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Navigating Permits and Inspections

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Dissed by The Building Inspector! #fail

What happens here

The contractor reviews the project's permits, revealing a significant cost disparity: the natural resources permit (for silt fence and erosion control) incurred a $554 inspection fee, whereas the actual building demolition permit cost only $98. He expresses frustration over the high fee for inspecting a temporary silt fence, particularly since the job site is already within an excavation and behind a retaining wall, with the silt fence not even fully staked. He critiques the system in a small town charging such high fees for minimal oversight.

Goal: Understand and comply with local permitting and inspection requirements.

Tools and materials

  • Permit documents Apple Valley — Paperwork detailing official permissions, regulations, and associated fees for the project

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well we're off to a good start jason's bleeding he's working worked about 13 seconds so i got him checking the pre-check and uh while he's doing that there's something i want to show you probably oh yeah this is something i'm going to show you this this is interesting this is interesting so let's cover up the address now as we look at this that is right there 554 and take a guess what that's for that 554 dollar permit fee is just for silt fence and erosion inspections it's not for the job you want to see what the job fee is the job the job fee on this project is 98 so the actual permit to do the deconstruction of the swimming pool is 98. but they charge 550 to come out and inspect a silt fence and that's on every single job and we're not in a big town this is not a big town this is a little tiny town so you want to talk to me about what i feel is a waste of money geez so let me so we're here's the best part there's the silt fence and we're up we're down in a hole behind a retaining wall we don't have it spiked in and we told the guy look you know we're it's not going to rain we're going to be here for a day they're charging us 550 to do this and he's like well if there he's going to come out and he's going to inspect it you can probably see him in just a few minutes because i'm going to film him and he he warned us that if he saw any sediment in the neighbor's yard we're going to have to come back and figure out a way to shovel that back over the fence so we have two permits the one to do the job is only 98 dollars but the one inspect that piece of silt fence is 550. jesus yeah that's crazy that just that torques me it is ignition but as it doesn't have a key for the ignition

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