[eyeamok]

local governments want to impose high development fees and extract concessions from developers to pad city coffers and get others to pay for their priorities.

I should have my Grading permit within a couple weeks, filing for building as soon as I get it. By the time I have all the Necessary Permits in Los Angeles County to put a Normal House on My 10 Acres, I will have spent $50,000. JUST IN PAPERWORK!

[hanamizu]

I will have spent $50,000. JUST IN PAPERWORK!

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Just to cheer you up a bit. The county I live in in Missouri requires no paperwork whatsoever to build a house on my own property. To coin a phrase, “We don’t need no steenking permits.”