They could always do like a lot,of different gigeconomy startups and completely ignore the law in the start, and afterwards lobby to have it legalized.
That doesn't work. You can't get hook ups to power, water, & sewer without the right permits. The police or sheriff absolutely will be dispatched to halt your construction if you try this.
Hah, depending on municipalities, utility companies themselves will outright refuse without having the permits from the municipality being presented. In my area for example, not only do you need municipal permits, you must also show a inspection certificate by licensed electrician for new installs.
The paperwork must be filed with the utility before they will even assign an utility engineer to do the review on their end for a new connection (they need to check the local area can sustain every new connection, even if its superfluous) and only then assign a linemen to make connections.
No police or sheriff required. Utilities want absolutely no financial liability because some moron DIYed his electrical and it burned down the neighborhood.
They don't fuck around because utilities do get sued for any actual fault on their part since they are a even bigger, fatter money target than a developer.
I wouldn't be willing to dump a significant chunk of my wealth into a structure built by a company who makes a point to ignore building codes and zoning laws.
"What do you mean their house imploded like a submarine"
Heh, also it seems tech side doesn't know what a certificate of occupancy is. Or what banks will give loans on. Or what insurance companies will cover.
It all depends on the area things were built in. I don't know if bank loans were involved, but a bunch of houses in Southern Spain burned down in a forest fire. The insurance refused to cover because the paper work for the buildings got accepted due to corruption. Those areas were not legal to build in.
This is true, but the only reason Uber could get to a large size was that local governments (mostly) ignored it for a while, often over the protests of taxi companies. With building, they are more likely to come down, hard, on the very first building that isn't up to code, if it's done by a newcomer (existing incumbents might get away with it longer).
People do this. A friend works with permitting and theough him I hear some stuff. There's this one developer that regularly sells houses before the permits have been granted. Really puts pressure on the municipality to approve, now that there are specific people that will be impacted if they don't.
That works until the developer finally fucks up and the municipality gets sued for approving it.
There's a town where I live in NY that is on the hook for basically spending millions on pumping the water table yearly because back in the 70s they idiotically approved development of a few neighborhoods when the water table was at a record low due to a drought and the entire area is up against a water table connected lake. No surprise post-drought, all those houses were getting permanently flooded since the area simply cannot sustain houses with basements.
Last news in recent years is the flooding is shifting so they are on the hook to build yet another pump station as long as those original houses still exist.
This is normal. It isn't about the permits as much as the banks. The banks like to know that many of the lots are sold before lending you money to start putting in the roads: it ensures that much of the loan will be paid off. In turn the builders buying those lots like to have some of the lots sold.
Municipalities generally will approve this as they will get the tax money from the development. (and frankly they shouldn't generally have the power to stop development in their limits - YIMBY and all that)
Where does he live? I'd like to move there. I've never met a planning department that gave two shits about the people their recalcitrant approval processes would impact.
Go hang out at bars in more rural areas, you'll find the ones that are lax and look the other way.
Also note that this stuff may work for "people who are known" and not newbies - the inspector knows this builder is "good for it" and it's "all just paperwork that gets resolved".
Or go to Wyoming, I hear they basically don't have building permits lol.
Sounds like it’s mostly insults. He’s banned from a municipality for punching a planner in the face. I mean, he’s not a nice guy, but he's a niche celebrity.
The one thing the government does usually enforce is construction laws, not always depending on the municipality but usually. You'll be shutdown by force within a day. It's why any business that renovates in NYC papers over their windows, because if an inspector is able to see anything wrong through the windows, you will be shut down even if you are a multi-billion dollar company.
