Forced to pay excessive permit fees

How many of you have built a house or other building? Or maybe you watch those home building or home improvement programs on TV. If either is true, you’re probably familiar with the idea of building permits. While I have many issues with how these permits are frequently used, the case of Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, California, points to excessive fees to control how you use your land.

The use of the permitting process as a means to dictating to people what they can do with their land. As I’ve stated before, using permitting to help ensure that building projects do not deprive others of their rights is justifiable.

However, the permitting regulations, along with their zoning and building codes, have become more about controlling what people do with their land than protecting the actual rights of others.

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