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I called a lawyer when the incident happened where I couldn't file the application. I do feel like part of the problem is they don't actually want to give me a

• quesera 6y ago
  > I do feel like part of the problem is they don't actually want to give me anything in writing. That sounds like a reasonable guess to me. If there is some personal animosity, or they have a friend who runs a potential competitor/lost on the purchase bid/etc, or somesuch other corrupt motivations ... then their only real power is to exhaust you. Once you have a live permit application, you're in the system and the legal process takes over. They can still hit you hard on process and code conformity, but it takes greater coordination to do so. Again, good luck. Petty corruption is sometimes the worst kind.
  • pontifier 6y ago
    I found out that they started a tax and allocated about $10M to doing the same things I'm trying to do. They've already put $400k into their business incubator, but it hasn't opened yet. Their science museum kinda sucks, and their "maker space" is a laser cutter tacked onto the incubator as an afterthought. The building I bought is 220,000 sqft and I'm passionate about doing all the things that tax is supposed to pay for, but I didn't know this at the time. If I fail and nobody notices then everything is fine for them. But if I succeed, people might wonder what the tax went to if I don't get some of it, and I'm sure it's all already spoken for. The thing is, I don't even care about that money. I just want to do my own thing without interference.