Permit pain - No wonder contractors don't like dealing with permits

[cdr108]

no sympathy here ...
the addition was built without permits, and larger than the one that it was replacing.

read this:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...er_court_order_to_demolish_home_addition.html

this is how the city is wasting $500000 of tax dollars.

then they turn around tell us we need a permit. Why? so they can hassle, after I pay them my taxes? Pay you to harass me? About what I do in my own house?

 

[Riverdale Rink Rat]

no sympathy here ...
the addition was built without permits, and larger than the one that it was replacing.

Eug's perfectly understandable brushes with bureaucracy are not at all like the flouting of the law this article documents.

 

[cdr108]

Eug's perfectly understandable brushes with bureaucracy are not at all like the flouting of the law this article documents.

i concur about Eug's experience, but terrencemorgan's example does not make me shed a tear for them