Connecticut is heavily regulated, at least southwest CT is.
So in order to do almost anything one needs a permit. So people call up and say ‘I need a survey for x reason’.
So I feel the public views my services as a ‘necessary evil’ in order to complete some form on some permit application. Most people won’t get the survey unless the various zoning/engineering departments required it.
I do my best, though, to explain to them why a survey adds value to the property, and most people are surprised by what goes into a survey and how it can benefit them.
Which in the end is a good thing, because we do add value to what they own...
I guess at times I feel like that kid ya had to play with because your mother told you too…lol!
Planned development at it's finest!
Good thing you're not a lawyer.
Where would they be without regulation?
There is no regulation just for the sake of regulation. There is a rhyme, reason and business case for all of it, which is why the "blanket deregulation" notions going around as we just saw with Surveyors in Florida make little sense.
The only thing that's really debatable is whether the results of regulation are worth the burden on industry and effort to implement, and that takes some more serious analysis. In many cases, the public has lost sight of how many advances and societal benefits we have achieved through regulation, to where we now largely take them for granted. For example, we no longer have situations like the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire happening, we no longer have things like the London Cholera outbreak, and so on. We can largely trust most of the products, businesses and services we consume, interact with and otherwise deal with in our day-to-day lives, due to regulation. That was not so much the case in, for example, the 1800s.
The simplistic, ill-conceived and drastically mispopulated spreadsheet that the Floridian congress used in evaluating and analyzing regulatory burden and impact was an outrageous joke, yet it is just the tip of the iceberg on what's going on elsewhere in states and federal government toward blanket deregulation.