Always get a permit before beginning any construction project. Its for safety reasons.
We have to follow the rules in this country, and we don’t, we pay the price.
Improving one’s home is commendable but procedures have to be followed.
oh be quiet.
Is there any limit beyond which the government cannot go to protect us from ourselves?
Ripping the ramp out may have saved them a lot of trouble down the road. Their insurance carrier would not have looked kindly on even a minor improvement like this if it was done without a required building permit.
To say that correctly, pinch your nose shut to get a nasally sissy voice like the teachers pet.
Should a building permit be required before assembling a swing-set kit in your back yard?
After all, improperly-tightened bolts could lead to structural failure and serious injury or death.
Of a child!
When localities require permits to figuratively change an electrical receptacle, they invite indiscretions on home projects.
It’s like Ann Rand’s saying about govt making so many laws (and rules) such that even innocent people are guilty (or words to that effect).
Permit??? I’m glad I live in Indiana, in the country, away from big city idiots. My sister lives in King George County VA- she can have it. We got the official permits when we built our house and that’s the last permit we ever got to do anything on our property.
Don't drink and post.
Make you pay to do the improvement so they can raise your taxes afterword.
Those of a totalitarian bent love rules.
BS. This was local bureaucracy pushing its power and incompetence.
NO IT ISN’T FOR SAFETY REASONS. It’s for TAX reasons. Yes, they DO want the permit fee. But what they REALLY want is a way to declare your project an increase in the value of your property, so they can raise your tax assessment; which many of them do ANNUALLY any more.
And cash for the local government's coffers.
I think it's mostly about taxes and fees. Why do people need a permit to paint their damn house!!!
You’ve lived in Kalifornicatia too long. A well-built w/c ramp???
Come on! (eyeroll)
Permits are NOT “always for safety reasons.” There is often no real issue of safety at all, albeit some bean counter could contrive a fake one if pressed. They are sometimes simply revenue generating mechanisms.
Your comments provoke a violent reaction by me.
I would like to think your remark is sarcasm and would give you benefit of doubt but a construction permit for safety reasons? Maybe in some cases but my general reaction is BULL SPIT!
I live in the country, we don’t have permits so far, my projects are built to code, accepted practice, sound engineering and good sense without any help from meddling mindless gubment inspectors. Furthermore, if anyone is hurt it will be me and my family or visitors. I have a much greater interest in making things right than any inspector. I strongly suspect that the fellow who built the wheelchair ramp for his 91 year-old mother did not cut corners in his construction. He is, after all, a tradesman and should be at least over 60.
Attitudes underlying the comments made by yourself are the reason we got to the police state we live in now where reasonable solutions to problems can’t be worked out, “we have to follow the rules”. Either that or you are a licensed builder who wants to protect a monopoly enforced by codes. Taken to the extreme, and it can be and often is, one would be required to get a building permit to construct a flower bed on his own property.
We may need to follow standards to protect the public and to prevent eyesores in the community but we don’t need mindless conformity to every equally mindless rule and law that comes along. Some things are meant to be questioned and even disobeyed and everything but the strictest principles of morality and ethics is negotiable.
Whatever happened to “a man’s home is his castle”. If I choose to risk **MY** safety, why is that YOUR business ??
Always get a permit before beginning any construction project. Its for safety reasons.
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TRUE!! to a point.
Like saying the red light & speed zone cameras are for ‘safety’.
If they were for ‘safety’ 10 (give or take) points would be attached to your DL and if you drove suspended may do a stretch in the County facility.
When people ‘catch on’ and start obeying the rules, the town/county has to make up for its investment by shortening the light span or put the cameras on hair triggers.
So, basically nothing more than a money making scheme, those that can ‘afford’ it keep going, those that can’t end up in more trouble as the ‘fines keep doubling’ etc