>Which means even the most trivial change requires a variance. That's a feature, not a bug. By forcing even mundane projects to go through a process where app

>Which means even the most trivial change requires a variance. That's a feature, not a bug. By forcing even mundane projects to go through a process where approval depends on the whims of the decision makers they have set themselves up to extract concessions from basically every project on a whim, fast track things they like (often things run by people they like) and stonewall things that they don't (don't get on their bad side if you want their approval in an expedient fashion).