 months.
The building dept. can turnaround plans in six weeks yet, a planning dept. review can take 1/36th of the average man's life.
I know of a city that requires an inspection by planning and building before any structure can be sold. The fee was $1000.00. On occasion, the hidden cost was 30 times the fee.
A fixer-upper would run $3 million and a beater could be had for a cool million. $2 million got you my house, located there. "Nice" properties were double digit millions.
There were some fabulous bootleg structures.
A few had me wondering about their effect on Earth's rotation.
One girl had a couple acres of manicured forest and three in-ground spas. Each spa was supplied by two large gas fired pool heaters. All of the equipment was located in a building made of logs. The spas were spread out on the property and hidden among the trees. It took less than ten minutes to heat all three spas. It took a lot longer than that to legalize them and for the money, she could have another spa.
Tiger :devil
If you are a planner and you think I just poked you in the eye.....why yes, yes I did.
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