More on the building permit moratorium, with a demolition chaser.

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The discussion continues: Is John Gonder’s proposed moratorium on building permits the best way to address drainage problems, or in this effort to mollify flooded homeowners, is he unwittingly providing Dan Coffey and Coffey’s obstructionist council faction the opportunity to usurp the roles of the various boards and commissions, and try to bring all economic development decision-making “into” an underachieving council woefully unequipped to make such judgments?

I encourage readers to visit CM Gonder’s blog and read the comments made yesterday, including one excerpted here by Dan Chandler that addresses a different, but similar ongoing issue:

Dry Out Time Out (comments section)

I’m not taking a position on whether a moratorium is the best way to address permitting issues. I do want to note that problems with permits are not limited to sewer issues.

For example, two weeks ago the city issued a demolition permit for a building on E. Market St. The problem is that the building is a contributing structure in a local historic district, or was, until it was demolished several days later. The Historic Preservation Commission neither received an application for, nor approved a Certificate of Appropriateness to demolish the century-old structure.

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