After reading Mike Pallamary's recent articles on the after the fact billing issues by San Diego I started to question what the permit granting authorities are doing in my neck of the woods.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/nov/21/city-catching-building-permit-bills/
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/mar/30/building-fees-getting-collected-late/
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jul/04/audit-finds-mistakes-city-permit-charges/
They are slowing everything down. It was slow in these parts before, now we're moving to a crawl.
Do others see this? Are any permit granting authorities actually streamlining? This could dangerously turn political, so with your responses, do what I did, re-read them and use that delete key.
Heck no! In fact, if anything they have slowed down to stretch things out to look like they're keeping busy to justify their existence.
I agree with Dave. It amazes me how much slower they have gotten considering that they have maybe 1/20 of the workload they had in 2005. And they claim that they need more staff!
> I agree with Dave. It amazes me how much slower they have gotten considering that they have maybe 1/20 of the workload they had in 2005. And they claim that they need more staff!
Very typical of certain departments. When I working in Underground Storage Tank Permitting, they were six weeks behind for about 10 years (6 weeks until they opened your submitted plans). The workload would vary wildly depending on the economy and rule changes and cold/snows, but the 6 week delay was the one constancy.
Slow here too...
Well I guess we're not special here.