> The guy next door gets told flat-out no for a similar
> application.  One day, a refurb permit is a flat $25, the next it's based
on
> square footage for the same space.  We just point and laugh and be on our
> merry way.


These discussions about officialdom always bring to mind the thoroughly
democratic method used here by residents of one Area in the local Regional
District (like a Township in a County) to eliminate the Building Inspector
from their lives.   They found a bylaw that allowed for creation of a
referendum item to be included on the ballot at election time, posted the
proper notices of referendum and then simply successfully voted in a new
bylaw that said no Regional District Building Inspector could enter their
Area (like a township) and that no building permits were, henceforth,
required.   A few years later the neighbouring Area saw the benefits and did
the same.   Strangely, the press have kept very quiet about it all, and this
wonderful application of democratic freedom of empowerment never made news
anywhere beyond the local Areas.

cp in wild bc

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