Thank you for perfectly encapsulating a large part of why municipalities can't get anything done for a reasonable price these days. There's a lot of "copy past

Thank you for perfectly encapsulating a large part of why municipalities can't get anything done for a reasonable price these days. There's a lot of "copy paste engineering" that anyone with a little care can do with an acceptable success rate but we prevent them from doing "because liability". So then we go engage the services of an engineering firm which does the copy paste, makes the client sign some boilerplate that disclaims most of the liability anyway and charges a lot of money for the privilege.