Is your city's permitting process difficult? The Tel Aviv Municipality (Israel) permitting system is much, much worse.
"'But there's one hour for receiving the public in the morning, which you can sign up for at 4 A.M. at the entrance to the administration - and wait. Having no alternative, I've gone there - like lots of other people - many times at that hour. You go crazy every time you go there, and I have no idea whether they do this out of nastiness or for some other reason.'... The engineering administration is considered archaic, complicated and even vengeful. Getting a simple permit - for example to build a room on the roof or change the purpose of business premises - can drag on for many months and sometimes years."
Thanks to ArchNewsNow.com
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