Today I come to you with good news and bad news. The good news is Permit Applications are UP. Hopefully this means the economy is coming around. The bad news is since applications are up so are the review times. Unfortunately many of the jurisdictions have been faced with furlough days, positions not being filled after a retirement or even layoffs. This wasn’t as much of a problem when permits were sparse but now that they have picked up it’s becoming an issue.

The Permit Guy always pushes the permit applications as hard as possible but I can only push so far without upsetting the reviewer and perhaps causing unnecessary delays in the process.

The Permit Guy and all of the Pinecrest permit heroes stay as up to date as possible with all of the building and zoning codes. We are spending some extra time with every permit package, set of architectural drawings, site plan, spec sheets, etc to make sure they are not  missing any plan sheets, signatures and every “T” crossed and “I” dotted. An extra hour in the Permit Cave could save a week or month or more in a permit office where the review times are at the max.

Stay tuned for the next installment….