And by just what authority can Rahm the Ballerina do this? CFA should sue his pansy a**!
In Boston what Menino said he’d do is harrass the hell out of them—the city’s permitting and other bureaucratic crap is what Rahm-crap intends to use. It highlights the tyranny of government bureaucracy and makes it more difficult to take the city to court: “we’s just doin’ our due diligence here, going over your permit applications with a fine tooth comb. Nothing to see here.”
The city’s permit system turns every homeowner into a criminal. They are judge and jury on interpretation of the ordinances, so even though on paper you don’t need a permit as long as renovations simply replace what was already there, they can define any replacement as really doing something new and require a permit. There isn’t a homeowner in Chicago who couldn’t be harrassed out of existence if they wanted to do it to him.
So everyone begs hat in hand, please Mr. Bureaucrat, pretty please, permit me to drive these three nails into that stud over there, please, please.
I see the list of permit applications for my neighborhood on a local “by the block” web search engine. People are applying for permits for the most minor repairs. By ordinance they don’t need a permit but they are scared silly of harrassment and figure it’s cheaper to pay off the city via the permit fee than have the inspector show up and shut down your project.
Practically speaking, they don’t have enough inspectors to do this to everyone, so it becomes simply a system by which someone can sic the city on his enemies.
Or the Mayor High Potentate Crap-Face can sic the city on Chick-Fil-A.
How can you take “basic bureaucratic abuse of power and harrassment” to the Supreme Court???? If anyone can do that, I hope he does it.