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https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2020/02/...and-chain/
...recognized by the business community as a major barrier to economic development ... excessive delays in obtaining permits, lack of outreach and user confusion about how to navigate the system, excessive rounds of reviews requiring permit applicants to re-engineer what they just re-engineered, etc.
The irony (for me, at least) is that County is so often "unable" because "there's no money" -- while planning delays development that would be taxed and/or create jobs, if only it could be completed.
I can only conclude that the system is broken by design. A complex bureaucracy guarantees jobs for the few at the expense of the many.
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I was told by someone at the county that Harry Kim made a statement that: Economic development is not the county's job.
Apparently Harry thinks economic obstruction is the county's job.
Assume the best and ask questions.
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In that case he is being very effective. Maybe he likes managing ever-shrinking budgets.
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Economic development is not the county's job.
Economic development for the public is not County's job.
Why care when the "right people" can always be taken care of by raising taxes?
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If you look closer some projects go zip thru some get the infinite loop to no where.
Last time I looked most of the planing board members or their families were Connected real estate developers or held a large amount of commercial real estate
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Turns out our building department isn't unique or special.
https://missionlocal.org/2020/02/mohamme...-happened/
In fact, the Department of Building Inspection signed a deal with the San Ramon-based cloud- and web-based software company Accela to provide a permit-tracking system that would have eliminated all of these opportunities for cronyism and chicanery.Â
But that was in 2011. And it still hasn’t been completed. The city’s sclerotic process on getting the Accela system up and running was a story five years ago.
Sound familiar?
San Francisco’s cottage industry of well-connected permit expediters — men and women who are paid to shepherd a project through the system — is, in itself, an acknowledgement of failure. It’s an indicator of a labyrinthine setup in which those who can pay for a guide find their way through expediently and those who cannot don’t.Â
But it’s worse than that: Regular folks aren’t condemned to purgatory simply because the system is arcane (though it is) but because its resources are allocated to keeping the connected expediters happy. They get to skip the line; they get their stuff looked at and stamped off. You don’t.
In our current non-system system, expediters can put colorful Post-It notes on their paper plans (paper!), and then walk through the department, spot them sitting on desks, and slip things to the right official behind the counter.Â
Here we call them "consultants".
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Originally posted by PaulW
In that case he is being very effective. Maybe he likes managing ever-shrinking budgets.
Maybe he likes managing ever-shrinking budgets. ?? I suggest the items shrinking in the budgets are citizenry benefits...the taxes/money end NEVER shrinks
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Harry Kim made a statement that: Economic development is not the county's job.
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He is quite successful at eliminating economic development though.
Look at what happened to the thousands of folks that were employed by vacation rentals.
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Look at what happened to the thousands of folks that were employed by vacation rentals.
So the TMT staff should consider themselves lucky that they don't even get to start work?
