buildig with permit vs no permit

[tikicarver]

9 months?  I hope not.  I have been hearing of much shorter approval periods, like 3 to 6 months, and less for the pre-approved plans. 

Your concrete example sounds correct though.  It really is a lot to schedule.  And one flakey person can grind things to a halt.  Easier to have fewer people involved.  That is why people pay more money for a general contractor. 

I thought about going unpermitted (or semi-permitted). 
For me, home is the one place you have a right to be.

So I looked at my records.  It took 7 1/2 months to get the permit from the day I bought the plans from Argus
The dates are below..

You can see it took awhile before   Argus's drafter even started on my plans. Then when I got the 1st draft
I saw he did not follow any of the notes I gave to Argus on what I wanted. For example, on the order form I said 9 ft walls
Argus put that on the sheet, but the drafter did not do it.
 So I had to send in notes of the changes needed. That took more time.
so 4 months and 1 week from time I paid for the plans until they were submitted to the Building Dept. I was expecting faster time with a "pre-approved" drawing...

then the next slowup was the county electrical guy would not sign off the permit, he kept saying the code said I had to install electrical.
He was wrong, but it took 4 weeks to get that straighten out. sending notes in EPIC did nothing. I had to go in person to the permit office.
( might have been faster, but I could only get over to the  BI once a month)
 so that is why I say it took 8 month...I'm counting from the day I paid for the plans...until I got the permit in hand....

1/4/23   bought plans from Argus
3/16/23  recieved drasft plans
4/6/23   recieved updated plans
5/4/23   recieved final architect signed plans
5/12/23 permit packet sent in
6/5/23  Land Use review complete
6/30/23 Building Plan Review complete
8/19/23  permit issued