all i can do now is laugh -- Permit related.

[hereonceagain]

So my husband took the day off to be home for the permit guy. I called Jose, the permit guy, at 7 AM, as they told me I could to confirm. He confirmed he'd come early. Great.

The permit office insisted we had to have someone home so they can check inside our house for the bottom part of the solatube. My husband waited...and waited.... and then he looked outside and noticed one of our ladders was moved. He was thinking an inspector may have come to look on the roof.

So I log in online and see Jose came already, and didn't knock on our door. He signed off on our ROOF.... not the solatube!!!!!!!! urgh!!!!!!!!

I called the city and they said "how do you expect we can help you when the inspectors are out in the field?". I'm now just going to wait until next week after the holidays to reschedule another visit.

At least I was able to laugh about it today and not cry.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Derp.

[wawa]

Wow.

If it makes you feel any better, the permitting process is a pain in the ass like this on every level. It's not just you.

MH just spent a ridiculously hectic day personally badgering people, including hand delivering plans from one department to another and then standing over somebody while they signed off on a form in order to get a permit approved for a client. This is on a huuuuuuuge commercial construction project.

there's just something about putting people behind a desk that says "permits" that melts their brains I think.

[emisi]

Nov 21, 2012 15:01:55 GMT -5 hereonceagain said:

I called the city and they said "how do you expect we can help you when the inspectors are out in the field?". I'm now just going to wait until next week after the holidays to reschedule another visit.

At least I was able to laugh about it today and not cry.

Well, there's this awesome new invention that allows you to call people when they AREN'T NEAR A LANDLINE. I think they're called... "cellphones"?

What a lame excuse. Good job, permits department.

[pitterwoo]

wow, glad you can laugh but that's probably because your brain has exploded. I know mine would have with that shit. Especially taking a day off. Arrrgh!

[auntie]

I think the permit desk is how some communities provide employment for their village idiot.

My favorite permit story-

I had an Eagle Scout candidate who decided to build a sign and erect two small flag poles in front of his small town church. He met with the church people and got their blessing on design and set out with his dad to obtain the necessary permit to procede.

The woman at the permit desk said he would need to have it approved at the monthly meeting of the Building Code Committee. He waited 3 weeks and attended plans in hand. They gave him conditional approval and sent him to the Traffic Management Committee which met in two weeks. He visited them and was next sent to the HARB to vet his design for aethetics; they made changes and sent him back to the Building Code Committee which met the next week. Again the BCC gave conditional approval and sent him to the Shade Tree Commission which met the next week. The Shade Tree people blessed his plans and sent him back to BCC which met in 3 weeks.

I can understand that the t's need to be crossed and the i's dotted, but this was ridiculous. These various committees and commisions were all comprised of the same 3 stooges. I still don't understand why they couldn't just sit down and consider the plan in one trip.

[hereonceagain]

Auntie, lol!!! That is crazy!!!!