The insane amount of work to get anything good done due to American bureaucracy is just incredible.
Two years later, he’s still awaiting an approval from the Bureau of Development Services, this one for railings along outside walkways.
It's taking them over two years to approve railings, that should be a week max.
“I was trying to figure out why I couldn’t give the city its $50,000, get my permit, and start building,” Gregory says. “The city completely shut down [for COVID], and I was stuck with a project that needed about an hour of the building department’s time. No one had a single fuck to give.”
Makes me think of this story about the French rail abandoning California
This country is so fucking dysfunctional.
Gregory and others still face Soviet-style bureaucracy two years after a 2021 report by the Portland city auditor sounded the alarm on permitting.
Oh fuck off. The soviets managed to outbuild these fuckers with affordable housing.
Ah the Soviets, known to relentlessly micromanage city codes to increase property values and appease local landlords.
Famously, Soviet style bureaucracy is when nothing ever gets done by the government and American style bureaucracy is when things do get done
Thank goodness for our system of checks and balances
