Don't blame me if I can't accept responsibility
New Jersey-ites-ians-whatever the term do not need to worry about me ever purchasing land in New Jersey.
I hear you, I have a home and property in the town that I grew up in and have owned it for almost 34 years. It's an investment property and my tenants pay the taxes, give me profit money and I'm happy with that as I have relocated out of NJ to PA and my drive to the office is only about five minutes different.
I had to look up putting the horse before the cart, and I assume it means doing things wrong or in the wrong order However, that is not the case. People come to you as a professional for opinions and advice. So. I have had cases where making sure setback allowances are met when I forsee there may be trouble.
I also think that having room enough to meet the requirements 10 times over does not require precision. You can have rules and excercise judgement as well. That's how we differ from button pushers, pencil pushers and paper shufflers. Each case requires a separate analysis. There is no one size fits all solution.
That may be the reason there are waivers to the rules. As long as nobody is harmed. That is the point.
As a professional, I don't have a cook book for how I think. I did use a lot of euphemisms though.
Surveyors greatly underappreciate how map illiterate others are, particularly with the concept of map scale. My gripe with Planning is their inability to recognize the need for a two tiered approval process; one for sophisticated developers, and one for the average Joe. Upward mobility in the USA is greatly hampered by myopic rules intended to punish the big bad developers but with little thought of their harm to up and coming business owners. Humans are clever, so it'll always be a game of cat and mouse with any set of rules, but something needs to be done to allow a person to build their small business without tens of thousands of dollars spent just to find out if they can apply for a conditional permit.
