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Re: When to call it?

Humm...

Last summer I was put through red-tape hell in my quest to construct a covered path to drive my forklift from one building to another. To get a building permit for the "structure", I had to file an engineering study signing off on a no-rise something or another. Cost was only time and money... plenty of both... resulting in the project timeline falling outside of the seasonal norms for such a project, resulting in approx. $10K worth of concrete that is a complete mess and will cost $20K - $30K to fix right. Anyhoo: The powers to be went over my case with a fine tooth comb (or so it seemed). During the process of compiling the documentation to get the project permitted... the engineering firm opted to include some leaning on precidence... being a recently constructed major county project just up stream a few hundred feet from my project, which (said county project) also required said no-rise certification to be on file. Ahem: To put it bluntly, the county's upstream project's no-rise certificate on file seemed to be extremely shallow in substance (appeared to me to be basically a signature).

I guess there's geese and then there's ganders.

<blockquote data-quote="W. Mark Hellinger" data-source="post: 34467" data-attributes="member: 692">Re: When to call it?Humm...Last summer I was put through red-tape hell in my quest to construct a covered path to drive my forklift from one building to another.&nbsp; To get a building permit for the &quot;structure&quot;, I had to file an engineering study signing off on a no-rise something or another.&nbsp; Cost was only time and money... plenty of both... resulting in the project timeline falling outside of the seasonal norms for such a project, resulting in approx. $10K worth of concrete that is a complete mess and will cost $20K - $30K to fix right.&nbsp; Anyhoo:&nbsp; The powers to be went over my case with a fine tooth comb (or so it seemed).&nbsp; During the process of compiling the documentation to get the project permitted... the engineering firm opted to include some leaning on precidence... being a recently constructed major county project just up stream a few hundred feet from my project, which (said county project) also required said no-rise certification to be on file.&nbsp; Ahem:&nbsp; To put it bluntly, the county&#039;s upstream project&#039;s no-rise certificate on file seemed to be extremely shallow in substance (appeared to me to be basically a signature).I guess there&#039;s geese and then there&#039;s ganders.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="W. Mark Hellinger, post: 34467, member: 692"] Re: When to call it? Humm... Last summer I was put through red-tape hell in my quest to construct a covered path to drive my forklift from one building to another. To get a building permit for the "structure", I had to file an engineering study signing off on a no-rise something or another. Cost was only time and money... plenty of both... resulting in the project timeline falling outside of the seasonal norms for such a project, resulting in approx. $10K worth of concrete that is a complete mess and will cost $20K - $30K to fix right. Anyhoo: The powers to be went over my case with a fine tooth comb (or so it seemed). During the process of compiling the documentation to get the project permitted... the engineering firm opted to include some leaning on precidence... being a recently constructed major county project just up stream a few hundred feet from my project, which (said county project) also required said no-rise certification to be on file. Ahem: To put it bluntly, the county's upstream project's no-rise certificate on file seemed to be extremely shallow in substance (appeared to me to be basically a signature). I guess there's geese and then there's ganders. [/QUOTE]

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