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Bureaucratic BS is too close to home
It appears a nearby county has gone stark raving nuts and decided they needed to behave like they were in an urban area on one of the coasts.
To top it off they have taken roughly half of the county and decided to institute all sorts of bureaucratic mishmash while leaving the other half of the county to operate like sane people do.
Fellow calls me this morning to ask about helping to get a small tract platted. I do maybe two or three surveys per year in that county but haven’t done one in over a year. He proceeds to tell me about the new dictates that were established in March. After listening to his problems for about 20 minutes I recommended that he move somewhere else to hang out with sane people. It appears that the primary goal is to find new funding sources to support county expenses by gouging the local citizenry with fees on top of fees on top of more fees. He had contacted four other survey firms and three wouldn’t even talk to him about working in that county since the BS was adopted. The fourth is the company that had surveyed the 7+ acre tract about a year ago. The current goal is to cut that into a 3 acre tract and a 4+ acre remainder tract. They told him a number to do what is needed per the BS which was seven times more than what they charged a year ago to create the parent tract before the BS came along.
We left it hanging. Maybe I will do something. Maybe they will cancel their plans and build the new house in a different county. They are that upset.
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